Social workers in Ukraine will receive new tablets to work with people released from captivity and their families. The project is being implemented by the Ministry of Social Policy with the support of IREX as part of the Ukrainian Rapid Response Fund programme in cooperation with the SpivDія charitable foundation. A total of 600 devices will be distributed, with the first batch of over a hundred already delivered to communities.
The equipment will be delivered to Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi regions and the capital.
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The Ministry of Social Policy explains that tablets will help specialists provide social services faster and with higher quality. This includes both support for those released from captivity and assistance to their families. Social services are determined on an individual basis: from crisis counselling and home care to social adaptation and integration.
Special attention is also paid to internally displaced persons. Services such as shelter, social support and emergency crisis assistance are available to them.
The Ukrainian Rapid Response Fund programme is implemented by IREX with the support of the US State Department. Its goal is to increase the resilience of the Ukrainian government, civil society and population in the context of full-scale war.
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