Solutions to win: Ukrainian students sew adaptive clothes for wounded soldiers

First-year students of the Lutsk National University have started sewing adaptive clothes and underwear for wounded soldiers who are undergoing treatment in hospitals.

What is the problem?

When a soldier gets to the hospital, he may be unconscious and not have a phone to contact his family or lack basic necessities to have a relatively comfortable stay during his treatment.

Hospitals urgently need underwear and adaptive clothing for the wounded, especially for first-line medical facilities, where the wounded may stay for less than a day.

What is the solution?

First-year students at Lutsk National Technical University have started sewing a batch of underwear for wounded soldiers undergoing treatment in hospitals.

How does it work?

The students' teacher Oksana Lysiuk has been leading the volunteer movement since the beginning of the full-scale war. Her team has been sewing first aid kits and medical bags, stretchers for the wounded, unloading bags, and clothes for the soldiers.

Money from the sale of souvenirs was transferred to the front.

"I'm from Polissia [Ukraine's northern region]. Many men from out there on the front line, some of them wounded, including my classmates. About 70 people from my town are already at war, and up to a dozen of them are already buried," said Oksana Lysiuk.

Цього разу учениці коледжу шиють спіднє з тканини, яку у волонтерський центр навчального закладу принесли лучани, викладачі та студенти.

Під час теоретичних занять вивчала технологію пошиття виробів, зараз втілює вивчене на практиці 15-річна студентка Наталія Андрійчук.

The students are sewing underwear out of fabric brought to the college's volunteer center by residents, teachers, and other students.

During classes, 15-year-old student Natalia Andriychuk studied sewing technology and is now putting what she learned into practice.

The college teachers handed over the underwear and other items needed at the front to Victoria Kovalchuk, a volunteer and founder of the Businka charity foundation.

The volunteer says that she will soon deliver the underwear to hospitals and the military fighting near eastern Kupyansk.