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Facts and news
.There are over 100,000 orphans in Ukraine.
.The older an orphan gets, the chances for his/her adoption drastically decrease.
.Each year many orphans between 15 to 18-years-old leave the orphanages.
.Most of these orphans have no one to turn to for help.
.About 10% of them will commit suicide after leaving the orphanage before their 18th birthday.
.60% of the girls will end up in prostitution.
.70% of the boys will enter a life of crime.
.Only 27% of these youth will find work.
These youth live in a country that labels them as "useless" and gives no assistance to turn their lives around. It is a society that has created its own problem by placing thousands of children in orphanages, and then when they come of age, they give them no assistance to lead a successful life. It is almost as if the system places them in trade schools to become "slaves of the State" to fill the low-income jobs of unskilled labor and remain the under-trodden, 2nd-class citizens that the majority of the population of Ukraine believe that they are.
In the trade school dorm rooms there are unclean conditions, sometimes four showers to 400 people, and much drinking, smoking, stealing and sniffing glue by the kids that reside there.
What do orphans need?
When older orphan kids (ages 17-21), were asked this question, they unanimously agreed that the first was LOVE. And the second was TIME: come and play games, or teach the children in the orphanage. They said that money and things such as clothes, candy, toys, etc. were not so important. Visits and contact are important.
What is important to grad orphans, who are now out of the orphanage?
1. Someone to trust
2. A person who is committed to help them
3. A flat - place to live
4. "Someone to hold my hand"
5. Moral support of friends
6. God's help
7. Moral support, not just clothes
8. To learn to be independent
When orphan kids were asked what the most painful thing about being an orphan was, this was their answer: To listen to people their own
age talk about their family life. These kids are too old to be adopted. But a synonym for adoption is "belonging". They need to belong to someone who loves them and someone they can trust.
OTHER STATISTICS:
.There are presently 6,000 adoptions a year (almost all foreigners adopting).
.Only 10% of orphans are in orphanages because of death of a parent, 90% are social orphans - due to alcoholism, abandonment, or imprisonment of parents.
.There are 450 orphanages or orphan homes in Ukraine. Of these: 50 are baby houses/ 100 are regular orphanages for ages 8-17/ 100 are boarding schools for specialized needs including learning disabilities/ 100 are shelters where 30,000 children live temporarily between leaving home and being assigned to an orphanage / 100 are private institutions, housing a total of 1000 children, mostly Christian efforts.
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