On 3 August, a new “Own Land” project is launched on the air of five branches of the Suspilne broadcasting company. This is a programme about what can be achieved due to amalgamation with neighbours and hromadas in general.

The Poltava, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Kherson and Zakarpattia branches of the Suspilne broadcasting company take part in shooting. In general, they plan to film 50 series on the success stories and challenges of people who amalgamated to work together.

“Own Land is a project of local journalists on local practices,” tells Oleksandr Nazarov, chief film director of the project. “As a matter of fact, it is about people, who know the context of the region the best, and, accordingly, can tell the most complete and interesting story. These stories are about people's abilities to unite, jointly change the land they live in. These are stories that can serve as examples for others of what one can do and what mistakes should not be repeated. Although for me, their main value is that, as it turned out, it is possible to change your own life not relying upon an aunt in Italy or a lottery prize.”

Each series lasts for 13 minutes. This format will allow broadcasting the issues of the “Own Land” programme both on Suspilne TV channels, and on the pages of its branches in social networks. All issues will be released every Friday at 18:45 on the air of Ltava, UA: KHARKIV, Kirovohrad and Skifia TV channels, as well as at 20:25 on Tysa-1. The programmes will be repeated every Wednesday at 16:45 and every Sunday at 9:35.

The project is produced by the Suspilne broadcasting company with the support of GIZ. The regions were chosen according to the criteria of the pace of decentralisation processes and capacity of the branches of Suspilne broadcasting company. 

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