The People’s Project of the sixth season of social initiatives contest “We are the city”, which Zaporizhstal Steel Works has been running since 2013, has become the project of Housing cooperative “Charivny Svitanok” to create an entrance ramp-electric elevator for people with disabilities.
The authors of the project plan to install a ramp that will allow people with disabilities to facilitate movement and create more comfortable conditions for life.
The People’s Project will pass a stage of open presentations to the expert council of the contest, which will be held from 16 to 19 July. Following the results of open defenses, the projects that won the contest will receive money grants amounted up to UAH 100,000 for implementation of their projects.
Online voting took place on the portal of the contest “We are the city” from June 22 to July 4. People’s project-2018 received 7277 votes from Zaporozhye citizens from total amount 29117. It should be noted that the number of voting participants annually increases: in 2016 for the national project there were 7500 votes and in 2017 the number has increased up to 14000.
The grant fund of the contest “We are the city” in 2018 amounted to 4.3 million UAH. The number of semifinalists was more than 100 projects of different directions.