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
