
Valentyna Mazhbits, born 1976, has a doctorate in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In March 2022, she fled with her two children from Ukraine to Germany. Her husband remained in Kyiv. In the Solomiya (‘Peace’) Hospital Partnership, she is now working at the Berlin Charité to coordinate the establishment of psychosocial support for people in her homeland. The Hospital Partnerships funding programme is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the foundation Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung. It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. There are 374 projects in 66 countries at the present time (as of September 2022).