The TEACHERS FOR UKRAINE initiative connects volunteer English language teachers from around the world with adult Ukrainians affected by the war for 1hr/week of free, online, one-on-one English language classes. Each volunteer teacher is paired with an adult Ukrainian student for individualized online instruction. All teachers are responsible for assessing their students’ needs and for preparing appropriate teaching materials. Our goal is to use our knowledge and skills as English language educators to help Ukrainians in need and to show our support for Ukraine. Our students are both refugees and Ukrainians still living in Ukraine. We only offer online classes to adult students – no children or minors. Please note that we are not a formal organization, but a volunteer teacher initiative. Our two administrators (Kalina Papadimitriou and Dr. Marty Pilott) and all our teachers are volunteers. We do not have any funding and we do not accept any donations. We stand with Ukraine. We stand for peace. The volunteer Teachers for Ukraine initiative was created in March, 2022, by Kalina Slavova Papadimitriou, a Bulgarian teacher of English currently living in Quebec, Canada. In just nine months, it went from one teacher and one Ukrainian student to more than 600 teachers from around the world and more than 800 Ukrainian students. Our hope is for this initiative to connect its participants not only as teachers and students studying English together - as important as this is for our students, the majority of whom are recent refugees in the UK - but also, as friends supporting and encouraging each other in this particularly difficult time for the Ukrainian people. As Goran Personn, the former Swedish Prime Minister once eloquently said: “... we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word." Email (Kalina - registration): teachersforukraine@gmail.com Email (Marty - academic support): teachersforukraine@outlook.com