Dear friends, colleagues, partners. The team of the International Association "Eurostrategy" wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We wish you peace, prosperity, good health and a festive mood! Warmth and well-being to you and your family!

On December 11, the Forum “Child and youth friendly community: Awarding of Communities - Candidates” took place in Kiev. The honorary status of “Candidate 2018. Child and youth friendly community” was given to 11 municipalities-leaders, who first fulfilled the conditions and prepared the necessary package of documents.

November 30, 2018, Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov reported to to the results of last year, about the transformations in the infrastructure, transport, social, cultural and educational spheres in Odessa.

On November 26-27, within the framework of the implementation of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiative “Child and Youth Friendly Community”, the Eurostrategy visited the city of Kamyanets-Podilsky, Khmelnitsky region. At the meeting there were representatives of the executive committee, namely the deputy mayor, representatives of the departments: information support and media relations, Department of Education and Science, services for children, youth and sports, services for children, Department of Humanitarian Policy, Center for Services for Children, Family and Youth, NGO “Institute of the Republic”, PO “Student government K -PNU named I. Oleynik.

The last municipality during a business trip in the east of Ukraine in the framework of the implementation of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiative “Child and Youth Friendly Community” for the Eurostrategy was the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region. On November 21, a meeting was held with representatives of the executive committee of the Mariupol City Council, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Social Protection.

November 20, Eurostrategy held another working meeting in the framework of the implementation of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiative “Child and Youth Friendly Community” with representatives of the executive committee of the Illinivska ATH, Konstantinovsky district, Donetsk region.

On November 19, the Eurostrategy held working meetings within the framework of the implementation of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiative “Child and Youth Friendly Community” with representatives of two communities: Novopskovsk, Lugansk regions and the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk regions. Municipalities have already passed the first stage of the initiative implementation, namely, they have done a situational analysis and prepared an analytical report “On the state of ensuring the rights of children and youth”.

On November 14 - 16, a conference was held in Kiev with the partners of the GIZ project «Fit for Partnership with Germany» “Practical approaches to creating effective information products”.