OUR TEAM

ALEXANDER KRUPIN

Co-founder
and the leader
Lighthouse project
in Ukraine

For more than ten years he has been working with children from low-income families in Ukraine and Kenya. Children's Camp director in Canada.

"When we see a child in need, we have to ask ourselves what would we do if it were our own child?"

ALEXEY YANOVSKY

Co-founder
Lighthouse project
in Ukraine

He has been working with children in crisis categories for over twenty years.

"By giving our children our attention and time we show them how valuable they are to us.

ANDREY MATVIENKO

Mentoring Project Director

More than twenty-five years in the field of children and youth. Since 2012 in the Mentoring program. Loves activities in all their formats.

"Every child is a small person ... absorbing every picture, sound, smell and touch."

ALENA MATVIENKO

Psychologist and coordinator

For over thirty years fellowship experience with children and youth. She’s happy that in addition to her own children several more children call her “mom”. Loves to get to know God and meet new people!

"The day was not wasted in vain, if there was someone I could help!"

OUR MISSION

Help orphans in rebuilding their personality and preparing for an independent life, through a trusting relationship with a significant adult mentor.

HOW WE DO IT

01. Mentors. Search and selection.

02. Mentors’ training.
Trainings on the psychology of orphanhood.

03. Accompaniment of “mentor-ward” pairs: consultations, meetings, trainings, events.

How it all started

HISTORY OF MENTORING

The successful Western model of mentoring embodied by “Big Brothers Big Sisters” of America (founded in 1904) and was taken as a prototype for the Mentoring program.
Its goal is to help children reach their potential through professionally maintained personal relationships with volunteer mentors.

In 2009 Ukrainian orphanage specialists adapted this model to our culture by creating a mentoring methodology.

From 2009 to 2018 this model was successfully tested in Kyiv and also in thirteen regions of Ukraine. This mentoring program has successfully been adopted by organizations from six other countries.

An important achievement is the adoption of the “Law on Mentoring” in 2016 signed by the President of Ukraine. Thus Mentoring is an official form of assistance to children from boarding schools.

OUR VISION

So that every orphan child would have a trusting relationship with a significant adult mentor who will believe in him or her, make him or her feel needed and accepted, important and capable helping determine his or her talents and one of these days become independent.

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