Translate Grief Recovery Method® for Ukrainians

Hi, my name is Tammy Fleming (at left, in photo below). Along with my colleagues, Slava and Tanya Naumov (at right, below), as trained Advanced Grief Recovery Method® Specialists, we are deeply involved with people all around us who are suffering grief, trauma, and loss of many kinds due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Here is a short video about our request: 

https://youtu.be/CsvgyENXuoQ

All three of us were living in Kyiv when the war began on February 24th of last year, 2022th. Slava and Tanya's home was very close to the Western front, the cities of Bucha and Irpin, where there was and remains much destruction and devastation. We all evacuated from our homes and took refuge in temporary housing for several weeks. Thankfully, the Naumovs have been able to return to live in their home and I have relocated to London to wait out the war.

The Grief Recovery Method® is a scientifically proven , 7- or 8-session educational program that gives people the tools they need to effectively address and complete the pain associated with the kinds of losses we are seeing everywhere around us. More than five and a half million Ukrainians as of July 2022 have fled their homeland, mostly women and children, as men under 60 years old are not allowed to leave the country. These people are experiencing unprecedented stress, trauma, grief and loss. The International Crisis Group estimates that over 14,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the armed conflict began in Donbas in 2014. I read a news report that estimates 100.000 losses on each side of the border. However, people are grieving not only the death of loved ones but losses like personal safety and financial security -- many people have lost jobs and businesses. Family: many children who evacuated are now separated from their fathers who remained behind. Marriage: husbands and wives now find themselves separated indefinitely. Identity, home, culture, language -- and this is just the beginning.

Here is our vision and dream and our request, if you can possibly help in any way:

1) We are looking to raise $8000 for the Naumovs to be able to provide grief recovery for free to people in need from now until the end of March 2023.

With this sum, they could afford to take on five or six grief recovery groups of people who currently find it impossible to pay for this service but desperately need it.

(The value of the 8-week program currently in Ukraine is $200 per participant for all 8 sessions inclusive, or only $25 per session. This is dirt cheap, due to the wartime situation.)

https://www.griefrecoverymethod.com/grms/tetiana-naumova

https://www.griefrecoverymethod.com/grms/vyacheslav-naumov

2) We urgently need to produce a Ukrainian-language version of The Grief Recovery Handbook. This is being done in full cooperation with the Grief Recovery Institute in the USA. Vice President of the Grief Recovery Institute, Ed Owens, has approved and is overseeing our Ukrainian translation project as he did with our Russian translation, which we successfully completed in 2020.

Included in our goal is $2000 toward accomplishing this task. We have engaged two translators. One is already working on producing an English-to-Ukrainian translation of the book, Helping Children with Loss, and the other is in the process of completing the Grief Recovery Method® herself, before embarking on the English-to-Ukrainian translation of The Grief Recovery Handbook. We are so pleased to be able to introduce you to them here for the first time:

I’m Albina and I will translate The Grief Recovery Handbook into Ukrainian. This work is very important at the time of war and afterwards, to help more people get over their grief and trauma. There is too much suffering in Ukraine now, so I am glad to be part of this great work that is done for the sake of others in my country.

and this is Irina (lower right), who is beginning work on translating Helping Children With Loss, on a recent zoom call with us. We met Irina when she found us on Facebook and became a participant in an online Grief Recovery Method® group in 2020. Irina is from Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine. She evacuated her home on March 1st, 2022 to Canada because of the war. (Slava and Tanya, by the way, in this picture are seen in a temporary home. Their own apartment the last few days has had heat, water, and light only two hours a day -- not enough for the building to heat up to a reasonable temperature nor fill the water tank enough for the water to run. They are temporarily staying in a friend's home which is connected to some important structure and therefore is not losing services for so many hours at a time. They are warm and safe there for the time being.)

From the bottom of our hearts -- thank you so much for your consideration.

The people affected by this war desperately need effective emotional support. We are well-positioned to alleviate some of their suffering, if you can help us. Thank you.