"Knitting Friendships" is focused on helping orphans and children left without parental care in Belarus.

2. More than 28,000 orphans
and kids without parents
15% of them are in orphanages and
boarding schools
The rest have alternative family care (guardianship,
foster family, family type homes)
Statistics of 2015
Belarus
BELARUS

3. Consequences
After graduating from orphanages:
• One in two children commits a crime
• One in five children becomes homeless
• One in seven attempts suicide
• Only 1% of orphans receive higher
education
• Only 16% create their own family

4. Disadvantages of boarding schools:
• Constantly moved between orphanages
• Lack of trusting relationships with adults
• Lack of preparation for real life
• Lack of family experience
Causes

5. • to live independently
• to go shopping and manage money
• to earn money
• to cook food
• to find friends
• to communicate with others
“I don’t know how…”

6. • 10 times more likely to fall into slavery
• 30 times more inclined to alcoholism
• 45 times more likely to be unemployed
• 100 times more likely to receive a
criminal record
• 500 times more likely commit suicide
Orphanage graduates

7. Mentoring project
“Knitting Friendships”
Project Goal-
To prepare orphans and children in
boarding schools to live productively
and independently through
professional mentoring.

8. Mentoring project
“Knitting Friendships”»
Objectives of the project:
• Draw public attention to the problems of children in
orphanages and boarding schools of Belarus
• Find a mentor for each of the orphans
• Prepare graduates for independent life
in society

9. 28,704 orphans
4,372 of them have neither family, guardians
nor a close personal friend to ask for help if
needed.
They DO NOT have MENTOR!
Belarus
BELARUS

10. Mentoring
Mentoring – is a process in which one
person (mentor) offers help and
training to develop another person (in
this case an orphan).

11. Mentor
Mentor – is a person who is willing
to devote time, knowledge and
energy to a child with the goal of
becoming a significant, close person
in the life of the child.

12. Goal of mentor
Goal of mentor– is to help prepare a
child for independent live in society.

13. Objectives of mentor
• To form emotionally meaningful, stable and long-term
relationships in the life of an orphan
• To help a child develop their potential, reveal their
strengths and set life goals
• To help identify a child's personal goals and discover ways
of achieving them
• To pass knowledge and experience to a child, encourage
him to make right choices in life, support their education,
and increase their self-esteem
• To contribute to the formation of a child's life skills

14. Target group of the project
• orphans and children left without
parental care who study in orphanages
and boarding schools
–High school youth, ages 11 to 18
• graduates up to 23 years old

15. Your Role in the Project
We need you!
• Become a mentor for an orphan
• Become a sponsor for the sake of
orphans

16. Contact information
Director: Artem Golovij
+375 44 7718864, artem.golovij@gmail.com
Manager: Viktor Shkadretsov
+375 29 5066312, nitidruzhby@gmail.com

17. www.kidsmentor.org
nitidruzhby@gmail.com