Love & care for abandoned babies Ukraine & Moldova

The support you have provided has helped us to maintain the care we provide in a State-run Baby Home. There are currently 47 babies (birth to 4 years) in 5 groups plus another 2 groups where 25 children visit for rehabilitation only on a one month programme.

All the babies have some form of developmental delays – no surprise as parents would be alcohol or drug addicts or extremely poor. Often the babies are fearful of all men – fathers beat them and their mums and there are no men in the home. We saw this for ourselves recently on a visit when one little girl cowered away from us three men.

Our two "implant" workers have been there for 12 years and in that time have built the trust of the State staff and substantially added value.

We have one group under our direction – ideally we would have staff in each group. In our group the children can play and have fun – others have little play and have an enforced disciple.

When the children move up from our group they cry to come back. Whilst the other rooms are in good repair ours show signs of wear and tear as the babies are free to play. In other rooms they just sit!

Your support helps us to provide diapers for all the children in the Home who need them – the government provides them for disabled children but not others. So we provide 2,400 diapers a month – 2 for each child in need per day. But our staff member has to mark each diaper with a number and a name so she knows that the child will get its diaper.

Giving these babies love and care at this early age can only help to create some foundation of what we must pray will be a better future than they could otherwise face.

ChildAid provides 100% of funding for a room in the Children’s Hospital in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine, in which babies and children who are orphaned through parental abandonment and neglect can be treated for their medical needs, cared for and loved.

 
This story illustrates the plight of the children our partners have cared for:
 

Anton was only one year and one month old when he came into our care. His parents were extremely young, both recently having themselves left an orphanage and possessing no parenting skills. The boy could not do anything normally expected of a child of this age and was undernourished. While in hospital he put on 5kgs in weight. In the meantime the parents were legally deprived of their parental rights and the child sent to the Baby Home.
 
 
Your support for this area of ChildAid’s work means that we can bring loving compassion into all these situations and at the nearby Baby Home too where we continue to supply much needed food and nappies.