The Situation in Crimea
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At the lower end of the age range, in the hospitals, there is an increasing number of healthy babies being abandoned at birth. Among them too is a growing number of HIV+ babies for whom the present health system cannot adequately provide for their special needs.
Though the current state child care is feeding the children, albeit with thin soup, orphans graduating the system are not well educated in life skills so they have very grim prospects of surviving beyond a couple of years in the adult world.
Ukraine's orphan laws are slowly beginning to change, making way for new and viable alternatives to the current state run system of childcare. Community childcare will place older orphans in foster families and on after-school apprenticeships programmes to better enrich their lives and equip them with skills for independent living as responsible members of society.
Currently the process of our work takes us into the area of raising the profile of children’s needs in the post-soviet third world country in the UK and working in close partnership with the staff of Light of Crimea Foundation on the ground in Crimea to ensure that whatever aid we send gets to where it is needed most.