To be a group of friends supporting young people with disabilities or leaving orphanages in finding their place in the world
We believe that every person has a unique dignity and, therefore, the right to have a good consideration of themselves and to be appreciated by society
We want to be open to people and to new challenges
We want to be a group of friends that constantly expands, we want to be close to others and to share our lives
We want to improve our ability to understand, to welcome and to listen to others, in order to reach common decisions and to work together
We have a constant desire, that arises from self-love and love of others, to gain and share new knowledge and new abilities
We strongly value working with our partners, thanks to our cooperation we achieve goals that exceed our expectations
Social integration
We realize an integrated and multidimensional program (housing, psychosocial, employment) to help young people with disabilities and young people leaving orphanages to start living independently.
Objectives:
Partnership and promotion
We involve more and more partners among the Emmaus’ friends and join our forces with the social sector organizations and business companies that share our values. Together, we build a community that accepts and offers opportunities to young people with disabilities and young people leaving orphanages.
We want to be open, transparent, and effective in facing the problems and the opportunities related to the social adaptation of our beneficiaries. We want to involve our partner institutions, business companies and society in the promotion and the creation of cultural events.
Objectives:
Emergency
We respond to the needs arising from the war
Objectives:
Executive director
Field officer Ukraine
Coordinator
Manager Emergency project in Kharkiv region
Financial Manager
Tutor and coordinator of educational sphere
Coordinator of “Bottega” Emmaus
Designer
Head of the Board, translator, director of the “Dante” Centre for European Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine
President of the La Traccia school, director of the company Sici abitare, member of the organization Amici di Cultura, Bergamo, Italy
Director of the Centre for Development of the Person and Psycohlogical Help “Vita Nova”, psychotherapist, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Founder and director of the Rehabilitation Centre SIM-PATIA, Como, Italy
Technical director Amarelli&partners, Milan, Italy
Enterpreneur, director of the goldsmith’s workshop UMAX, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2010
Our story was born from a few encounters. In October 2010, a public lesson was organized in Kiev with Rosalba Armando, founder of a support center for single mothers in Novosibirsk. This lesson was attended by Inna and Aleksander Filonenko, Lali Liparteliani and Andrej Domanov, who, impressed by that testimony, began the construction of a non-profit organization in Kharkiv. After six months of legal preparation and consultations with Rosalba, the NGO “Emmaus” was officially registered in June 2011. The organization chose a particular field of action: as volunteers they began to attend the Kharkiv special training institute No. 8 for children with disabilities and orphans in order to prepare these children for university entrance exams.
