Adopt Ukraine

ILDC GOES OUT TO NEW REGIONS OF UKRAINE!

2011-02-18T08:41:00.000-08:00

With our project “Adopt Ukraine” we were able to make 2 important connections with churches in Cherkassy and Kharkov regions. We plan to do presentations for promotion of national adoption with the propose to mobilize churches and find Christian families to adopt children who are in the orphanages at the moment. Every child deserves to be in a family and our dream is to see Ukraine without orphans. Our project manager Victoria will be going at the end of this month to Cherkassy region first and the next month she will be In Kharkov.

Please support her in your prayers so that in result of those presentations more children would find their families!

Stay tuned, we will keep you updated on the results of these presentations and stories from the families who already adopted.

FROM VIKTORIA

2011-01-21T10:47:00.000-08:00

Follow up from our Adopt Ukraine project manager Victoria.

Thanks to the trainings which were conducted by ILDC in different regions of Ukraine, the number of adoptive families has increased. Also, various families who have already adopted from the orphanages made decisions to adopt more children. Our Adopt Ukraine manager Victoria has reported that in Apostolov town one adoptive family has adopted two more children and there are 5 new families that already have adopted children. Also in Sshors town, Chernigov region 2 new families adopted children from the orphanages.

What does It mean to us and why these stories inspire us? It means to us that dozens of children from the orphanages are no longer there and they are not orphans anymore. It means to us that these children have parents now, who would take care for them and love them. We also learned, that trainings that we conduct for adoptive parents, do not only provide them with knowledge, but gives them courage, inspires them and motivates them to not be afraid to adopt more children. Through our trainings parents answer the main question “can I handle it?” For ILDC it is great encouragement to see these parents after the training being inspired, motivated and confident that they really can do it and there is no need to live in fear.

ILDC WORK RESULTS IN 2010

2011-01-18T07:18:00.000-08:00

Adopt Ukraine: WHAT IS ADOPT UKRAINE

2010-12-24T05:15:00.000-08:00

Adopt Ukraine: WHAT IS ADOPT UKRAINE

LATEST UPDATE ON KATRINA!

2010-12-24T05:14:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

First of all, I wanted to thank everyone for your care and your prayers for this situation.

We have been working with the USA embassy for last couple of weeks. We helped Katrina to fill out the necessary papers that Embassy had requested from Katrina. Yesterday we had a good conversation with the US embassy representative. They informed us that they have addressed the U.S. Health and Human Services/International Social Services to deal with Katrina’s repatriation back to the U.S. We were told that it is going to be about three weeks until we hear from them about their decision.

We would like to ask you to continue your prays for this situation, for Katrina and her future!

We will keep you updated on the situation

ILDC team

STORY FROM PROJECT “ADOPT UKRAINE”, ILDC

2010-12-24T04:53:00.000-08:00

The Kyrylenko family from Apostolov town, Drenepropetrovsk region of Ukraine has adopted 3 children from the orphanage a year and a half ago. Right after children arrived to the family, the parents started experiencing problems with the oldest boy Vitality. He was misbehaving himself and caused many problems in the family. The Kyrylenko family approached ILDC national trainer for a consultation. After the consultation the family was invited to attend ILDC training for adoptive and foster families. As the result of the training, things in the family started to get better and better. Volodia has improved in his behavior and is getting along with his parents. Now, the Kyrylenko family has adopted two more kids, two brothers Daniel and Andrei. They have told us one day that they were very glad to attend the training and to learn how to manage difficult behavior. For us it is great example on how a training can make an impact and change families. Different things they didn’t know or maybe thought were not so important can cause big challenges and problems in the family. There are so many families in Ukraine with a similar situation to this one, where parents don’t know what to do and how to raise their adoptive or foster children. Some of them have already given up and children had to go back to the orphanage.

We believe, training can make a difference not only in parents' life but in lives of children as well!

WHAT IS ADOPT UKRAINE

2010-12-14T04:36:00.000-08:00

HER NAME IS KATYA

2010-12-10T06:30:00.000-08:00

This is a repost from www.lambinternational.blogspot.com ILDC founder organization

A SITUATION - CAN YOU HELP

HER NAME IS KATYA.

We have been working on a difficult sitution here in Ukraine. There is a young American girl who is presently at an orphanage not by her choice. She was adopted from Ukraine when she was in grade 6. She turned 18 in August of this year and in October 2010 her adoptive parents put her on a plane and sent her back to Ukraine. We have heard her story and it is sad.
She is receiving help from a church in Krivoy Rog as well as other individuals in Ukraine. She now has no place to return to in the US and had no idea of what she will do. The US Embassy has been contacted and they are aware of the situation and are planning to do a thorough investigation of the situation.

Our staff are doing what they can do as well. We have found a place for her to stay here in Ukraine until she can return to the US, but she is running out of time to leave the country. Foreigners can only stay three months and then need to leave and then they can re-enter. Although she was born in Ukraine, she is now considered a foreigner. Her citizenship is US and she wants to return, but has no one to help her in the US.

This is where we place the call to our friends, family and bloggers. Is there anyone out there willing to take a risk and help? Her story is one of constant conflict, verbal abuse and lack of emotional support. She claims she was a Magna student (can easily be confirmed). She was to graduate this year, but was sent back before this could take place. She will likely lose most of her school year. She claims she was sent back with only hours notice - afraid of what the alternatives were for her.

All persons working with her in Ukraine claim she is a nice girl - very upset at this, does not know the national language of Ukrainian and speaks "weak" Russian. In fact her Russian is at a grade 6 level. She wants to return home to the US. She sees no hope with her adoptive family.

Please consider this, pray for this siutation and let us know if you have any ideas. You can contact us at our email address - we believe this young woman deserves to have this help. One cannot make decisions alone when you are 18 - in a foreign country - facing the unknowns - and just plain scared.

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT!!!

2010-11-23T06:55:00.000-08:00

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.

Goal of the project

Main goal of the project is to help find families for orphans in Ukraine.

Tasks of the project

1.To promote national idea of national adoption in Ukraine.
2.To encourage families who want to adopt.
3.To help families in the process of adoption or restorations their parental rights.
4.Provide support to families which already adopted.
5.To conduct trainings and counseling of potential adoptive parents, families who adopted children and orphaned children

Project activities

1.Presentation on adoption in churches and public organization.
2.Training potential adoptive parents and children in orphanages and orphanage graduates.
3.Counseling families on issues of placing children into the family, raising children, conflict resolution.
4.Helping families in a process of adoption.
5.Finding families for children who can be adopted.
6.Helping birth families in restoration of their parental rights and reunification with their children.
7.Preparing children for adoption and counseling children after their placement