Charity
Help Your Homeland
In the past decade, Dmitry Firtash has been actively contributing into the development of his native village of Synkiv in Zaleshchiki district, Ternopil region, where he was born and went to school. The entrepreneur makes frequent visits to Synkiv where his mother still resides. He meets with his fellow-villagers and always sees to it that they have access to comfortable life and modern amenities.Mr. Firtash has been pursuing a systemic approach to the construction and reconstruction of numerous rural facilities and infrastructure elements. Mr. Firtash’s financial assistance helped build and maintain roads in an ideal state, get each household connected to gas supply, remodel the village school and equip it with several computer classes while broadband Internet lines were laid in all houses. A new stadium is being built next to the school. In addition to that, the construction projects funded by Mr. Firtash include a new village council office, a modern hotel, restaurant and a family practitioner’s clinic.
The massive restoration effort at the Church of Translation of Relics of St. Nicholas is nearing completion. This temple was founded in the 1630th and is now a government-protected architectural monument. Major restoration works have been carried out, the mural decorations are renovated, the church plate has been acquired, the dome is set and the belfry erected. This Greek Catholic Church is a home of worship for up to 1300 parishioners.
Opening Western Ukraine’s largest greenhouse facility DF Agro in the Synkiv initiated and financed by Mr. Dmitry Firtash, a Synkiv’s native became a new milestone in the village’s development. The enterprise is estimated to annually 4 thousand tons of tomatoes and 1.55 thousand tons of peppers.
Dmitry Firtash projects that the greenhouse facility will trigger the village’s rebirth. “I was not pursuing the goal of capitalizing on agricultural business. For me, this greenhouse complex is a tool for helping my native village. New jobs will emerge, new receipts to the local budget will be generated, the funding for maintaining the infrastructure will become available,” explained the businessman. “This is my homeland where I was born and raised which is why I was committed to help it. I started to build a school, a kindergarten there until we bumped into a problem: the village has no cash to pay utility bills and wages to employees. That caused us to look for a business endeavor that would help the village rise. We chose greenhouses because growing cucumbers and tomatoes has been a traditional enterprise for Synkiv. I myself used to sell tomatoes at the market along with my mother,” recalls Mr. Firtash.
He further told that the past two decades saw the disappearance of 360 villages. “It is business that is capable of reviving the village by setting up new enterprises, by creating new jobs. For the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, this is a core issue. I hope we will manage to make it happen,” he said.
In the district administrative center of Zaleshchiki, Mr. Firtash provides funding for the remodeling of the district hospital servicing up to 50 patients. Quite a few buildings date back to the early last century and badly require capital overhaul. The hospital modernization program envisages the erection of new pediatric and emergency care wards. Further, new medical equipment and nine ambulance cars will be purchased for the hospital.
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20 September 2012State-of-the-art Hospital Opened in Zalishchyki
The most modern hospital of European level servicing inhabitants of three districts opened in Ternopil oblast. During one year the capital renovation of hospital’s six buildings and construction of four new ones have been competed in...
19 September 2012
Dmitry Firtash Supports University in Chernovtsy
The President of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine and Head of the Board of Director of Group DF Mr. Firtash announced his plans at the meeting of the Council for Entrepreneurship Development and Investment Promotion in Chernivtsi region
07 August 2012
Ukraine’s Largest Greenhouse Complex to Open in Ternopil Region in September
Greenhouse-raised vegetables import may only be reduced if at least 500 hectares of greenhouses are built in Ukraine. Last year this effort was initiated and the first 44 hectares of modern greenhouses are already available
10 February 2012
New Opportunities For New Village
The toll of working on the land became known to Dmitry Firtash in his school years: back at Soviet times, the family would earn their extra income by growing tomatoes in greenhouses built on their land plot. That was business as usual for many in...
09 February 2012
Genuine Care For Fellow Citizens
In one of his interviews Dmitry Firtash once said that in his perception the genuine patriotism is about someone’s commitment to doing more for their country and for one another than formal obligations of a citizen require them to. It is...
14 July 2011
Dmitry Firtash To Donate Nine Ambulances To The District Hospital And To Finance Its Reconstruction And Extension
Mr. Dmitry Firtash, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Group DF has met with Mr. Valentin Khoptyan, Governor of Ternopil Region in the village of Zaleschiki, Ternopil Region. As part of this meeting program, Mr. Firtash