The Rachylas family from Izium city (Kharkiv region), which currently cares for six children, and the Alekseievy family from Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region), which raises seven children from institutions, moved to houses in Transcarpathia.
This means that all 14 families of the first phase received the keys to new homes under the “Room for Childhood” implemented by Olena Zelenska Foundation.
We are happy that parents and children will now live away from the front line and pursue their childhood and adult dreams.
So, the Rachylas family can arrange a rose garden near the house in the spring, and the Alekseievy family can buy their children the long-dreamed-of pets.
“It has been a year and a half since we started our “Room for Childhood” project. Today, it scales successfully, and we have good results. Thanks to our international partners, the Foundation provided new housing for 14 families in 8 regions of Ukraine. We will continue to work in this area because we still have essential needs for such housing. We have already launched the second phase of housing construction for large foster families who have lost their housing,” Nina Horbachova, Director of Olena Zelenska Foundation, says.
The second phase of the “Room for Childhood” project involves building at least 10 more houses for large foster families. The Foundation is already building the first facilities in the Poltava and Kyiv regions.
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In the first phase of the “Room for Childhood” project, the Foundation built 14 houses for families in eight regions of Ukraine (in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Zhytomyr, and Transcarpathian regions).
The partners of the first phase of the “Room for Childhood” project were the United Arab Emirates government, the Estonian government through the Estonian Center for International Development (ESTDEV), and the Australian Minderoo Foundation.
