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Our Life | Наше життя June | Червень 2021 17 Both books are fascinating albe - it sobering reads and well worth adding to your personal libraries. The stories of these two women must be shared. Those of us who were raised outside of Ukraine cannot begin to imagine what our fellow Ukrainians experienced during the Second World War, nor how very brave they were. Sharing their stories honors their work and their memory. To enlighten our branch about the work of contemporary heroines, Oksana Piaseckyj shared informa - tion about Anastasia Melnichenko and Anna Mokrousova. Ms. Mel - nichenko was born in Kyiv and educated at the Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and Ukrainian Catho - lic University, where she studied journalism, history, archeology, and management. Through her work as a journalist, she was ex - posed to the prevalence of sexual violence, and the common ten - dency to blame the victim – ei - ther because of the way a wom - an dressed, or because she was walking alone, or perhaps because she was drunk. Compounding the injustice was the tendency for women not to want to “air their dirty laundry in public,” which prevented them from telling their story. Melnichenko began a pub - lic awareness campaign with the hashtag #IAmNotAfraidToSpeak . Men were also victims of sexual violence and afraid to speak up or obtain therapy out of fear of not being viewed as “manly.” To ad - dress these concerns, Melnichen - ko formed an organization called STUDENA to provide a platform for communicating ways in which vic - tims could seek help. With assis - tance from the U.S. Agency for In - ternational Development (USAID), her organization has started a school program to combat bullying, a site called BEZ Broni for veterans to find psychological and legal assistance along with rehabilitation, and a program called STUDE - NA IT that provides technology assistance to both individuals and small enterprises. Anna Mokrousova was educated at Taras Shevchenko University of Luhansk and the East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National Uni - versity, where she studied psychology. Following the Russian in - vasion in 2014, she was kidnapped by Russian troops in Luhansk, as were many other Ukrainians – both soldiers and civilians. There were no state programs providing assistance to people who survived captivity. In addition, Anna was concerned about the ill treatment and use of torture to intimidate, humiliate, or
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