The International Charitable Foundation “Assistance to Victims of Road Accidents” continues to receive numerous responses from the winners of the IV all-Ukraine Youth Photo and Video Competition “Safe Country”, who received diplomas and gifts. As in the previous year, due to the epidemic situation, the results of the competition and awards were announced online, and all prizes were sent to the contestants by mail.

As we have reported, out of more than a thousand works submitted to the competition, 52 prize works from pupils and students from all over Ukraine reached the finals. We are extremely pleased that children and youth of the country with such activity for several years in a row are involved in covering important topics related to safety – safety on the streets and roads, safety in emergencies, safety in educational institutions, in particular, combating children bullying, environmental safety, etc. There are more and more competition works every year, and our competition plays an important role in popularization, educational and training-developmental role in the educational environment in the country.

“We want to thank your entire team for the wonderful organization, for the pleasant impressions and incredible gifts on behalf of all the talented children!!! We thank the judges for the good and fair treatment of all contestants. No one was left unattended, even if they did not win this time. Thank you for the opportunity to take part in such a difficult time for our country, for the opportunity to see who you can emulate, who to be inspired by and where to grow. Thank you for the solemn and beautiful award! May God give you all his best gifts! Peace, harmony, goodness, love in your families, a full bowl in your homes and good health for many years! We truly thank the organizers, judges, sponsors and everyone involved! You have made the children of Ukraine happier!!! ” – such a wonderful response came from the Zamshaniv Lyceum in Volyn, a pupil of the group “Photoecologists” whose Ivanna Starushyk took second place in the nomination “Youth for Road Safety” (photo).

“I would like to express my gratitude and sincere gratitude for the opportunity to participate in the IV all-Ukraine Youth Photo and Video Competition “Safe Country”. This is my first participation. I had an extremely interesting and useful experience! I am extremely grateful to the organizers. You are doing a very useful thing today – drawing the attention of humanity to such problems in the world as road safety, promotion of reflective elements, anti-bullying, barrier-free educational environment, safety of life.

Thanks to the competition, a large number of children were able to demonstrate their abilities by artistically revealing problems in photo and video works. Special thanks to the partners of the IV all-Ukraine youth competition of photo and video works “Safe Country”, with which the children received wonderful gifts for further work, as well as such a positive charge, which will be enough for the next competition!

I wish you plenty of strength and health, inspiration to continue to do this important work, and all participants – further creative success!!!” – such a warm response from the three-time winner of the competition Rudik Nazariy, a student of 4A class of the Specialized School of I-III degrees № 247 with foreign languages of Kyiv and his parents. The boy won a record number of prizes this year.

Winning such a competition is the greatest recognition for children, but it is always a pleasure to receive gifts, and everyone was looking forward to them. ICF “Assistance to Victims  of Road Accidents” once again expresses its sincere gratitude to our permanent partners and official sponsors of the competition – Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine, Eurocar LLC, Shiny-Ukraine LLC, BIKO COMPANY LLC, QUINTO P “- for incredibly cool and useful prizes for our young nominees. This year it is drones, smart watches, fitness bracelets, portable speakers, certificates for electronics and accessories, sets of reflective products and more.

We hope that all this will be useful to our winners and will inspire them to new creative achievements.

As we have reported, our 4th annual all-Ukraine photo and video competition of the “Safe Country” national project was held this year in May-October in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine, with the support of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Security, Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

The award ceremony took place on November 16, 2021 in online format, watched by more than 2.5 thousand spectators.