*DATA GATHERED IN 2024, UPDATED ANNUALLY
Tragically, we know that orphans and vulnerable children and families will be impacted the hardest by this crisis. As conflicts continue the need to safely evacuate, care for, and provide for the orphans and vulnerable children and families of Ukraine is greater than ever before!
Over thirteen years ago, A Family for Every Orphan began serving vulnerable children and families in Ukraine. Today, we have a dozen Christian partners spread across the country that are providing emergency relief services to thousands of children and families in Ukraine, while ministering to their spiritual needs.
Our partners in Ukraine are working tirelessly to evacuate these children to safety in the west and across the border, ensure food and necessities are provided, and minister to and help vulnerable children and families who stayed behind. This vital work cannot be done without your support!
Strengthening at-risk families.
Mobilizing churches and Christian communities to support children and families.
Supporting orphans to find loving families.
Trauma care services and psychological aid.
Rescuing children who have been abducted to Russia and reuniting them with their families.
As eastern Ukraine remains under heavy conflict, all evacuations and other support services remain critical. In addition, as refugees from the east continue to settle in more stable regions in central and western Ukraine, and millions of Ukrainians have returned to Ukraine, millions are desperately trying to find employment and restart their lives. Family strengthening efforts have expanded exponentially.
Tragically, we know thousands more children have been orphaned since the start of the war. Our partners continue to raise up and support foster and adoptive families and advocate to see more children placed in families, not in institutions.
Seeing children placed in families and not institutions is a desire not only of AFFEO, but of President Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska. In alignment with other members of the EU, Ukraine has committed to shift away from a system of institutionalization for children without parental care and move toward a system of family-based care.
It is a significant undertaking in a time of war, but a necessary one to ensure children are protected and given the right to grow up in a safe and loving family.
Some specific ways that AFFEO partners protect children and stabilize families and communities to advance family-based care:
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