🏆 Today we received the Better Care Awards for our case supporting Roma families in the Kharkiv region.
We feel joy mixed with quiet reflection, because behind this award stand the stories of people who have spent many years surviving on the margins of the system.
❤ At the heart of this story is Larysa Veselianska. It is “Mama Lara” who has been working with Roma families since 2014 — that’s how they call her. She knows every difficult address, every uncomfortable conversation, and every moment when someone must persuade, search, explain, ask, support. Larysa gave these families a chance to be seen. Our team is proud to stand beside her and support where people and communities are sometimes left alone.
🐰 We are grateful to the Coordination Center for the Development of Family-Based Care for bringing together such diverse practices and creating space for professional stories that usually don’t reach the news.
🐣 We thank the jury for carefully reviewing every case and giving our work a chance to be heard at the national level.
🐱 And we sincerely thank the other participants — because they remind us that we all share the same goal: for children to be safe, with their families, in communities where they are noticed and supported.
A special moment was the opening of the ceremony by the First Lady, Olena Zelenska. This shows that the topic of family support and returning children to a family environment is truly a national priority.
An award is pleasant, but it doesn’t change the essential. Tomorrow there will be new challenges, new stories, new families who need help here and now. Our purpose remains the same: to make sure children have a chance for a normal childhood and simple human dignity.
We continue our work.
📌 The full material with the story of the Roma families can be read at the link https://texty.org.ua/fragments/115756/yak-zhyvut-romski-rodyny-pereselenci-na-harkivshyni-dokumenty-shkola-uperedzhennya/
