Only 10% of those who leave orphanage institutions in Ukraine more or less well fit into the adult life. The others after leaving orphanages often do not have a place to live and are not able to build their independent life in the society, which leads those kids to criminal world and prostitution. Often kids arrive to orphanage facilities soon after they are born and are brought up there as in an incubator – someone gives them meals, makes the cleaning, does the laundry, washes and serves them, that is why many of them do not possess the basic life skills.
40% of orphanage leavers become drunkards or drug addicts, another 40% become members of criminal groups, where they first become victims and then – if they stay alive – have to become criminals themselves, later finding themselves in prisons. 10% commit suicides.
Do not get me wrong: I am not trying to belittle the specialists working at orphanages – their work is difficult and important. According to Liudmyla Balym, director of the Department for Adoption and Protection of the Rights of the Child, “the orphanage system itself is destructive for the child and for the society. We are sure that there is no better form to bring up a child that a family”.
Who needs support more – a person with serious diseases, whose life is hung by a single hair and whose survival remains doubtful even with timely and expensive treatment? Or maybe a healthy orphan whom the state provides with meals and clothes, but whose prospects to fit into the society and leave a happy normal life are trifling? This is a complicated question, and there is no right answer to it. Everybody does what he can. Liudmila Zakharchenko gives five orphans not just her love, care and warmth of a real family. She gives those kids a ticket to a normal future, a chance to make smart decisions about their own lives. I am sure that it is worth a lot.
Liudmila is ready to accept two or three more orphanage kids to her home for them to have a real childhood and learn to stand steady on their feet, when they become grown-ups.
The efforts needed are minimal: due to peculiarities of Liudmila’s house scheme, to make another room of about 20 sq. m. it is only necessary to build two walls and make a roof above the new room. Due to the modern technologies and the use of big window units it is possible to do it without a massive foundation, and complete the work fast, with high quality and at low cost. The family and volunteers do a lot themselves, but it is difficult to perform some works without the relevant specialists.
UAH 35,314 are needed to purchase materials and pay for specialists’ services, with no account of the windows’ cost (the calculations are attached). If every visitor of our web-site donates just UAH 10, this amount may be collected less than in three days! Give a chance to orphans, please!
Liudmila Zakharchenko’s family needs financial support to purchase materials and perform construction of an additional room. If you want to help two more orphans find a family, you may transfer money to the account of Happy Child Foundation (payment details: charitable donation for FTCH Zakharchenko) or contact Zakharchenko family directly.
Banking details to make donations in UAH:
Bank: CB Privatbank
MFO: 305299
OKPO: 14360570
Account number: 29244825509100
Payment details: replenishment of card No. 4405 8850 1841 1048 Zakharchenko Liudmila Ivanovna
Calculation for the quick-mounting walls
Response of the department for children regarding the necessity to extend the residential area: p.1 p.2
