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Project:

Get your Chance; towards a better future for institutionalized children and graduates of state boarding schools in Ukraine by improving social services and strengthening life skills

Together with the Ukrainian organisation Labour and Health Social Initiatives (LHSI; www.lhsi.org.ua) and the Ukrainian State Social Services for Family, Children and Youth (SSSFCY), we will implement the project. This is a 30 months project, running from April 2010 till September 2012.

The main problem for children without parental care in Ukraine is a lack of preparation for independent life of children in institutions (boarding schools) and lack of (coordinated) support for young people that have left institutions, putting them at high risk for development of psychosocial problems, unemployment and getting caught in the poverty trap and subsequent problems of drug use, alcohol abuse, prostitution, trafficking, crime and teenage pregnancy.

Many activities will take place within this project. To name a few:

-Training of Trainers for people working in the social protection system (to be able to provide better support to young people);

-Training in Life Skills for young people them selves;

-Support to young people in finding and maintaining work.

During the project new policies and training materials will be developed that are subsequently to be rolledout all over the country.

Project Manager Rutger van Oudenhoven

Van April 2010
Tot September 2012

Partner
Labour and Health Social Initiatives, Ukraine. www.lhsi.org.ua State Social Services for Family, Children and Youth (SSSFCY), Ukraine

Donor
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Matra Programme