The Hostomel community is looking for patronage carers. This is official employment with social guarantees, not volunteering.

The recruitment was announced by the Hostomel settlement military administration.

Patronage is a temporary comprehensive service for a child in the family of a patronage carer. The child lives there while their parents deal with difficult life circumstances.

So it is neither adoption nor guardianship: the aim is for the child to return to their own family once the crisis passes.

The carer's allowance is about 26 thousand hryvnias a month. A separate payment covers the child's upkeep.

Candidates must meet requirements on housing, health and training. Details and contacts in Hostomel are provided by the settlement military administration.

Pay and duration

A foster carer providing the service on standard terms receives three minimum wages a month. At the current minimum wage of 8,647 hryvnias that is 25,941 hryvnias a month.

A child stays with a foster family temporarily: the standard term is up to three months, extended to six in exceptional cases.

During that time specialists decide the child's future: a return to the birth family, adoption, or placement in family-based care.

Candidates are screened by the children's service together with the social services centre, on documents and an inspection of living conditions.

As a reminder, sixteen children of fallen and missing defenders went on a holiday.

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