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Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families

During a trip to the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, Governor Gleb Nikitin and Adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic on Children’s Rights Eleonora Fedorenko placed 24 children with foster families.

September 22, 2022
19:00
Nizhny Novgorod Region
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families.
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families.
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families.
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families. With Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin (centre).
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova with Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin.
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova held a working group meeting in the Nizhny Novgorod Region to reduce the number of children under four years of age in orphanages.
Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova during a trip to the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
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Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova brought orphans from the DPR to the Nizhny Novgorod Region for placement with foster families. Photo by the press service of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights

Orphans from among those who arrived from the Donetsk People’s Republic to Russia on September 16 have been placed, with Maria Lvova-Belova’s assistance, with nine foster families in the Nizhny Novgorod Region in groups of two to five siblings. The age of the children ranges from six to 17, with most of them being teenagers. Some have disabilities.

All the children have been granted Russian citizenship. They stayed in orphanages for a long time, and most of them had traumatic experiences due to the many years of hostilities in Donbass. Psychologists, social workers and other specialists have worked with the potential foster parents and children to get a sense of the mood, state of mind and readiness of the children to join foster families. The focus was on choosing the right parents for the children, not the other way round.

The orphans, 125 in all, who arrived in Russia from the DPR have been placed with Russian families in 13 regions, namely, the Astrakhan, Voronezh, Kursk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara and Chelyabinsk regions and Moscow. Work on placing orphans from the republics of Donbass began this spring at the initiative of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights. About 300 orphans from the DPR have already been placed with Russian foster families, and paperwork is in the works for another 104 children from the LPR.

As part of her working trip to the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Maria Lvova-Belova Lvova-Belova Maria Lvova-Belova MariaPresidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights discussed with Governor Gleb Nikitin Nikitin Gleb Nikitin GlebGovernor of Nizhny Novgorod Region social practices designed to support families with children in difficult life circumstances and progress of the Commissioner’s strategic programmes in the region. She also held a meeting of the working group on the project to reduce the number of children under four years of age at children’s homes. They agreed that, if necessary, the region will support measures for social rehabilitation of the parents who have completed treatment for alcohol addiction.

In addition, the children’s ombudsman met with two mothers who had turned their children over to institutions. In both cases, the families were facing hardship. They were offered assistance in gathering documents to make them eligible for benefits, putting them on a waiting list for a flat, and finding employment. Both mothers showed readiness to take their children back from institutions soon.

See also

Orphans to be adopted by Russian families arrived in Russia with assistance from Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova
September 16, 2022

Geography

  • Nizhny Novgorod Region

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  • Children
  • Regions
  • Social services

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  • Lvova-Belova Maria
  • Nikitin Gleb

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Published in section: Executive Office

Publication date: September 22, 2022, 19:00

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/69414

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