OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHT FOR PROTECTION

2016

OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHT FOR PROTECTION

Active parents and public awareness campaign

• 30 meetings between parents and doctors involving more than 1,000 persons organized across the country

• organization’s volunteers participated in several thematic public events involving the audience of tens thousand people in Kyiv and Mykolaiv

Publication of information and explanatory materials on vaccinations

The organization initiated drafting and publishing:

Calendar on preventive vaccinationsThe guide “Answers to parents’ difficult questions

about vaccinations” (5 ths copies)

Coloring book for children on vaccinations “The Magic

Umbrella” (5 ths copies)

Information and explanatory materials sharing by the organization’s members and volunteers

during meetings with parents

Rotary in Ukraine is the lead partner organization and supporter.The cooperation and partnership with 300 doctors from all over Ukraine, the Ukrainian Academy of Pediatrics, public and private clinics, pharmacies networks

The organization’s experts joined the working group of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health to draft a national immunization program for the next 3-5 years

The information on the organization’s activities placed on the cover of the exchange cards for pregnant women published by the “Zrostai, maliuk!” (“Grow up, baby!”) project (35 ths copies)

Partnering with like-minded people

Expert meetings, conferences and seminars for children’s doctors, street actions

Parents’ and their children’s interests advocacy in the courts and in communica-

tion with authorities

• 7 lawsuits on refutation of false information on vaccinations prepared. 3 of these ones have already submitted to the cour

• 53 appeals to provide the population with vaccines for the infectious diseases prevention sent to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and its structural formations in all Ukrainian regions

Online activities • More than 100 ths unique visitors visited bzv.org.ua web-site • An interactive map on vaccines availability created • The organization’s page on Facebook has 2 ths followers, its posts coverage reaches 500 ths

people. The page has become a platform for interactive communication between doctors and parents, and for experience exchange between doctors

• The website and Facebook-page surveys on parents’ and doctors’ opinion regarding current issues of children health

The organization’s nearest plans• Monthly meetings and webinars for parents • Participation in conferences and seminars for children’s doctors• An educational video platform on vaccinations creation, obtaining project financing• Additional edition of information and explanatory materials on vaccinations• Partnerships and coalitions development (World Health Organization, Rotary, Ministry of

Health of Ukraine, UNICEF, Ukrainian Academy of Pediatrics, Prosvita (Enlightenment) NGO, Patsienty Ukrainy (Patients of Ukraine) NGO, the Center of Public Health, the media, public and private clinics, pharmacies networks)

• Membership and volunteer support development • Organizing and participating in promotions, flash mobs, charitable projects