Safe-space zones
The organization provides representatives of the MSM/LGBTQ community with special safe-space areas, where visitors can receive consultations from a social worker, receive psychological assistance, attend group events, informational and educational activities, and leisure activities.
The photo currently shows such a save-space zone in the city of Lviv based on the principle of a Community Center for LGBTIQ+ communities.
To strengthen the leadership potential of LGBTIQ+ communities and to promote development and resocialization, in particular of IDPs, our NGO operates community centers that provide a wide range of services, including:
– group information and educational activities, leisure activities,
– professional courses for those looking for a job or learning a foreign language,
– peer-to-peer social consultations,
– professional medical consultations,
– group psychotherapeutic activities and individual consultations with a psychologist (in person or online),
– professional trainings,
– provision of humanitarian aid,
– saliva rapid tests for HIV are provided for self-testing,
– targeted referral to other ALLIANCE.GLOBAL projects is carried out, in particular, to receive paralegal assistance, to conduct rapid testing for HIV, viral hepatitis and syphilis, to receive pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV PrEP, and to provide other public health services;
– assistance is provided in registering as IDPs, referral to employment centers, in restoring lost documents, in obtaining other social services;
– community centers work as “points of invincibility” when there are problems with electricity and communication, and when everything is fine – there you can always charge your mobile phones, drink hot tea and chat with others, use the Internet.
How can I contact or get information about the work and events of our community centers?
1. Community Center “Menspace” in Dnipro (operating for 5 years):
Coordinator: Dmytro Ponomarenko, dponomarenko@ga.net.ua
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MenSpace.dp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliance.global.menspace
2. Alliance.Global Lviv Community Center (operating since September 2022):
Coordinator: Vadim Prizenko, vpryzenko@ga.net.ua
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlGlobalLviv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliance.global.lviv
3. Alliance.Global Chernivtsi Community Center (based on our shelter since May 2022):
Coordinator: Volodymyr Prokofiev, vprokofiev@ga.net.ua
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alliance.global.cv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliance.global.cv
4. Alliance.Global Kharkiv Community Center:
Coordinator: Vasyl Malikov, vmalikov@ga.net.ua
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alliance.GlobalKharkiv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliance.global_kharkiv
5. Alliance.Global Poltava Community Center (operating since mid-February 2023):
Coordinator: Vitalii Korzh, vitalii.kot.1972@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090929553262
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliance.global.poltava