A Jewish-sponsored foundation will help Ukrainian orphans find families.
The Aleksandr Feldman Charitable Foundation recently launched its Let’s Protect Childhood project.
Feldman, a Ukrainian lawmaker, told JTA that his foundation will start with orphans and children without parental custody living in Kharkovsky region boarding schools before spreading the project throughout Ukraine.
Informational materials will be screened on Ukrainian television. Stories about orphaned children also will be posted on the foundation’s Web site, www.feldman.fund.org . Feldman believes that regional and other national mass media will join the project.
“Our aim is to help children without parental custody to create/find family, and to put an end to the outdated boarding school system in Ukraine,” Feldman told JTA.
Along with the foundation, the project will be managed by the Ukrainian ministry for family, youth and sport.
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