Our Work in Ukraine Featured on the BBC World Service

Our groundbreaking project to close the first institution in Ukraine was featured on the BBC World Service on Friday 6 March.

BBC journalist Marina Denysenko visited our projects to document the importance of children growing up in families. The piece highlighted some of the challenges in our work, including how we have to change harmful attitudes.

Marina said, “Stereotypes need to be broken down because there are still a lot of parents in Ukraine who think that institutions are not bad for children; that their children will have a better standard of living than they can provide and so this is a good enough reason to put their children into them.”

During the six minute piece Marina profiles a country for whom preventing child abandonment is hampered by the fact that social workers are still rare and did not even exist in the Former Soviet Union.

Between Friday March 6 and noon Friday March 13 the piece can be listened to on the BBC World Service website by clicking on ‘listen Fri’ on the top right of the page.

March 2009

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