HUMANITARIAN AID FOR FAMILY-TYPE CHILDREN’S HOMES (33,791 UAH)
At the end of December 2023, we provided assistance to three more family-type children’s homes of Svitlana Chubar, Zoya Tatarova, and Svitlana Raspertova for a total of 33,791 UAH.
Household goods for 11,515 UAH were handed over to Svitlana Chubar family.
The family has 8 children aged 7 to 17, living in the Lviv region.
Svitlana has 4 adult sons, but since childhood, the woman was worried about the fate of children who did not have parents and dreamed that she would grow up and have adopted children. So, in 2010, Svitlana and her husband decided to create a foster family. At that time, the couple was still raising their children and adopted Valya and Roma into their family. Valya has a visual disability but grew up to be a self-sufficient mother and woman.
In 2019 the couple welcomed three more children into the family, and in 2021 – four more. At the moment, two native children and six foster children are being raised and living in the family (six adults live their own lives, separately), and Svitlana and her husband already have 5 grandchildren.
Svitlana’s husband is a military man who defends our country on the front lines, so Svitlana spends most of her time raising children alone. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the family moved from Donetsk to the Lviv region for the children’s safety. “It is quiet and peaceful here, the most important thing is that the children have calmed down and feel protected.” – says Svitlana.
Every child in the family is special, everyone has their dreams and desires: 7-year-old Zhenya dreams of a children’s electric car; Vitaliy likes football, he wants to become a mathematician; Anton wants to be a military sniper (equal to his older brothers); girls Anya and Tanya want to be fashion designers, do manicures and have professional sets, Tanya likes to read books about love and sometimes fairy tales; Ivan wants to deal with cars and dreams of the phone; Oleksiy likes to cook in the kitchen; Natalka wants to have a big bear.
“A lot of money is spent on food products, so there is not enough for other needs. And I also have a dream – to buy a house for my children so that they will have a place to live when they leave us.” – shares Svitlana.
Household goods for 10,580 UAH were handed over to the family of Zoya Tatarova.
The family has 7 children aged 7 to 17, living in the Kirovohrad region.
Zoya and her husband Ruslan formed a foster family in 2014 and adopted 3 children. And since 2020, the family received the status of a “Family-type children’s home”, accepting 3 more children of their own into their family. Soon, 2 more boys became members of the family. Currently, there are 7 children in foster care (one adult left the family).
“We don’t have any children of our own, and that us why we decided to create a family-type children’s home.” Zoya shares.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, they have not changed their place of residence. There is always a need for household goods and tools for distance learning, which is especially relevant now, during the war. We have all school-age children, so they like various clubs, where they go with pleasure. Older boys attend sports sections: tennis, football, volleyball, chess, and checkers. Smaller children draw, sculpt, and embroider.
Everyone has the same dream now – the end of the war! A peaceful sky, a happy childhood, a future!
Household appliances for 11,696 UAH were handed over to Raspertova Svitlana family.
The family has 10 children aged 6 to 17, living in the Lviv region. (twice moved from the Donetsk region).
Raspertova Svitlana’s family-type children’s home was created in early 2014, and before that, since 2011, the family had the status of a foster family.
Svitlana and her husband do not have children of their own, so they decided to adopt children into the family, although this decision was not easy for the couple. At that time, Svitalana was working in a boarding school and understood that this was not an easy path, even if it was a noble one.
“We don’t have our children, so we love every child as our own.” – says Svitlana.
“The war has affected us since 2014, when we were forced to leave and never returned home. The hometown is occupied, the house was lost in 2015. We started a new life, but the war overtook us for the second time, and again all our dreams were destroyed. We once again had to leave everything we loved so much.”
10 children are raised in the family: 7 girls and 3 boys. They are all very wonderful and each of them has abilities. Someone dances, someone paints, plays the guitar, is engaged in acting, performs in the theater, sings, and is generally open and cheerful. Everyone has different dreams, but among other dreams, there is one for everyone – to RETURN HOME.
The assistance was provided within the framework of the “Help to family-type children’s home” program.
