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Fund helped in theamount of: 23 051 901 UAH
LET’S IMPROVE CHILDREN’S LIVES PROGRAM
- Areas: Healthcare and Medicine; Science and Education; Culture and Arts; Sport
- The program operates since 2016
- Program area: the territory of Ukraine
- Recipient of charitable aid: facilities for orphan children, children deprived of parental care, and disabled children
Gifts for the Khmelnytskyi School No. 32
Do Good and Be Good
Development of Children’s Areas at Kyiv Administrative Services Centres
1000 Years from the Capital
Cooperation for the Bright Future
The First Time in First Class
Do You Wish to Know What Happiness Is?
There’s Always a Way Out! We Help Families Out of Dire Straits
Farm Milk for Special Kids
When Children Smile They Make this World Better
Vyshyvanka Day Online
Keeping the Right to Hope and Faith in Love: Help to Families in Crisis
Planting Season Is Now Opened
A Birthday Party during the Lockdown
Let’s take care of children – tender buds of our future
UWCF: Agents of Justice
Giving Is a Key to Happiness
UWCF Gives Children Yoghurts and Curd Snacks
Our First Art Practice at Bila Tserkva Children’s Residential Care Center in 2020
Taras Shevchenko: Literature for Every Age
Children That Most Need Attention and Care
Support for Multi-Child Families
Nativity Play 2020 for Special Kids- Campaign "Cartload of Books"
Bringing the Holiday Closer: Christmas Art Practice for Boys from Bila Tserkva Care Center
Giving New Life to Old Clothes
Autumn Visit to a Residential School
Girls from Psychoneurological Treatment Center Dream about the Sea
UWCF’s Star in Zhytomyr Philanthropists Square
Children’s Eyes Shining with Joy
Dairy Products: Tasty and Healthy
The Warmth of the Family Hearth
Together For a Happy Life! All-Ukrainian Craft Competition
17 October: The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Another Visit to Inmates of Psychoneurological Residential Center
First-Graders of Kyiv Region Received School Supplies
Long-Desired Baby Walker for a Little Princess from Avdiivka
Goodness Has No Borders
First-Graders Are Ready For School
Excursion along the Dnieper River for UWCF’s friends
UWCF Helps to Recover Strength and Energy
Boat trip along the Dnieper River: a wonderful weekend with friends from Donbass
Dairy products every day for the health of teenagers
How Beautiful in Eco camp at Summer
"Barney" bears for the summer mood
Improving the physical facilities of the orphanage
The screen broadens the horizon of young spectators
Good starts with you
"Just Like Me" festival is an event that everyone is waiting for
Very Special Trip. Book Arsenal - 2019
Milk products: benefits for children and adults
Celebration of the International Children's Day in Novoborova orphanage
Vitamins for improving children’s immunity
Sharing Good News
Helping the Needy
Gypsy evening: visiting Yesenia
Journey to Golosiiv Shrine
Spring has come to Rodyna
Sweet Treats for Tea Party
Moment of Kindness
Human Kindness Will Save the World!
UWCF has diversified winter holidays for children
First Steps on a Big Stage
Waiting for a miracle
Alice in Wonderland on the icering- Special Talents Project
- Campaign "Cartload of Books"
New books from UWCF are waiting for their readers- How Beautiful in Eco camp at Summer
The book is an eternal source of knowledge and motivation
Shevchenko’s literary contribution will live for centuries- Active Leisure Project
Grinch - those who stole a Christmas 
UWCF congratulated children from the east of Ukraine
New Year it’s a family holiday
New Year's Tale for Special princesses
New Year party for youth with disabilities
Delicious breakfasts for UWCF’s partners
UWCF got Gratitude at Grand Philanthropists Ball
Trip to Nova Borova Children’s Residential Care Home
Cookies for our friends from Zhytomyr and Kyiv
Gadgets at schools
Delicious gifts for internally displaced persons and residents of the East
The life of orphans has become brighter and more meaningful
TUC сookie for children
Magic cups for little fidget
UWCF at Arsenal Of Ideas - 2018
Travel to the past
We need to think about our future in advance- UWCF support internally displaced persons
Special First-Graders
Sweet Paradise – Dreams Come True!
Keep your hand on the pulse of mercy
Harmony of beauty and socialization of special childrenй
Together we make good
Children’s Guardian angels celebrate their holiday
Fashion show "Just Like Me"
Visiting the orphanage in Bila Tserkva
Lilac alley "Jist Like Me" in Pugachiv Orphanage
Mosaic of love and kindness
Friends made a holiday for children of Donbass
UWCF Visits Residential Care Home for Special Kids
Kyivan Rus Park Opens Doors to Girls from Puhachiv Children’s Residential Care Home
Clothing and footwear for those who need help
We give acrylic baths to make children's lives more comfortableм
Under the Cupid Sign: Inclusive Party on Valentine’s Day
Listen with VESELKA TV: Children for Children
Seven Things You didn't Know about Chinese Philanthropy
Reforming of Pugachivka Orphanage: is for the Best?
Christmas Gifts- Active Leisure Project
What pupils of the orphanage can learn through the sport
Day of boxing in Nova Borova Children’s Residential Care Home
UWCF supports power of the body in order to maintain the power of the spirit!
From success in sports to victories in life
Boxing is fun
Happy children - happy UWCF
Sports – strength, courage and endurance
Sport gives children with disabilities self-confident
UWCF flag on the top of Kazbek
Summer activities for children from Donbass
Active leisure at "Just Like Me" festival
Children in "Bukaha" - entertainment country
Who knows how to study well, has a good rest!
Spring Holidays at Karlson Park- Special Talents Project
Course to European integration of children from residential institutions
We Live In One World
Photo contest "We live in one world"
Helping is Beautiful or One Personal Story from Bangladesh…- Campaign "Cartload of Books"
To the World Children's Day
To All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries...
New Books Bring Celebration to Library and Readers
A cart of books to Avdiyivka from UWCF
Kindergarten Receives a Cartload of Books from UWCF
UWCF Makes Lives Happier
Inclusive youth party
Christmas Wonders
Winter Holidays in Rodyna Social Rehabilitation Centre
Instill a sense of style in the child
Giving happiness to the child
Fashionable and Happy Family
Pugachiv Orphanage received an ultra-fine Dishwasher as a gift
Love and Trust are Two Tina’s Karol Wings
Trick or Treat! – Halloween Is a Terrible Lot of Fun
Excursion to the Mystetskyi Arsenal
The Workshop Competition for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Birthday is the Most Eagerly Awaited Occasion for Every Child!
PHOTOEXHIBITION “CHILDREN OF THE WORLD”
The road will be mastered by the going
Changing your haircut means changing your fate
Маленька дівчинка з великою душею
The UWCF campaign dedicated to World Refugee Day
“Just like me” – an atmosphere of unity
Hug therapy for children with special needs
An older friend
Trendy hairstyles for special kids
Hairstyles for graduates
Realization of painted desires
Overcoming colds
The "Drawing my dream" contest for children with disabilities starts
BBQ season is open
The UWCF transferred office equipment to the Montessori Center
The day of beauty in Pushcha-Vodytsia
Spring has come and brought us beauty
Raising a successful and happy child
Bila Tserkva orphanage got a laptop from the UWCF
Little adventures in the world of Happy Comb
Children for Children
We look to the future with optimism
Children's world opens the door to the project "Happy comb"
To Do Good Is to Serve the Good Cause
A dip into the world of "The unusual story"
Specialized orphanage in Zhytomyr region celebrate St. Nicholas Day with UWCF
Charitable Foundation "United World Cultures Foundation" / UWCF, visited the “Family” rehabilitation center for children with disabilities
International Day of Persons with Disabilities Celebrated by UWCF Together with Students of Specialized School for Hearing-Impaired Children
UWCF Brings a Little Happiness to Kids at Bila Tserkva Children’s Residential Care Home
UWCF Campaign “Joy Is the Best Medicine” in Khmelnychchyna
UWCF helped Bila Tserkva Children’s Residential Care Home
UWCF Holds the Charity Dance Marathon in Support of Turbota Centre of Medical and Social Rehabilitation- Official data shows that approximately 104,000 children are being raised in Ukrainian institutional care facilities, i. e. residential care homes and children’s social protection institutions. However, only around 10,000 children have lost their parents or are deprived of parental care, all the rest have parents.
- In Ukraine, there are 774 residential care and child protection institutions, including 605 facilities subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (specialised comprehensive boarding schools for children needing correction of physical and(or) mental development, boarding schools for children needing social care, specialised comprehensive boarding schools with advanced study of particular subjects and courses, boarding lyceums, boarding gymnasiums, boarding colleges, comprehensive sanatorium boarding schools, orphanages, education and rehabilitation centres), 131 facilities subordinated to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine (children’s residential care homes, centres for children’s social and psychological rehabilitation, children’s shelter care facilities), and 38 child care centres subordinated to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
- According to the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights, on the average 250 children are placed into Ukrainian institutional care facilities every 3 days, and every 35th child is being raised at a residential facility of the appropriate type.
- For financing residential care facilities, the state allocates more than UAH 5 billion, but 70% of this amount are used for payroll expenses, 11 % for utilities, and only 12% are the direct expenses for the care of children (meals, treatment, clothes, footwear). As can be seen, the total amount spent is huge, but given the number of such institutions and children in them, as well as the percentage-based distribution of available financing, it appears to be impossible to provide children with all necessary things using only these funds.
- Another problem of raising children in care institutions is the psychological side. No matter how attentive and careful child minders in orphanages are, still they will never replace real parents and the joy of being raised in a family. Besides, in residential care facilities children do not develop the social skills needed for every person to live in society. As researches show, inmates of orphan boarding schools are most afraid to complete their studies there, haunted by the concerns of whether they will be able to get good education, profession, find a job, a place to live, and have enough money for clothes, food, and medicines.
- These children need help from society, and only adults are able to create appropriate conditions for children’s growth and painless adaptation to the social environment.
- Objective:
- create favourable conditions for children growing up in orphanages, residential care facilities, by providing material support to such institutions;
- improve the psychological condition of orphan children, children deprived of parental care, and disabled children;
- ensure rapid adaptation of orphans and disabled children to the community after leaving children’s institutional care facilities.
- Techniques and methods:
- Searching for benefactors, fund raising to provide assistance to facilities for orphan children, children deprived of parental care, and disabled children;
- Organizing psychological trainings and entertainments for orphan children, children deprived of parental care, and disabled children;
- Providing opportunities for children’s treatment, health improvement, rehabilitation;
- Organising cultural, educational, and sporting events involving targeted groups of children;
- Inviting children from orphanages to attend cultural and educational events to support them and facilitate their comprehensive development;
- Information support to children’s institutional care facilities;
- Engaging volunteer organisations in the project’s implementation.
- Cooperation:
- central governmental and local authorities, charitable organisations, volunteer organisations, celebrities.
Develop Children through Play
Cartload of Books for “Rodyna”
Children with Disabilities Showed Their Dreams in Kyiv Rehabilitation Center
Temper Your Character