Homes for Children in Ukraine

State-run institutions, orphanages and boarding schools were created in crisis response to disintegrating families during the Soviet era in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Mission 823 builds and operates homes for children in Ukraine.

Shattered by conflict, economic depression, persecutions and resulting desperation, families were destroyed by alcohol and drugs, criminal activity, domestic violence, incarceration and suicide. At risk youth in Ukraine include abused, abandoned, neglected and orphaned and refugee children.

The proposed solution, massive warehouses for children, rapidly deteriorated. These crumbling facilities were severely understaffed, underfunded and barely maintained. Frustrated workers and unsupervised children soon slipped into a hopeless abyss, hidden from the view of the rest of the world. These are the forgotten children.

We believe that children were created by God to be raised in healthy homes with loving families. Homes for children in Ukraine is the answer.

Our three-pronged approach to restoring these forgotten children is to:

1. Build trusting relationships with children in crisis and begin to understand their personal suffering.
2. Create Family Homes for children in Ukraine where trained, licensed and certified parents bring healing to traumatized children. Then we are able to lovingly and patiently restore them to physical, spiritual and emotional health through adoption and guardianship.
3. Provide a higher level of education that is critical for these children to excel and find their greatest potential to compete in the marketplace.