Today there’s some pretty good news in that domestic adoption has become the norm in Ukraine. In the blog link below I describe the activism of social business and the influence it had.

http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=136324

Regards

Jeff

Over the last 5 years aid funding to prevent HIV/AIDS has been in the order of $250 million while over the same period official HIV infection rates had rocketed to 1.61%. In a country where this is far more taboo than UK the estimate is likely to be conservative.

Our primary social target were children, either institutionalised or on the streets and the vicous cycle of poverty, that sees them born into succeeding generations. What we attempt to do is in effect the total opposite of Sir Elton John’s effort to help young Lev and more aligned to what Sir Ronald Cohen prescribes as a social investment bond. Imagine what these people might do in concert, should they wish to work together.

To place all children in family type homes is key we believe to interrupting this vicious cycle and that’s how the profitable components, in deployment of affordable community broadband were intended to underwrite.

It was at the time of Davos 2008, that one local who’d read about our activism decided to speak out, when a child died of malnutrition. In homes for disabled children we then discover an attrition rate of up to 12% every year. Some simply stare into the abyss, they don’t want to be here any more.

http://www.deti.zp.ua/eng/show_article.php?a_id=5219

This was followed by using the model to source a development initiative in Russia and since 2002 we’ve been applying the same concept in Ukraine. With our investment, production of the ‘Marshall Plan’ strategy paper for childcare reform and social enterprise we were able to influence change in both Ukrainian and US government policy in the decision to create 400+ rehab centres for disable the children and double the adoption allowance. USAID took on the social enterprise component in the creation of the East Europe foundation.

Sir Richard, I noted was a guest at the Ukrainian lunch at Davos this year where he called on business to focus more on social problems. That’s what we’ve been doing for more than a decade right there in Eastern Europe and Ukraine in particular.

We could sure do with some help from others in the UK business community.

Jeff Mowatt