Stories

Understanding Each Other: Between “Shame on You” and “Try Again” — How Children Learn to Live in Switzerland and Ukraine...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk The magazine Journal B published an article by journalist and media coordinator of the USB Association,...

Understanding Each Other: When the universe responds to the call of the heart...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk The magazine *Journal B* has published an article titled “When the Universe Answers the Call of...

Integration as a Shared Responsibility How a New Approach to Working with Migrants Is Taking Shape in Basel...

Text: Olena Krylova In Basel, integration is increasingly discussed not as a service or a set of measures for...

“Ukrainian Wave” on Radio RaBe in Bern: When the Voice of Ukraine Resounds in the Heart of Switzerland...

A year ago, the Ukrainian language was heard for the first time on the Bern-based radio station RaBe –...

Two Years of “Resilience” in Thun: A Space Where Strength and Love Are Born...

Text: Svitlana Manzer The psychological club “Resilience” celebrates its second anniversary. Two autumns ago, thanks to the support of...

Bozhena Trubich: “I will always sing, no matter where I am”...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk From Lviv to Switzerland Fourteen-year-old Bozhena Trubich now lives in Switzerland, but her heart still belongs...

“Music Is My Prayer”: The Story of 17-Year-Old Musician Alina Pohribna...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk Alina Pohribna is a musician from Kharkiv who now lives near Zurich. She plays the cello...

“Nobody Owes You Anything”: The Story of Tetiana Shepitko and a New Start in Switzerland....

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk From Civil Service to Hotel Cleaning Tetiana Shepitko comes from the Odesa region. In Ukraine, she...

Understanding Each Other: “Between Coffee, Croissants and Precision: Time through the Eyes of Ukrainians and Swiss”...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk A new column by Ukrainian journalist and media coordinator of the “USB” Association, Svitlana Prokopchuk, for...

Migration: Tips on How Openness, Support, and Conscious Choice Can Transform Trauma into Experience and Loss into New Strength...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk A New Life – Like Adolescence Moving to another country ranks among the top five most...

From Social Assistance to Employment: How USB Is Opening Doors for Ukrainian Women in Bern...

Text: Svitlana Manzer For many Ukrainian women who arrived in Switzerland with Status S, the path to employment is...

Small Feet, Big Steps: The Children’s Dance Studio That Grew from One Volunteer’s Passion...

Text: Olena Krylova In Burgdorf, twice a week, a room fills with the particular energy of small children discovering...

En pointe in a new city...

By Olena Krylova Young professional dancers from Ukraine have opened a studio where three-year-olds take their first ballet steps...

Lyubov Kulyk launches photography courses and workshops in Bern in collaboration with USB...

Text: Olena Krylova Life through the lens “A hair dryer and a camera are two things I took with...

“RAV doesn’t force you to work anywhere”: A Ukrainian woman’s experience of finding a job in Switzerland...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk An accidental journey to Switzerland The war began in Poland when Daria Mazurok found herself in...

How to find a job in Switzerland: the experience of a Ukrainian with a management background in cooperation with Rav...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk Oleksandr Nych came to Switzerland more than two years ago. He is a finance specialist by...

Emotions as a resource: Ukrainian woman in Switzerland, in partnership with USB, launches training on emotion management...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk From Lviv region to the canton of Fribourg Iryna Tikhonova has been living in Bösingen, canton...

Volunteering changes lives and opens up new opportunities: the story of Marina Bondarenko...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk “I went from fear to inspiration — says artist Maryna Bondarenko. — And found the ground...

Understanding each other: “Two hundred years of struggle for rights: the historical path of women in Ukraine and Switzerland”...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk New column by Ukrainian journalist, media coordinator of the USB Association Svitlana Prokopchuk “Two hundred years...

“Life on Swiss Time”: Ukrainian journalist writes book about Switzerland, read in Australia, Turkey, and Poland...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk When Alla Boyko – journalist, professor, doctor of philological sciences, previously a lecturer at the Taras...

Aurika Ivashko: “I decided that this is not the end, but a challenge”...

Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk The story of a Ukrainian woman from Biel, who not only did not lose herself after...

Ukrainian teenagers on the air of Swiss radio Rabe: the voice of truth about war and childhood under shelling...

As part of the program “Ukrainian Wave” on radio Rabe, members of the USB Association Media Club took part...