Family Care for Orphans in Transition
Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Many of Ukraine's older orphans are lost to crime, sex trades, or suicide. But there is hope.
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About Us

The Last Bell Ceremony marks the end of the schoolyear for orphans in Ukraine. For the 15- and 16-year-old graduates of Orphanage #4 in Zhytomyr, this means the end of life in an institution. They go on to trade school for two or three years and live in large government dormitories with minimal supervision.


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Orphanage Graduates

The children displaced from Ukraine’s broken families are placed by the government in institutions; there they become wards of the state whose guardians are orphanage directors. There are about 100,000 orphans in Ukraine, and 4,000 of those are in the Zhytomyr region.


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