Feminist Workshop, Ukraine

In the 17th episode of the Daphne-CHILD Grantee Spotlight Series, Liubov Kolomieiets from Feminist Workshop discusses their project preventing sexual and gender-based violence through school-based sexuality education in Lviv, Ukraine.

The project operates in a context where sexuality education is absent from the national curriculum, officially resisted by the Ministry of Education, and widely treated as taboo, particularly in a city where religious communities strongly shape family attitudes. Working with children in public schools, Feminist Workshop delivers interactive sessions built as a flexible puzzle of activities rather than a fixed curriculum, adapting in real time to each group's age, background, and readiness to engage. All of this unfolds against the backdrop of war: displaced children, disrupted school days, sleepless nights, and young people who may have lost parents to the conflict, making Feminist Workshop's trauma-sensitive, inclusive approach not a methodological choice, but a necessity.

This podcast is part of a series aiming to showcase the vital and innovative work of our grantees in the Daphne-CHILD programme as they combat violence against children across Europe.