In memory of the members of our organization, Olena Karetna and Ievhen Bielonozhko

In June 2025, our organization suffered a heavy loss.

After battling a serious illness for years, our colleague Olena Karetna died on June 8, 2025. She worked as a nurse in the mobile multidisciplinary team at the municipal non-profit enterprise Psychiatry Clinical Hospital in Kyiv. Olena was a high-profile specialist and member of the NGO "Psychability".

On June 20, 2025, a member of the NGO "Psychability" board, Ievhen Bielonozhko, died of a heart attack.

Olena Karetna devoted her entire professional life to the rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. For more than 20 years, she paid attention to the mental state of those who had already undergone treatment, and psychologically supported those who were on their path to recovery. Her phone was on day and night. She never refused help to those who struggled with their fears. Olena joined the organization on its foundation day in 2019. She became an ambassador for the organization's specialists in our advocacy campaign "Assistant to a Person with a Mental Disorder". Her experience and empathy allowed many of the organization's clients to improve family relationships, find employment, and simply become useful to society.

Ievhen Bielonozhko became the NGO "Psychability" board member in January 2025. He was an experienced psychologist and a relative of a person with a mental disorder. His professionalism was felt in everything: participating in rallies against the destruction of psychiatry, defending the rights of people with mental disorders to quality treatment and rehabilitation, as well as their families to receive the social services they need.

In April 2024, he became an ambassador for the relatives of people with mental disorders in the advocacy campaign "Assistant to a Person with a Mental Disorder". This campaign was also successful thanks to Ievhen's professional speech at the Presentation of the Research Results (Mediacenter Ukraine) and the Round Table “Paths to a Barrier-Free Life for People with Mental Disorders” (IA “Ukrinform”).