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My name is Nataliia Zuzak and I'm working

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as Head of HR in GIZ Ukraine since 2019.

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And I have to admit that after two years
working under COVID-19 conditions

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the war has changed my life and work

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completely again once more.

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Now, instead of trainings, development
and retention measures for employees

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I have completely other dishes on my plate.

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For example: You can’t reach out to
one of your employees for a week –

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Is he still alive?

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Or we have a complete blackout

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no electricity, no mobile connection –

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how to check whether everybody is save
and nobody is hurt?

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These are the questions we have to deal with now.

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I understand every day that there is no time

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for long planning, constructive discussions, follow ups, etc.

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Sometimes I need to make a decision here and now

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for myself and even sometimes for others,

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because tomorrow I might not have electricity,
my laptop might be destroyed,

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my counterparts might not be reachable
and it might be too late.

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Over the last 15 months

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I also noticed how the war changed me personally.

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When Kyiv was heavily attacked
for the first time back in October 2022

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I was of course scared and I left the city for two days.

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But just in a week, when the same situation happened,

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I just went to the kitchen, boiled some water,

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did some extra cup of coffee for myself.

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Because I knew that there will not be electricity,

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there will not be water supply
and just continuing doing my work.

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In this situation for me as for many others

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it was and still is important to continue doing my work –

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without electricity in the shelter,

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hearing the explosions outside the building –

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just keep on doing my stuff.

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For many of us it is actually

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the only anchor to normal life.

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The hours where we can pretend

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that everything is like always:

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Payments, calculations, hirings.

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I have to admit that
I’ve been asked many times

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what motivates me and
keeps me moving on during these days?

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First of all it's, of course,
an unbelievable united

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togetherness for Ukrainians
who stand side by side for our victory.

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I'm incredibly inspired by the tremendous support

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we as a nation have found among
millions of people all over the world.

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This makes me keep on going day by day.