On October 1, International Charitable Fund “Olexander Feldman’s Fund” launches the national informational project Let’s Protect Childhood, the task of which is to help orphan children and children deprived of parental care find a family.

As part of the project, Channel 5 will be showing stories about children left without a parental care, dwelling in boarding schools and dreaming of a family.

Today, involvement of informational campaigns in solving orphan children issues is an effective way of promoting the national adrogation and other forms of family upbringing of orphan children and children deprived of parental care.

The project will cover children of all age categories, but children aged 10-18 will be placed an emphasis on, because it’s the most complex children category with regard to the national adrogation and establishment of foster homes.

The first stage of the information campaign stipulates the involvement of children from boarding schools at Kharkiv oblast. Subsequently, it’s planned to cover boarding schools at other oblasts of Ukraine. The end of each video commercial will feature a phone number of the Service for Children’s Affairs at Kharkiv Oblast State Administration, wherein one can obtain information on a specific child.

Informational video commercials are to be broadcasted daily, and the project duration is not limited in time. Stories about children will be placed on the website of the International Charitable Fund “Olexander Feldman’s Fund” (www.feldmanfund.org). The project is expected to involve other national Ukrainian and regional media.

Our objective is that each of children in Ukraine deprived of parental care can find a family, and the outdated boarding school system of upbringing orphan children would cease to exist. The International Charitable Fund “Olexander Feldman’s Fund” lends support to the program on reforming boarding schools in Ukraine and implements its own program on protecting rights for family upbringing of orphan children and children deprived of parental care.

The Let’s Protect Childhood informational project is implemented in cooperation with the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports of Ukraine and under the auspices of Minister thereof Yuri Pavlenko.

Note: As of today, Kharkiv oblast is home for 5700 children deprived of parental care, 2000 of which can be provided with a family. Taken as a whole, over 100,000 orphan children and children deprived of parental care live in Ukraine, and 35,000 of them can be settled in a family.