We believe the lit­er­a­ture has a spe­cial way to com­mu­ni­cate the his­to­ry and cul­ture and cur­rent chal­lenges that coun­tries and peo­ple there are going through. We believe that both sides would learn a lot from one anoth­er. We see our role as facil­i­tat­ing ini­tial intro­duc­tion between lit­er­a­ture cen­tres in both coun­tries that would allow to learn about par­tic­u­lar­i­ties and com­mon­al­i­ties that would be mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial.

We have already facil­i­tat­ed par­tic­i­pa­tion of Ukrain­ian poets in Poet­ry Africa Fes­ti­val 2017 and 2018, as well as orga­nized a num­ber of oth­er events with Ukrain­ian poets and writ­ers. We would like to estab­lish a pro­gramme that would allow poets and writ­ers from each coun­tries to vis­it one anoth­er where both sides would host their coun­ter­parts. We do need fund­ing to cov­er or sub­si­dize trav­el expens­es.

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