Social support centers
RE:UKRAINE
COMMUNITY HUBS
RE:Ukraine Community Hubs are centers of interaction and recovery where citizens can receive administrative services and physical and psychological rehabilitation consultations.
MISSION
To form a recovery and reintegration program for Ukrainian society on the local community level.
VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
People first
Focus on the individual needs of each person with regard to their special requirements, age, gender identity and other factors.
Comprehensive approach
A combination of medical, psychological, social and educational services for harmonious recovery.
Cooperation with the community
Active community engagement in the hub’s work, volunteer, local organizations and business participation.
Transparency and openness
Informing the community about the hub’s operations, a transparent reporting mechanism for donors and partners.
FUNCTIONS
Administrative and social services
At the Community Hub, visitors will be assisted with issues related to the status of internally displaced persons and the consequences of hostilities and provided with various administrative services. The site will include offices of case managers who will provide consultations, a library, and a hall for events.
Recovery
The center will offer a workspace for rehabilitation initiatives, both physiological and psychological. Here visitors will get initial consultations, develop a plan for further treatment, or undergo the necessary procedures.
IDP Housing
RE:Ukraine Housing's residential sections will provide comfortable short-term accommodation for people who have arrived at the Community Hub to obtain IDP status, receive counseling, or undergo rehabilitation.
IMPLEMENTATION
What will be built on-site?
• Administrative services center with conference hall and library
• Recovery space for rehabilitation consultations (physical and psychological)
• Residential space for IDPs on-site for recovery programs
• Playground with underground shelter
FUNCTIONALITY
Residential space
Recovery space
ASC
Playground with underground shelter
2 334 sq. m
Landscaping
Development
Plot
7 800 sq. m
1 140 sq. m
FUNCTIONALITY
9350*
admin services and applications per year
Provided services and application numbers are calculated according to the current data of an existing center
9350*
Personal medical consultations (up to 60 minutes during the workweek)
medical consultations per year
830*
people per year
Capacity of inpatient recovery treatment (duration: from one week to a year)
*These data are indicative calculations and may be changed depending on specific requirements when requesting services.
HOUSING PROJECT TRANSFORMATION
RE:Ukraine Community Hubs became a natural extension of the Housing project in Vorzel. Its primary goal, to provide internally displaced persons with dignified housing, was a response to an urgent, short-term problem in the first months of the full-scale war. At the same time, the bureau's team received valuable feedback from the local community.
To support IDPs systematically and in the long term, there was a need to create a space for administrative interaction between citizens, the state, and local initiatives and a place to provide rehabilitation services. Thus, the RE:Ukraine Housing project in Vorzel has transformed: its residential sections will now serve as temporary housing for people undergoing rehabilitation at the recovery center.
PROJECT STATUS
PROJECT SUPPORT
Our donors
Furniture for the residential sections is provided by IKEA in Southeast Europe.
Our partners
TEAM
18 team members
are working on the RE:Ukraine Community Hub project in Vorzel.
The initiative is handled by balbek bureau, an architecture practice with 16 years of experience designing residential and commercial spaces.
In March 2022, architects, project managers and communications specialists joined forces to raise the standard of temporary housing for IDPs. The project has since grown into a series of social initiatives titled RE:Ukraine System.
