The Responsibility Award 2022 has started: everyone can join

Today, September 17, Ukraine celebrates Rescuer’s Day. It is not for nothing that the annual Responsibility Award is launched at the Foundation on this day. Details are given below.

How was it in 2021?

The Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation has been promoting responsible actions in Ukrainian society for years using the Declaration of Human Responsibilities, ResponsibleTalks, Human Responsibility Marathon, etc. In 2021, this direction of our activity reached the national level — the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported Foundation’s initiative and established the All-Ukrainian Human Responsibility Day with its annual celebration on October 19, Bohdan Hawrylyshyn’s birthday.

To celebrate the first Human Responsibility Day, we launched the annual Responsibility Award. In 2021, the award was presented to civil society organizations whose activities are related to one or more points of the Declaration of Human Responsibilities. The prize winners were the organizations “Come Back Alive” (winner of the 1st Prize), “Building Ukraine Together” (winner of the 2nd Prize), “Friends of the Community of Saint Egidius” (winner of the 3rd Prize).

How is the Responsibility Award organised in 2022?

Since the end of February 2022, our country has been living in a state of full-scale war. Since then, Ukrainian society has been going through many transformational processes, learning to interact and quickly respond to a new reality and its challenges. A strong and self-aware nation is growing despite extremely difficult times; it is becoming wiser and more developed. Currently, responsibility becomes the foundation of all actions aimed at the struggle and victory of Ukraine. These actions go from person to person, and they, like sunflower seeds, are sown so that life can sprout on our land.

Today, every citizen of our country, organization, and initiative that works for the sake of Ukraine deserves its “responsibility award”. Therefore, the Responsibility Award 2022 is about every Ukrainian man and woman who deserves gratitude for good deeds and actions that bring our Victory closer!

In 2022, the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation will donate the prize fund of the Responsibility Award for the demining of Ukrainian territories, so that life continues, and we learn, dream, and act in safety.

As long as the war continues, it brings consequences every day. One of them is the threat to human life due to mined fields, forests, and roads. According to data published in June 2022, more than 30 million hectares of land have been mined in Ukraine.

We invite you to fill in the application starting from September 17, Rescuer’s Day in Ukraine. And on October 19, Human Responsibility Day, we will announce the final amount of the donation, and we will buy large-format metal detectors and bags for sappers.

How can I join?

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn’s Declaration of Human Responsibilities teaches us simple and, at the same time, very wise things. Looking at how Ukrainians interact and fight today, Bohdan Dmytrovych would add one more point: Express your gratitude in order to inspire people and multiply their good deeds. We invite you to join the #історія_вдячності (#story_of_gratitude) initiative. When, if not now, to thank the Armed Forces, volunteers, doctors, your relatives and friends, or acquaintances? They fight, cure, volunteer, support, far and near – they love. That is why we live. Write your story on social networks, use the hashtag  #історія_вдячності (#story_of_gratitude), tag the Foundation. Let every good word be heard. Now is the time.

Demine with us. The Responsibility Award 2022 will be made up of your donations, partnership income and funds of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation. Every day, rescuers are aware of the risk to their lives, but they go to the task out of a sense of duty and responsibility. To be confident in their capabilities, they must be properly equipped. It depends on you and me.

We invite sponsors to join the initiative. 

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