ChildAid to Eastern Europe is our chosen charity of the year!
We have chosen ChildAid to Eastern Europe as our charity for the year 2022
ChildAid to Eastern Europe works tirelessly to transform the limited circumstances of vulnerable, abandoned and disabled children in Eastern Europe into ones of opportunity and hope.
By choosing to use our services, your support is directly contributing to the New Beginnings project and young orphans in Western Ukraine
A Brighter Future
Preparing orphans for independent adult life
Tens of thousands of children throughout Ukraine are abandoned to orphanages. Parents give up their children for many different reasons, including poverty, incarceration, and problems with alcoholism.
The vast majority of children living in orphanages have some sort of special need or disability. Most children living in the care of the state are “social orphans” meaning they have one or more living parents. They lead lives lacking in love and support and are all too often subject to abuse and violence. Many leave care with only a fragmentary education and most are only functionally literate or numerate. In addition, they need to be taught how to handle and manage money, how to buy and cook food and how to begin and maintain happy, healthy relationships safely.
New Beginning is based in the western city of Mukacheve. It has transformed the lives of many young people leaving institutional care. ALL of the New Beginning “graduates” go on to lead fully independent lives including employment, accommodation and starting their own families. Children’s Hearts in Kamianske estimate that just 1% of orphan graduates in that city will secure employment. Others will join the army. Most disappear.
Our programmes offer teenage orphans in Technical Schools hope and opportunity. They enter a 2-3 year life-changing programme which involves:
- structured courses for independent living including areas such as health and hygiene, time and money, risk of substance abuse
- formal and informal education to boost literacy and numeracy of young people who have only the very basics otherwise
- planning for independent living including further education, accommodation, employment, leisure and cultural interests, relationships and community engagement
- all of this is supported by accommodating the young people in a detached dormitory where they are cared for and protected from others
- introduction to church and the salvation offered by Jesus – but, this is their choice and is in no way forced upon them
The consequences are that they are prevented from encountering the problems so often confronted on leaving care; they are equipped to be responsible, confident and active members of society; assisted in securing a quality education and job-related skills; and above all, they are encouraged (but not forced) to give back to others in need and to become secure in the love of Christ.
Finding Acceptance
