UPDATE! > 26/07/10 > WELL DONE!!! > Children’s NGOs convinced the authorities not to strengthen the residential system in Ukraine
There will be no new internat in Kyiv region, moreover Ministries are to report about the progress made in reformation of residential system for children, these and other decisions were made at special working meeting devoted to reformation of residential care for orphans and children deprived of parental care held on 23rd of July by Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports and headed by Minister Ravil Safiullin.
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21 July - from CRINMAIL 1184
"Ukraine: call to halt return to 'Soviet style' institutions" "Time warp"
Ukraine: Children's rights NGOs in Ukraine have called on the Prime Minister to scrap an order which they say would undo progress made in reforming the country's system for children without parental care.
The order sets out a plan for reviving and developing residential institutions for children in the country. It further requests local governments to encourage low-income families to send their children to study in residential institutions in a move that would penalise poverty.
"The State shouldn't support an outdated and entrenched system inherited from Soviet times which is more convenient for warehousing children rather than caring for them or finding families for children," said EveryChild in a statement.
EveryChild is organising an advocacy campaign with Hope and Homes for Children and other Ukrainian NGOs to prevent the order from coming into force on 1 September 2010.
The text of the appeal and the order can be found in English & Ukrainian at http://www.everychild.org.ua/index.php?hl=en.
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