Population 48.4 million (Source: World Bank 2003)
Hamlet has supported the development of a small (though growing) network of self-help groups and NGOs in Ukraine since 1997, and we currently have links with 4 organisations. They are:
In 2002 Hamlet's partner organisations the Social Development Support Agency and Friends Union hosted the Hamlet regional training workshop looking at the development of employment and social enterprise.
Agenstvo Spryiannia Socialnomu Rosvytku (Social Development Support Agency) with Soyuz Druzey (Friends' Union)
Olga Vasylchenko - Director of Community Centre
Board members: Nikolay Noshchenko, President
Nadia Timoshenko
Svitlana Shneydina
Tatyana Kicha
Yuriy Danko
Address: PO Box 111, Kyiv 01010, Ukraine
Tel. (+380 44) 216-67-22, (+380 44) 466-80-92 m
Fax: (+380 44) 216-67-91
Email: FriendsUnion@torba.com
sdsa@bigmir.net
Friends Union Community Centre, an NGO for people with mental health problems, is part of Social Development Support Agency (SDSA), the major purpose of which is to support civil society development through the improvement of the social protection system; to contribute to the creation of civil society through providing social services and co-ordinating the efforts of the state with NGOs in social areas, especially in mental health.
One of our main priorities is to work with users and ex-users of mental health services. Special emphasis is placed on supporting the creation of self-help groups and community centres for people with mental health problems.
We are open for users and ex-users, who want to communicate with other people with mental health problems. We try to create a supportive and secure space for communication and development for these people, their family members and professionals in this sphere, and also provide communal work methods and psychological aid. We try to help users to improve their social position, standard of living, inner state and interpersonal relations.
In recent months SDSA, in addition to all its previous activities, has been carrying out two new projects:
- The development of an employment project for members of Friends Union, the first of its kind in Ukraine.
- Advocacy of benefits reform.
We have also taken part in a number of international conferences, workshops and seminars; prepared issues of our magazine; created a video-film and produced a radio programme about our Centre.
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Otrazhennye Miry (Reflected Worlds)
Leader of Organisation: Volodomir Horb
Address: Ukrainian Psychiatric Foundation, Vul. Frunze 103-A, Kyiv 254655, Ukraine
Tel: +380 44 468 41 85
Fax: +380 44 435 02 71 or +380 44 463 74 75
Email: uuupa@upa.freenet.kiev.ua
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Podderzhka (Support)
Main contact: Vladimir Pishnyak
Address: 58-A Rokosovskogo St, kv. 60, Chernigov, Ukraine
Tel: +38 (0) 4622 42379
Email: support@gls.cn.ua
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VITa Charitable Foundation, Kyiv
Leader of Organisation: Tatjana Kozhurina
Address: ap.122, 3/15, Baggoutovskaya str.
Kyiv 04050, Ukraine
Tel: +38 044 2162743
Fax: +38 044 2162743
Email: tatjana@vita.kiev.ua
VITa aims to provide help, support and various services for the users and ex-users of mental health services, methodological and informational support, and aid in the protection of social and economic rights of the users.
In relation to users and ex-users, our organisation's policy is:
- To reduce stigma in society and to work together with mass media in order to fight stereotypes about the users;
- To protect the social and economic rights of the users;
- To unite users and their relatives into self-help groups;
- To encourage professionals to take part in the organisation of educational and self-help programs;
- To disseminate information to users as widely as possible;
- To find, develop and implement new types of activity that can help users' integration and adaptation;
- To establish dialogue with representatives of official institutions;
- To contribute to the worldwide study, implementation and development of methods of tackling the problems of users of mental health services.
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