“We have received information from the military more than once that they come across children who are left alone and have no adults nearby. Also, for example, in the Zaporozhye region, a number of children have been hospitalized for a long time without any medical reason. They have no legal status, which makes it difficult to build a new path for their life,” Lvova-Belova wrote.
The Commissioner for the Rights of the Child under the Russian presidency also said that with a team of advisers she visited each new region, where a plan of concrete steps was drawn up to save children.
Lvova-Belova said that there is an agreement with the Ministry of Education on the opening of representative offices of the Federal Center for the Development of Adolescent Socialization Programs and on the launch of street social work services. Her specialists, together with the local authorities, are working to find the street children. There is also an agreement to raise charitable funds to help repair, train a specialist team and improve the rehabilitation capacities of three boarding schools for disabled children located in new regions.
“Today it is very important to help colleagues integrate into the legal and organizational field of child protection in Russia”, concluded Maria Lvova-Belova.
