The St. Panteleimon Regional Complex Rehabilitation Center for Children and Persons with Disabilities in Stebnik provides shelter to people from the eastern regions of Ukraine
With the assistance of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of Lviv Oblast, local self-government bodies of the Drohobytsky district, as well as with the help of volunteers and well-wishers, the institution created good living conditions and provided three meals a day.
The employees of the institution take care not only of children and internally displaced persons. They help and take care of the 67th battalion of the 103rd TRO brigade. Self-made energy bars and sewn balaclavas are handed over to the soldiers for the “zero-load”.
Since March 4, since the arrival of IDPs, 108 people have passed through the Center. These are mainly families with disabled children and persons with disabilities who were forced to move from Kharkiv, Severodonetsk, Slovyansk, and other cities of Kyiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions. As of today, there are eleven families in the Center, which is 32 people who were forced to leave their homes. Among them, 13 people with disabilities were sent to Italy and Germany for treatment.
The Center conducts educational and rehabilitation classes, to which parents bring their children from Stebnyk, Drohobych, and Truskavets. For each child, classes are selected that interest the child and are aimed at compensating for his developmental disabilities: fine motor skills, coordination of movements, improvement of memory, attention, and imagination. Rehabilitation teachers, psychologists, a speech therapist, a defectologist, and a social worker work with IDP children living in the Center every day.
With Kirill from Mariupol, they study geometric figures, make puzzles and puzzles. A 6-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who came from the Kyiv region likes sand therapy classes. Haside Ayan from Kharkiv likes Jenga, which contributes to the development of dexterity, attentiveness, cleverness, logical and spatial thinking. For the services of children, there is a physical therapy and massage room.
The employees of the facility willingly introduce the little residents to the history and cultural life of the Lviv region.
The children went on excursions to the local zoo, the Lviv Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Yurii Drohobych, and visited the “Huta Shchyretska” ranch in the village of Polyana, Mykolayiv district, where people come from all over to ride horses.