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Oct 2, 2026 ∙ 3 min
"I'm Not the Only One": How Ukrainian Women in Lithuania Are Learning to Start With Ten Minutes
A psychologist advises women living abroad to stop fighting procrastination with willpower and instead shrink the task to a size they can begin. Tetiana, a participant from Vilnius, wrote to the organizers after an online session: "I have hope that I might actually make it to the pool." It was not a grand pledge to remake her life. It was a willingness to take one real step, and the organizers say that kind of readiness was the most important outcome of a conversation about why people put off...

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Oct 1, 2026 ∙ 4 min
VolEver Volunteer App, VERTIS Translation, Pension Planning and the Svitlobook Story: Three Workshops for Ukrainian Refugees in Lithuania
Three workshops in Panevėžys, Naujoji Akmenė and Utena introduced Ukrainian refugees to the VolEver volunteering app, the free VERTIS translation service and pension planning, alongside one entrepreneur's story of starting over.

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Sep 16, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Walking In Their Shoes: Inside Vilnius's Experiment in Empathy for Refugees
A 90-minute simulation asked professionals, students and journalists to become asylum seekers for an afternoon — and left many of them rethinking what they thought they knew about displacement. VILNIUS — On a quiet Tuesday afternoon inside the National Gallery of Art, a room full of professionals — researchers, employment specialists, media analysts, aid workers and journalists — surrendered their names. For the next ninety minutes, they would not be themselves. They would be Omar, fleeing...

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