Project background
There are about 100,000 children in the child welfare system in Ukraine which do not live with their birth families and there are many who don’t have parents at all or were abandoned by their parents. Most of them live in orphanages type institutions which were inherited from soviet child welfare system.
There are a big number of healthy families in Ukraine which potentially able to adopt these children. The major sources of these families are churches and communities. But, the biggest barrier for that is the post soviet mentality, when adoption was not popular and was viewed as something negative. In fact families are very often afraid of adoption do not understand about it adopt and have inadequate information about adoption.
So it is important in this situation to promote the idea of national adoption, to motivate by inspiring and encouraging and support these families so they could adopt children and do not be afraid.
In “Adopt Project “ we can do all that through presentations on adoption in churches, communities and public organizations, trainings, consultations and individual work with families helping them in a process of adoption, support and encouragement of the families who already adopted.
During last 3 years 150 presentations were held in churches and communities in 12 regions of Ukraine, 80 children were placed in families, over 200 people turned for consultation.
