Coney Hill Baptist Church support twelve mission
May
ChildAid has served in Ukraine for most of its 50-year history. Three of our partners are long-term, and one started after the war began.
Faith
Around 75% of Ukrainians identify as Orthodox. There are two main branches, one aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate and the other independent. The former has taken greater precedence since the invasion, with faith and national identity intertwined. Faith remains a significant influence in social and national life, providing spiritual support and fostering community cohesion.
Kamianske
On the Dniper River in the east, this city is close to the front line. ChildAid’s largest partner is Children’s Hearts, whose faith shapes the project’s values, relationships and long-term commitment to families living in extreme vulnerability. Over 650 children are supported with emergency aid, mentoring, life-skills, education, emotional, family and spiritual support. Refugees from both the 2014 and 2022 invasions are cared for.
Makariv
Just west of Kyiv, this city was briefly occupied by Russian forces. Whilst ChildAid owns 2 hectares of land to build a community and children’s centre, such work will not commence now for a considerable period. Instead, in the basement of a Baptist church, a rehabilitation centre provides the only such care in the region for children with physical disabilities and autism.
Mukachevo
In the West, this project provides life-changing programmes for teenage social orphans. We built a family foster home some years ago, which also offers a loving, Christ-filled home for 10 orphans. The project works extensively with the many internally displaced families from the east.
Uzhhorod
The western border of this project, run by volunteer business ladies, supports over 400 children displaced from the east and living in orphanages. Each of these partners is also using ChildAid’s purpose-designed trauma care programme, Finding Steady Ground. Practical tools and strategies strengthen emotional well-being, help make sense of the young people’s experiences, and recognise their strengths, helping them establish steadiness, hope, and new possibilities, one step at a time.