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ON THE FRONTLINE WITH THOSE HELPING UKRAINE

As war has raged in Ukraine we have been working with the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) – the global membership organisation for more than 100 street papers – to understand what is happening there and what the network can do to help people living in the country.

Historically there have been five street papers active in Ukraine in recent years although none of them are currently publishing a magazine and most of them haven’t for some time.

We heard from aid workers at the organisation Narodna Dopomoha, based in the western Ukrainian city Chernivtsi, near the border with Romania. The organisation was previously linked to street paper , published in the capital city Kyiv. It has been working with internally displaced people in Ukraine since the conflict

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