Greenworks Ukraine: Clean Rivers

Greetings all!

Thank you for your generous donation to our project.  We've got a number of updates to share, but first, there's a 100% matching opportunity on this project RIGHT NOW, if you wish to renew your contribution.  All donations will be doubled and will help us support our Ukrainian colleagues in 2026.

Since our last update, the Lviv Polytechnic team has conducted several more excursions to the Carpathian Mountains, both with and without students.  The purpose of the most recent work has been to identify more geological landforms and their relationship with the Sukel' River, as well as to document the existing geotourism infrastructure.  Additionally, they have been bringing students out into the field to train them how to conduct fieldwork, sample river waters, and identify and map pollution sources.

Over the past month, we have also run our Project Design curriculum with undergraduate and graduate students at Lviv Polytechnic and Ivan Franko National in Lviv.  Students included geology, geography, and museum and tourism studies students.  Professors and students met in-person weekly to learn about project lifecycles, including how to talk to stakeholders in the field to understand their priorities, how to identify important research questions to ask when designing a project, and budgeting and scheduling the work for the project.  Over the next few weeks, to finalize the course, students will write their own project proposals for expanding the Clean Rivers project, which your donations can support!

We're looking forward to lot more exciting updates on this project, and hope we can count on your support to keep it going, especially with a 100% on all donations right now!

With gratitude,

Lev