Humanitarian aid for children in Kherson region: international experts to help work with vulnerable families
Kyiv • UNN
The Kherson Regional Military Administration and UNICEF are working together to help vulnerable children and families. They intend to create mobile brigades, provide psychosocial support, train social workers, and support spaces to support children.
Kherson Regional State Administration and child protection specialists (UNICEF) discussed further cooperation in providing assistance to vulnerable children and their families in the region. Also, material and technical assistance to educational institutions and the creation of children's spaces to support children and their parents will continue, UNN reports .
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A delegation from the United Nations Office in Ukraine (UNICEF), which implements projects aimed at protecting children's rights and providing financial assistance to foster and guardian families and adoptive families, visited Kherson. According to official information, Yaroslav Shanko, the deputy head of the Kherson Regional Administrative Office, met with UNICEF child protection specialists.
Among the key topics of discussion were child protection issues in Kherson Oblast and further cooperation in this area: creating mobile teams to work with vulnerable families, conducting lectures for parents to provide psychosocial support, and training social workers to provide quality services to vulnerable children and their families.
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It is also stated that work will continue on creating children's spaces to support children and their parents and provide material and technical assistance to educational institutions.
Recall
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