Tikvah Children's Home & Welfare Service– Odessa

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KEY FACTS

300 children currently live at the Home

2000 having been rescued either from the streets or from appalling conditions in state-run orphanages over the years.

The Home is committed to the care of homeless, abandoned and abused Jewish children, and actively strives to identify and rescue those in need.

Approximately 300 children currently live at the Home, with some 2000 having been rescued either from the streets or from appalling conditions in state-run orphanages over the years.

The Home offers a warm and supportive Jewish community for them to grow up in, as well as providing education to extremely high academic standards, winning major national education and arts awards in the process.

Those with special needs benefit from specific programmes to address learning disabilities and developmental problems.
There are two boys’ homes, one girls’ home, and an infants and toddlers’ home. Sixty-six also live in Tikvah accommodation while studying at the Tikva University.

In the single sex homes boys and girls receive the love and attention all children deserve. They are looked after by young guardians, doctors, nurses and psychologists, all of whom have been hired to ensure the children receive the best care possible.

The children enjoy a reintroduction to Jewish identity and culture, and, after an horrific start in life, these orphans and abandoned children’s lives are transformed, offering them hope (Tikvah) for the future.

In 2008, 66 children were identified as requiring special assistance, 60 children being from Tikvah's orphanage and the other six from the school. An additional 20 children are under observation, to determine whether special assistance might be required.

Tikvah has a professional team of experts who diagnose and treat the children's needs. Issues that arise include psychological problems, mental retardation, deficiencies in the muscular skeletal system, speech impediments and abnormal development in the structure of the brain.

WJR funding covers the cost of three defectologists and educational materials including books and supplies.