Ray of Hope Center eng

What your money will pay for: • • • • •

Furnishing and equipping Centre of Social Support 580,000 UAH Furnishing and equipping Small Group Home 180,000 UAH Furnishing and equipping one out of 9 bedrooms for children 18,000 UAH Furnishing and equipping a dining room 47,000 UAH Equipping children’s playground 30,000 UAH

Your input will help us to support over 150 families who are at risk of family breakdown annually by providing high quality care and access to vital services. Our established model for closing institutions and setting up alternative services will be replicated across Ukraine, enabling more children to grow up in families.

Currently we are completing construction of the Centre and Small Group Home thanking to charitable funds provided by British citizens.

In addition, we have already managed to raise 30 % of the costs in Ukraine for furniture and equipment for the Centre and Small Group Home.

Master reference drawn 13.05.08

Building on success in Ukraine Providing a Ray of Hope

Target area:

Pictured: Mother and Baby Centre

Project aim:

You can either purchase and bring the furniture and equipment directly to the Centre or donate costs to our account: Account number: 26005962480687 Bank branch location code: 322755 № 5 Kyiv branch Bank Code: 25958402 Beneficiary: Hope and Homes for Children in Ukraine Bank of beneficiary: Public joint-stock company ‘First Ukrainian International Bank’ Please, state the following as the payment function – ‘Donation to the Centre of social support’

Hope and Homes for Children Ukraine 4 Baggovutivska St., Office 57, Kyiv 04107 Tel/fax: +38 (044) 483-29-79 Tel: +38 (044) 483-77-83 email: office@hopeandhomes.org.ua

www.hopeandhomes.org.ua

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Number of children and parents to benefit:

Makariv rayon, Kyiv oblast, population almost 45,000 comprising of 62 villages and 1 town To ensure that no further children in the Makariv region are institutionalised and that families have access to the support they need to avoid family breakdown Over 600, annually

Background

Project To complete the development and resource of the Ray of Hope Centre of Social Support and Small Group Home that will be the primary source of support and care for vulnerable children and families in the region. Once open, the Centre will become a hub of support for vulnerable families, enabling interaction between families, local authorities and other support organisations.

Services will include support to prevent family separation, life skills training for young people, a foster care programme, and emergency placements for children at risk of neglect or abuse, a Small Group Home to support up to 12 children, most of whom are teenagers who cannot live at home with relatives and for whom foster care has been ruled out. Additionally, there will be a mother and child shelter and a day care facility.

At present almost 70,000 vulnerable, neglected children and babies growing up in 636 Ukrainian institutions are in desperate need of the love of a family and the security of a home, among them: 30,000 orphan children, 5,000 young children. Almost 19,000 children are removed from their families annually and up to 1,000 newborn babies are abandoned every year in Ukraine.

Hope and Homes for Children has been working in Ukraine since 1998 when, at the invitation of the Government, we began the development of family-based childcare alternatives to institutional care.

We have developed a network of 65 family type homes, providing over 750 orphan and vulnerable children with the security and love of a family and the confidence to look forward to a happy and fulfilling future.

Since 2003, we have worked to develop a programme that prevents the abandonment of young children in maternity wards. We created the first two Mother and Baby Centres in Ukraine. This model has been adopted and replicated by the government and is recognised as best practice. As a result of this work, hundreds of mothers and babies have been enabled to stay together and have been spared a lifetime of separation.

In 2010, we closed the first institution in Ukraine. We had commenced work to close Barvinok Institution, Makariv in 2006, finding 60 children living in poor conditions. We carefully worked with the children, their families and the authorities to tailor plans that would ensure each child was assured of a family and the best possible future. Using our experience and expertise we developed services that prevent placement of children in institutions through providing support to vulnerable families.

Pictured: Small Group Home

“Yes, children need food and a bed, but parental love is more important to them.”

Pictured: Small

Group Home

Once the Centre and Small Group Home are fully resourced and opened in September 2011, the local authorities will take on the ongoing management and financial responsibility for the future costs.

The Ray of Hope Centre will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the history of childcare in Makariv, with no child in the region ever again facing a childhood spent in an institution.

The impact of the Centre will, however, be far more wide-reaching. We will be able to use this model and our experience for other regions in Ukraine, and in this way it will provide the catalyst for the overhaul of the childcare systems across the country, resulting in our ultimate goal of the closure of all institutions in Ukraine.

ELLE reportage with Olga Kurylenko about HHC Ukraine activities.

Helping us to make a real difference We are thankful to our main project supporters: St James’s Place Foundation, Zurich, Barcapel, UNICEF Ukraine, Winner Imports Ukraine and our many other dedicated supporters who have enabled us to achieve such remarkable results.

We are delighted to have initiated collaboration with Winner Imports Ukraine, our first corporate sponsor based in Ukraine.

“Winner selected Hope and Homes for Children because we believe your organisation has clear objectives, a strong history and a transparent work ethic. Our company is honoured to support Hope and Homes for Children in Ukraine and we wish you the greatest of success in transforming the lives of families across the country.”

Pictured: Small

Group Home

“I was born on April 4 1988 but I only began to live when I was four and my mother took me out of the institution” Yura aged 15