PRESS RELEASE

Funding from the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum enables knowledge
exchange amongst professionals working to improve the lives of children with
disabilities in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.
London, United Kingdom, 21 July 2016
The project: Communities, Classrooms and Civil Society: Sharing experience and developing
regional approaches to addressing the rights and needs of children with disabilities in Belarus,
Moldova and Ukraine was selected by the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum for funding
through its 2016 Regranting Scheme. This project will support existing regional commitment to the
rights and needs of children with disabilities and aid the development of regional approaches to this
end. Too often, professionals working in this area do so in isolation, without the benefit of regional
knowledge exchange. This work will address this challenge by promoting the exchange of
experience, skills and innovation developed in each country.
Led by UK-based charity HealthProm, the project will be carried out in collaboration with local
partners the Belarusian Childrens Hospice, Moldovan NGO Partnerships for Every Child and the
Ukrainian Charity Fund Early Intervention Institute, Kharkiv. It will address issues faced by each
of the countries involved, which affect not only children with disabilities themselves, but also the
professionals and advocates who champion their cause. These include protection of the human
rights of children with disabilities, access to support services; engagement of parents of disabled
children; and societal stigma towards disability.
The project will result in a Regional Forum Event held in Kyiv in November 2016, bringing
together experts from various professional sectors in each country to exchange knowledge, skills,
and practice. A regional professional network will also be created to support and nurture ongoing
regional exchange.
The grant will run for 7 months, from May to November 2016. For further information, please
contact HealthProm directly.

A project implemented by HealthProm with

local partners: Belarusian Childrens
Hospice, Partnerships for Every Child and
Charity Fund Early Intervention Institute,
Kharkiv.
Contact:
Lauren Foster Mustard
HealthProm
+44 (0)20 7272 7356
Lauren@healthprom.org
www.healthprom.org

Through its Re-granting Scheme, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) supports
projects of EaP CSF members with a regional dimension that will contribute to achieving the mission and
objectives of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.
The donors of the re-granting scheme are the European Union, National Endowment for Democracy and
Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The overall amount for the 2016 call for proposals is 307.500 EUR. Grants are available for CSOs from
the Eastern Partnership and EU countries. Key areas of support are democracy and human rights,
economic integration, environment and energy, contacts between people, social and labour policies.