The German-Polish-Ukrainian Society (GPUS) supports the democratic and economic transformation taking place in the countries of Eastern Europe. The Society, formerly the German-Polish Society for Eastern Europe, was founded in 1995 as an international non-profit organization under German law. It is based in Berlin, Germany. Its mission is to support civil society formation in post-communist countries within appropriate regulatory frameworks, to promote social and community values, and to create competencies for sustainable development.
The GPUS in Ukraine works toward a civil society based on the rule of law wherein the rights of children and young people are effectively realized with their active participation and in which natural resources are carefully utilized. Its mission is to serve children and youth and to protect their lawful rights by designing, implementing and managing innovative public-private partnership projects aimed to raise living standards in Ukraine to a European level.
Where they operate
Headquarters Location
prosp. P. Tychyny 28-B, 02152
Kyiv
Ukraine
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
GPUS in Ukraine programs and projects include:
- The Ukrainian Child Rights Network: a representative expert and coordinating body, which was formed by a group of non-governmental organisations in 2014 to ensure the realization of child rights according to the UN convention on child rights and the incorporation of international and European standards of child rights safety by increasing the influence of Civil Society Institutes in the development, realization and monitoring of government policies in the area of child rights and social services development for families with kids in Ukraine.
- Centre for Children in Need "Our Kids": a pilot project providing direct and indirect aid to children, youth and families who have fallen on hard times through temporary shelter, foster care, family reintegration, adoption, social and psychological rehabilitation, and other services
- Sociocultural Inclusion Program: a socio-cultural project which is divided in different cycles. Each of them lasts 9 months and ends with a special artistic performance. The concept behind the performance is to get orphans and children deprived of parental care working with their talented peers under the direction of distinguished international and national artists.
- Confident Parents Mean Confident Children: a series of training sessions for staff, staff members of partner organizations, caregivers, foster parents, and adoptive parents at the Centre for Child Protection, "Our Kids," under the auspices of the Structural Division of the German-Polish-Ukrainian Society in Ukraine