We have made a proposal to expand their effect on the residential institutions and to join forces. For 20 years, the organization “World Without Borders” has been providing comprehensive assistance and support to children with disabilities living in 9 house-boarding institutions, as well as adolescents in conflict with the law staying in 4 closed type institutions, subordinate to the Ministry of Education, in social and pedagogical centers (with shelters), to the families of pupils of these institutions as well as the staff, seeking to improve the quality of assistance and support. During this difficult time, COVID-19 pandemic has forced the team to look for new forms and methods of work, to help children living in these institutions, who as never before need support and are at increased risk of engaging in an unequal battle with the infection.
The situation is aggravated by the lack of parental care and attention, the inability to communicate with volunteers, friends, relatives. Due to the anti-epidemic measures the staff working in these institutions and sometimes taking heroic efforts to protect children from external contacts and possible infection are also isolated. Being in this situation perhaps more than ever before, the staff working with the children also need support and inspiration. The quarantining in these institutions puts children and staff in a situation where communication with the world is possible only through communication through Internet. To support the staff, to give an opportunity to get advice and provide timely assistance, as well as to give the children they are working with the possibility of employment and communication is one of the urgent problems today. During this period more than ever before it is important to maintain contact with these institutions, offering them informational and psychological support and provide them with the opportunity to communicate with the outside world.
WWB has addressed the Internet providers asking to support the initiative to provide equipment and Internet traffic for the house-boarding institutions for children with disabilities, closed type institutions, social and educational centers. In turn, WWB is ready for purchasing part of the equipment with the funds of the projects and will transfer the equipment to the institutions.
Let's try to support those who live and work in these institutions, get closer, not leave anyone alone in the struggle against COVID-19!!!