Queen Silvia and Kateryna Yushchenko Visit Social Service Public Center for Kyivans Concerned with HIV/AIDS
01 October 2008 15:59
October 1, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden visited the Social Service Public Center for Kyivans concerned with HIV/AIDS. Among other participants of the event were Ukraine’s Minister for Family, Youth, and Sports Yuri Pavlenko, wife of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, and SweCare Company representative Lars Gatenbeck.
The distinguished guests toured the Center and talked to parents and children receiving aid at this institution. They also held a brief meeting with the staff members, who gave them a presentation the Center’s work.
The Social Service Public Center for Kyivans concerned with HIV/AIDS is subordinate to the Social Technologies Dept. at the Kyiv City Center of Social Services for Families, Children, and Youth and is a joint project with a partner organization, the All-Ukrainian Network of People with HIV-AIDS all-Ukrainian charitable organization. The Center’s key mission is improving the quality of life for HIV-positive people through forming a therapeutic community of people with HIV/AIDS, encouraging them for active social actions, securing their rights and opportunities, rendering comprehensive support and help to children, young people, and families dealing with the HIV/AIDS problem.
With the participation of the World Childhood Foundation operating under the aegis of Queen Silvia, the MAMA+ model was introduced at the Social Service Public Center for Kyivans concerned with HIV/AIDS, aimed at establish comprehensive systems of family support through social, medical and psychological assistance to families.
Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden is staying in Ukraine with her husband, King Karl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for a state visit. Earlier she, together with Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko, took place in the ceremony of donation of a system for minimally invasive brain surgery from the Elekta Company to the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation.
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