The Coordination Center of the Ukrainian Football Association has launched a project to help internally displaced children called "Open Football Lessons" in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast picked up the baton of preparatory training sessions on Western Ukraine, following Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Lviv, Uzhhorod and Ternopil. A seminar in Chernivtsi is planned next.

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On April 21, a training session for local volunteers of the "Open Football Lessons" project took place in the office of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Football Association. The seminar was held in a hybrid format – with participation from the national coordinator of the project from UFA Yevheniy Stolytenko and also online participation by leading instructors Viktor Tvardovskyy, Serhiy Chesheyka, Lianna Kopilova, Yuriy Lutsenko and Oleksii Lazarenko.

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National coordinator of "Open Football Lessons," Yevheniy Stolytenko, presented the project and acquainted everyone with the schedule for conducting classes with children. After this, through the Zoom platform, well-known instructors – distinguished teachers of Ukraine, psychologists – worked with seminar participants based on video practical sessions. They paid special attention to technical games and various types of football games, developmental games, work at health lifestyle corners and a psychologist's corner, as well as introducing the CSP approach "Community/Sport + School + Police" into school events for children and their parents.

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"Open Football Lessons" is a project to help internally displaced children who have moved to Western Ukraine due to the war. It is currently being implemented in seven regions: Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi. The project consists of two parts. The first part involves providing urgent humanitarian aid to families of internally displaced persons (this includes medicines, foodstuffs, and non-food items). The second part is conducting psychosocial events for children – both boys and girls – in the format of football festivals. Our goal is primarily to unite internally displaced children with local ones, help them integrate and socialize through mass football, and better adapt to their new environment. We are now preparing volunteers who will work on this project. We provide them with the necessary equipment for it," noted Yevheniy Stolytenko in his speech.