Olena Voitenko - participant of the regional contest "Woman of Donetsk Region" in 2025, nomination "Power of Good and Unity"
School years are the best times that remain in your heart forever, along with the memories of your teachers. We would like to introduce you to a super teacher who combines the talent to teach children, the ability to recognize a person's mood and state, and the desire to help and support them in difficult times. This is Olena Voytenko, a teacher at Lyceum No. 4 in Liman, Ukraine, an Excellence in Education.
Every morning, the children gladly turn on their gadgets to meet their senior mentor in class and travel together in the country of knowledge. And children often want to talk to Olena Oleksandrivna in private about their fears, pain, and experiences, albeit through the screen of a gadget. And the teacher always finds time to listen to everyone, supports them, and gives them advice.
It is thanks to Ms. Olena's professional ability to prioritize her conversations with parents that many children in the Lyman region, both in peacetime and during these difficult years of war, were involved in restoring their mental health through participation in five- to seven-day excursions under the Donetsk Regional Education Association's program "Ecological Trails of Native Ukraine."
Happy, inspired by the ideas of restoring their native land and its nature - these children returned home from their travels, and to this day they keep in touch with each other. And Ms. Olena does not stop and helps them to join nature conservation activities, research and creativity, and develops their talents.
It was this teacher who realized that students in the de-occupied community needed notebooks, pens, pencils, paints, as well as clothes, food, sweets, medicines, etc. She found volunteers from the Kyiv region who agreed to provide such assistance to the children of the Lyman region, and together with them she repeatedly brought everything they needed. In the town near Kyiv, where she now lives, Olena helps the elderly.
Read the detailed story of the contestant here: https://surl.li/pfdpeq