Starlink satellite internet platforms from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and international partners have arrived to media workers in three regions of Ukraine.
Illia Suzdaliev, the coordinator of the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers network of the NUJU, has said about it.
He noted that thanks to the Swiss partners of the Union, the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers in Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Dnipro now have Starlink, and therefore can be in constant communication.
“Many journalists, including displaced persons, will be able to come to the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers and be in touch in any weather or situation,” Illia Suzdaliev noted. And he added that NUJU is grateful for the support of the Swiss non-profit organization Fondation Hirondelle and the International Institute for Regional Media and Information (IRMI, Ukraine), received as part of the project called Increasing the Sustainability of Ukrainian Media, financed by Swiss Solidarity.
Those in the Dnipro Journalists’ Solidarity Center have received technical assistance they call a significant enhancement.
“Besides, it gives additional opportunities. Colleagues will be able to come to us to work if the lights are turned off in the editorial office or at home or the Internet disappears,” says Natalia Nazarova, the coordinator of the Center.
According to Valentyna Manzhura, the co-coordinator of the Zaporizhzhia Center, the equipment received from benefactors will be useful, in particular, to resettled journalists.
“These gifts will help the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers to work more actively,” the Zaporizhia Center emphasizes.
As earlier reported, the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers are an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO. The initiative is designed to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological and other types of assistance.
Contacts:
Call Journalists’ Solidarity Centerin in Ivano-Frankivsk – 066 677 0726 (Viktoriya Plakhta, the coordinator of the Ivano-Frankivsk Center), address: 25, Sichovykh Striltsiv Street.
Call Journalists’ Solidarity Centerin in Zaporizhzhia – 096 277 5352 (Natalia Kuzmenko, Valentyna Manzhura, co-coordinators of the Zaporizhia Center), address: 152, Sobornyi Lane.
Call Journalists’ Solidarity Centerin in Dnipro – 050 919 8479 (Natalia Nazarova, the coordinator of the Dnipro Center), address: 8, Starokozatska Street.
NUJU information service
