CRY for Street Children and Orphans

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Father's House International Charity Foundation
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans" (Jam.1:27)

Father's House (Otchiy Dim) is an excellent Christian children's home in Petrivske (Google Earth link) village, on the outskirts of Kiev, where up to 50 young children are housed, fed, clothed, and educated. This Home offers short to medium term accommodation. A more settled environment where abandoned, orphaned, and children living on the streets can be encouraged to return to education, undertake vocational training and start to consider their future, including the possibility of returning to supported living with their family.

Father's House and new extension

However, the Home is just a part of a complete and well planned outreach programme.

Field Workers...

Meet and establish regular contact with the child on the streets.
Give first aid, food, clothing and more extensive medical care including dental help at clinics and hospitals.
Build trusting relationships through continuing love and provision - showing them that there are no hidden motives to use, hurt, or manipulate them.
Obtain as much information as possible about the reasons why the child is living on the street, the existence and location of parents or relatives and establish his/her overall status.
Help develop a specific program for the child with the main goal being either to: return them to their family if viable; place them in a safe orphanage; and/or arrange rehabilitation.
Teach about personal hygiene and respect for one's body.
Organise activities to renew the child's dignity and childhood such as life skills; crafts and general creativity; spiritual guidance; sports; games etc. Some are invited to the annual Island of Treasures summer camp.
Father's House, other non-profit organisations and local churches also work with children in state-run shelters & provide staff to care for them.

The various elements of this ministry are:

Ministry to Street Children

Island of Treasures (summer camp)

Centre of Social Care for Children (Father's House)

Family Program

Training Centre

With Love to the People

Children for Children

CRY's contribution is shared funding of these programmes - for more detailed information visit www.otchiy-dim.org

If YOU would like to join and support us in this work - visit our c hild sponsorship page and sign up to sponsor a child at Father's House. Payments can be made through our CRY UK (in £GBP) or CRY USA (in $USD) registered not-for-profit charities.

Street Outreach & State Shelter
Information being updated...

Island of Treasures Summer Camp
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Information still being updated...

Special Boarding School for Blind Children #5
CRY was introduced to the Kiev Special Boarding School No 5 for Blind Children by the Kiev YMCA who were considering ways of organising activities, summer camps etc for the children. Founded as a charitable institution by the Tsar in 1884, it became a State school from 1917.

Kiev school for blind children

The school currently caters for 134 children from 6 years of age, divided into 16 forms and one pre-educational group. The school aims to meet the child’s emotional and spiritual needs, to provide social and psychological rehabilitation and builds in good moral values, respect and responsibility. The blind school receives very little State funding and badly needs modern equipment and resources to work with. Also many of the blind children who attend this school come from very poor and often blind families where there is great need.

Kiev school for blind children

It is commonplace in Eastern European culture for disabled people to be excluded from mainstream society making it very difficult for them to find jobs and gain social acceptance. However, students who successfully graduate from this school are able to enter the universities and institutes of Ukraine. The school is proud of its students who have graduated in law, finance, and the arts, and many have qualified as musicians and teachers.

Kiev school for blind children

CRY's support has included substantial grants to replace failed ex-Soviet lighting systems, replace dangerous perimeter fencing, supply of food supplements etc.

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