More than 150 pupils of the children’s home “Sonechko” of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council live in the village of Zhuravno, Lviv region.
On April 6 and 7, representatives of two regions — Lviv and Zaporizhzhia — worked out joint solutions to improve the needs of children from the “Sonechko” children’s home of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, who were evacuated to Lviv Oblast. Currently, there are 151 pupils of this home in our region.
On the first day of the visit, on April 6, representatives of the children’s service of Lviv OVA, LOVA health care department, Lviv regional CSS, the Ministry of Health, the National Social Service of Ukraine and experts of the IBO Partnership for Every Child visited the “Zaporizhia Regional Specialized House child “Sonechko”, temporarily placed in the village Zhuravno, and also held a strategic planning session on meeting the needs of the children of the “Sonechko” children’s home.
On April 7, they visited the Lviv Regional Specialized Children’s Home “Malvy” and discussed the next steps in the process of ensuring all the interests of the pupils within the round table.
“Our primary task is to think about children, their comfort and development. Provide good conditions both for those who have lived there for a long time, and for those who were forcibly evacuated from dangerous or temporarily occupied territories. Usually, most of them are delivered to Lviv Oblast, we don’t always have a place to place them, but we try to do everything necessary for this. In particular, more than 20 million hryvnias were allocated for the repair of an orphanage in Zhuravno. There are communities that are also ready to help financially. It is not difficult to implement important initiatives when there is understanding and a clear goal. We are ready for joint actions, we are determined to cooperate and organize our work”, – emphasized the deputy head of Lviv OVA Ivan Sobko during the round table.
The events were held within the framework of the project “Support of young children in the conditions of war”. Its goal is to contribute to the improvement of care and rehabilitation of young children, who during the full-scale war are brought up in children’s homes of the Lviv region, to accelerate their placement in a favorable family environment, taking into account the best interests of each child.
“Lviv region has made a significant contribution to ensuring the needs of children: their accommodation, food. But children should be brought up in families. And we will all do our best to realize the right of every child to a family,” added Volodymyr Vovk, Deputy Director of the Department for Rights Protection and Ensuring Equality Standards of the National Social Service of Ukraine.