A leisure area featuring a jetty and gazebos has been created in Snihurivka at a cost of ₴600,000

Recreation area. Photo: Serhii Ovcharyshyn / NikVesti

A recreation area featuring gazebos, benches, footpaths and a jetty has been created in Snihurivka. Around 600,000 hryvnias in grant funding was allocated to the project.

This is covered in the NikVesti article «Between reconstruction and air raid alarms: life in Snihurivka today».

As Iryna Vlasenko, a community initiative support facilitator at ADRA Ukraine, told us in a comment, the main idea was to tidy up the space and make it more convenient for residents.

«It was an undeveloped area. People used to relax here, but everything was haphazard. We wanted to tidy this place up and make it accessible to everyone,» she says.

Recreation area. Photo: Serhii Ovcharyshyn / NikVesti

Recreation area. Photo: Serhiy Ovcharyshyn / NikVesti

Recreation area. Photo: Serhii Ovcharyshyn / NikVesti

During the works, local residents joined in the community clean-ups, helping to tidy up the area and carry out some of the work. As a result, six gazebos were installed here, along with paths, benches and a jetty. Later, a fence and CCTV cameras were also installed.

It should be noted that the project was implemented using grant funds from ADRA Ukraine as part of a programme funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The initiative was submitted by the non-governmental organisation «Renaissance of the South».

As a reminder, the Snihurivka community is home to almost 16,000 people, which represents around 60–70% of the pre-war population. As Ivan Kukhta, head of the Snihurivka Town Military Administration, told us in a comment, over 21,000 people lived in the community before the full-scale war. After the liberation, around 8–9,000 residents remained. Currently, there are approximately 15,800 people in the community. Of these, 2,646 are children and 959 are internally displaced persons.