A four-day regional youth workshop on national and patriotic education, "Call of the Steppe – 2025," has successfully concluded in the Dnipropetrovsk region. This year, the camp, which has a history dating back to 1997, was given new life by young leaders who took on the full organization of the event.
Under the guidance of experienced mentors, camp participants independently set up tents, cooked meals, and developed a packed program of activities. This gave young men and women the opportunity to demonstrate their organizational skills, feel a sense of responsibility, and strengthen their team spirit. A special camp tradition that created a warm, family atmosphere was the legendary "verhuny" and "fuchky-pliatsky" made by the program's author, Nataliia Klymova.
The event's goal was not only to develop the scouting movement and engage young people in a healthy lifestyle but also to strengthen national and patriotic education. The camp's program was extremely diverse and educational: morning exercises and flash mobs to improve physical fitness and team spirit, masterclasses on weaving amulets and tourism techniques, sports competitions, evenings of songs with a guitar, and creative activities such as an environmental campaign and painting stones.
The program was supplemented with meetings with distinguished guests. Specialists from the Dnipro team of the "Readiness and Protection in Case of Conflict" project conducted a training session that provided the youth with important skills for acting in difficult situations. The meeting with military personnel was especially valuable; they shared knowledge on tactical medicine and drone characteristics and presented a book by Roman Shukhevych. The military donated four copies of the book to the participants, and the youth, in turn, thanked them with handmade amulets and commemorative stones depicting their native Donetsk region with the inscription "Call of the Steppe – 2025."
Oleksandr Shevchenko, the Deputy Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, who attended the event, highly praised the level of organization and emphasized the importance of such initiatives for uniting youth, developing youth policy, and forming an active civic stance.
The "Call of the Steppe – 2025" camp became a vivid example that patriotism is not just words. It is the concrete actions and skills that young people gained during the event to make their country stronger in the future.