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Our 2014 year
Since the political changeover and as a result of the continuing hostilities in the east of the country, Ukraine has been going through a difficult time, and there is no end to this turmoil in sight. For the Centre “Our Kids”, too, 2014 has been a challenging and exciting year. Whereas many children and families in the country have been suffering from shortages of electricity and warm water, we are able to cover our needs with our modern geothermal heating system. Thanks to your support we have, with the exception of minor constraints, been able to continue providing our children with the appropriate care. Since November we have considerably extended our capacity and taken children from the war torn region into our social families. Our Centre is now almost operating at full capacity. We are pleased to enable so many children to spend Christmas in a warm and friendly family atmosphere.
31/12/2014 More info
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"Our Kids" celebrate New Year in America
Winter holidays for our children began from America. Our kids were invited to celebrate there winter holidays. We started our trip on December 21 from airport Boryspil. Now children from "Our Kids" staying in Texas. They enjoying theirs vocation, celebrating Christmas and New Year. These cheerful children`s smiles show us happiness and joy.
30/12/2014 More info
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International conference held at "Our Kids"
We succeeded to: share experiences of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the process of developing, monitoring and implementation of state policies in child care; exchange experiences in interest representation of children and families and network development; consider options for programmatic capacity development of Ukrainian CSOs engaged in influencing Ukrainian child care policy promote development of a Ukrainian Child Rights Network
18/12/2014 More info
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Our pre-christmas concert
On the 17th of December our children gave a pre-christmas concert as a part of preperation for the Second Cycle of our project „Inclusion“. The happy spectators saw different theatrical, dancing, musical and singing performances shown by the children.
18/12/2014 More info
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We accepted 17 children from ATO zone
This year was quite complicated for our country, enduring military confrontation and conflicts on Eastern Ukraine made significant political changes. Unfortunately we are far beneath the cessation of arms. In spite of everything, we are providing usual standards of child’s support in our Centre. Thanks to our sponsors, we considerably increased our opportunities. We accepted 17 children from ATO zone to our foster families. Now our Centre is overfulled. We are glad to shelter these children and to give them true family and holiday spirit of New Year.
12/12/2014 More info
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We held the first seminar entitled ‘Street-Based Youth Work’
On December 02-04, 2014, the first in the series of seminars entitled ‘Street-Based Youth Work: Clarification of Terms, Introduction to the Concept, and Assessment System’ took place under the mobile youth work project implemented in the Dnipro District of Kyiv by the Structural Subdivision of the German-Polish-Ukrainian Society in Ukraine in partnership with the German organisation Aktion Mensch. The seminar participants included social workers, psychologists, lawyers, and civil servants from the Dnipro District of Kyiv. Professors Walther Specht and Werner Kübler, German experts from the International Society for Mobile Youth Work in Stuttgart, delivered highly interesting lectures that gave the children’s rights experts a new insight into street-based work with persons facing vulnerabilities and Germany’s proprietary mobile work model. The participants also developed the toolkit for social environment analysis in the Dnipro District of Kyiv.
05/12/2014 More info