Why you should not give children from boarding schools expensive gifts and how to help children who are deprived of parental care
Remember, a few weeks ago we disassembled an online scam with New Year's gifts for children? Among other things, we wrote: if you want to help children, there are dozens of other ways. For example, give something to a child in a boarding school. There was a discussion around this advice and we decided to "dig" deeper.
We talked about gifts for boarding school students before the holidays with the communicator of the charity Hope and housing for children Daria Bayrak, who explained that she had not yet started working on the topic of orphanhood, also thought that gifts for children in boarding schools were good. In fact, not quite.
Daria talks about how the boarding school system in Ukraine is organized in general (and we give our own remarks on the text).
A few numbers
So, there are no orphans in boarding schools more than 8%. And over 92% are children, who have parents. There are many reasons why children end up in boarding schools, but the most common is poverty or family unrest.
That is, the vast majority of children have parents. And a child is better with his parents than in a "full" boarding school.
Source: Ukrainian Week, material by Hanna Chabarai “Boarding schools without orphans”
Оля – їй достатньо лише папір і фломастери, щоб малювати неймовірної енергетики ікони?…це справжній талант від Бога, у дівчини синдром шизофренія, але все чудово розуміє, вона мріє, щоб з її робіт зробили виставку..
Світлана – розмова майже не зрозуміла, хода не впевнена..але це не причина малювати чарівні пейзажі і пишатися цим!!! How she gently pushed the director and He understood that we need to show all the works of Svetlana, and sincerely rejoiced when everyone clapped their hands in admiration))
(From a trip to Bukovsky psychoneurological boarding school, where currently live 91 pupils / girls aged 5 years and up to 54 years)
Saturday, January 26, we visited Boryslav Boarding School Harmony Training and Rehabilitation Center where there are 71 pupils. Unfortunately, we were only able to see 21 of them. But the atmosphere of the institution and the sincere emotions of the children left a big mark in our hearts.
It is difficult to say how much heat ? and kindness to the pupils of this institution, despite the difficulties that befell them.
A student of the institution, Dmitry, he is also the president (they even have the post of Minister of International Relations), etc.gave us a tour to see how the children are studying and how their lives are built here.
I will not tell the details, but I will share what impressed me the most, and that is HELP.
I have seen how effortlessly, easily and without requests children who can move on their own (I will not say that they always do it easily) helped those in wheelchairs to get out of the dining room; as they were supported, climbing the stairs pulling up on the railings, as Dmitry carried walkers and prams of children from the first to the second floor….
Thank you to all the volunteers who joined the trip and who, due to various circumstances, were unable to do so.
Thank you to everyone who sponsored our trip and gifts to children and the institution.
Thanks to Vladimir and Taras for the cars and fast delivery to the destination.
And also thank you to the girls, Lili Lili Hair and Christina Yarema for your work and great haircuts))
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