About project

Comprehensive systemic assistance in the prevention of social orphanhood and support for those who are involved in helping orphans (in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions) Everyone is in focus: - children in boarding schools - a family in crisis - a child in a foster family Our priorities: - actions aimed for results - an individual, integrated approach - experience, teamwork, dedication to the job Help in adaptation. Helping children in boarding schools • Focus on adaptation to independent living Cooperation with social centers and boarding institutions in achieving the goals of the project. • Individual work (Individual Mentoring) Education, comprehensive training and support of Mentors and volunteers for children and youth in boarding schools and social support centers (individual and corporate Mentoring). • Corporate mentoring This is a set of services provided by business in partnership with the Foundation and the state to support young people in understanding their talents, desires and opportunities in determining a future profession with a view to their successful integration into society. • Group work Conducting educational, cultural and sports events, group classes and psychological trainings aimed at the comprehensive development of the child. • Work with the population Educational activities for the population on issues of awareness regarding orphans and children deprived of parental care: the basic needs of the child and ways to meet these needs. • Work with boarding school graduates Conducting interest clubs for boarding school graduates. Investing in life Prevention of social orphanhood - assistance and support to parents-candidates for deprivation of parental rights and families of SJO. Motivation and support for volunteers, mentors, specialists, and parents raising orphans and children deprived of parental care. • Project “We are near” Comprehensive, timely assistance to parents with various forms of family education in the development and adaptation of children in their family. • Work with the population Educational work aimed at familiarizing the population with various forms of family education for children deprived of parental care and orphans. • Project “Dream, Achieve” Support and motivation of orphans and children deprived of parental care who are brought up in family-type orphanages and other forms of family education to achieve academic success and social adaptation. • Project “Everyone is Important” Support and motivation of mentors and volunteers for orphans and children deprived of parental care. Exchange of experience, training, prevention of emotional burnout. Development of the volunteer movement • Project Kidsave Helps find a family for an older child from a boarding school and support them. Why is it important? There are more than 106,000 children in residential institutions. Did you know that 92% of children in boarding schools have parents? If they have parents, then why in boarding schools? Poverty, various addictions, difficult life circumstances, etc. More than 600,000 children live in crisis families, and they are, in fact, “standing in line” to get into residential institutions. Everyone in their place can help and support: • Mother (father) or grandmother, those who raise children themselves. • A family that finds itself in difficult life circumstances; After all, it is from such families that children most often end up in boarding schools. 30% of children who were raised in boarding schools will bring their children here. • A family that took children from a boarding school for upbringing. These children and families need help every day. What they need most is: love, support, help with life skills, care and attention. If you want to help a child, regardless of whether she is in a boarding school, in a family that finds herself in difficult life circumstances, or in a family raising a child deprived of parental care - help! • Support the Mentoring project, or become a Mentor for a child in a boarding school yourself. • Support a family who finds themselves in difficult life circumstances, or the Foundation's projects in this direction. • Support the family that took in the children. Your help can be systematic or one-time, practical or advisory, prayerful and financial. Every step of your help is extremely necessary and important!