About the Portal

Community Engagement Portal: Focus Ukraine documents the efforts of iSchool faculty, students and their partners in supporting Ukrainian librarians.

Our work began in 2022, responding to the full scale invasion on Ukraine. Our initiatives include fundraising, book and technology donations, awareness raising and dissemination of information about the experiences of Ukrainians during wartime via symposia, publishing, working with the press, and thematic programming, including our traveling exhibit of Ukrainian children’s art and poetry about the war. We also raise awareness about the significance of public libraries during the war.  

We welcome partnerships and projects for our Ukrainian colleagues. 
Our fundraiser aims to restore Braille books of Kherson Regional Library 

Children's drawing. At the top, there is a sun rising over water. The bottom left is a bright happy peaceful scene of a girl wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes outside with a dog, next to a berry bush. On the right side is a dark sad war-torn scene of a girl holding a doll hiding in a small room by candlelight while missiles drop overhead.

My life: before and after—  Anastasiia P, Age 9

 Our fundraiser supports literacy for Ukrainian children.
Children in village library. Help us support village libraries in Ukraine.