“Djerela” Charity Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Djerela is a charitable non-profit organization founded by parents of families with mentally handicapped individuals in 1994. Today the Djerela organization services more than 150 mentally handicapped persons and their families within the Kyiv region; we have a daily center and dormitory in Kyiv, a rehabilitation and transit center in the village Bohuslav that is 120 km from Kyiv. We receive limited and insufficient support from the Ukrainian government and municipal organizations and therefore highly rely on support from volunteers, international organizations and governments. "Djerelа" Charity Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities was founded in 1993 as a project of Ukrainian Psychiatry Association, and was officially registered in 1996 with support of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry. "Djerela" Association unites about 180 families from the city of Kiev who take care of a person with intellectual disability. The mission of the organization is to unite efforts of parents and professionals for development and fulfillment of separate actions, projects and programs aimed at protection of human rights, rehabilitation and social adaptation of people with intellectual disabilities and their families; formation of positive public opinion on equal rights of the people mentioned.