Meeting essential needs of at-risk children in Ukraine

WJR support for at-risk children in Ukraine directly benefits 9,225 children and their families across the country by meeting their most essential needs.

When parents can no longer sufficiently provide for their children, due to financial or other difficulties, the younger generation can be simply left to go without. Those with physical disabilities or special needs suffer from a lack of support and social stigma. Impoverished children fall quickly behind their peers in education and often fail to receive necessary medical care, new clothing, a warm home in the winter or simply enough food, putting their health at-risk at such a young age.

WJR funds services that target at-risk children and their families in Ukraine, through the following provisions:

·         Nutritional support for children whose parents’ stressed finances would struggle to feed them properly otherwise, and come in the form of hot lunches, meals-on-wheels, food cards and packages

·         Homecare and winter relief for families with young, vulnerable children

·         Health care services, including medical care, medications and rehabilitative equipment loans.

·         Early childhood educational and development support for children aged 0-6 and their families through professional needs assessments, recreation groups, medical consultations, parent groups and childcare essentials

·         Day centre services and activities, after-school programming, educational and psychological support

·         Vocational training, job counselling, parenting courses, and volunteering opportunities for parents of at-risk children