Irina Papancheva

Senior EU Advocacy Lead at Hope and Homes for Children

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

🇩🇰 Today, Denmark takes the lead of the EU Council Presidency!

We welcome its strong focus on children in care, foster families & quality placements 💙👶🏽🏡
Here are our recommendations to support real reform:
https://t.co/KXkRDp98t9

#EU2025DK #ChildRights #FamilyCare

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

Huge thanks to our partners for co-creating this Toolkit, and to Irene Ceccanti (DG ENEST) for organising a great launch event. Fantastic discussion!

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

We presented our Toolkit for EU Institutions & Delegations Staff at @EU_Commission with partners @lumos @Eurochild_org @save_children .
Irina Papancheva shared key recommendations—huge thanks to all speakers & Irene Ceccanti for a great event!
Toolkit
https://t.co/uAKiBe8PPC

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

🇺🇦 Ukraine and 🇲🇩 Moldova deserve to open EU accession negotiations—and move forward now, said Commissioner @MartaKosEU at Forum Europe today.

We’ve worked for decades in both countries to ensure institutionalised children grow up in loving families. 🧡

@EU_Commission

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

Big thanks to @EU_Social DG EMPL for the second annual meeting with the EU Alliance for Investing in Children! 👏#ChildPoverty affects millions of children across Europe – we must strengthen the #ChildGuarantee and ensure funding is targeted at the children most in need.

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

It was great to participate in and contribute to the meeting between CRAG and the Child Rights Intergroup on behalf of Hope and Homes for Children. I look forward to working together for making sure that all children grow up in safe and caring families.

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

Huge thanks to CRAG, Emilio Puccio, and MEPs Caterina Chinnici, Manuela Ripa, Sandra Gomez Lopez, Maria Guzenina, Veronika Cifrova, Hristo Petrov & Javier Morena Sanchez for a great meeting & commitment to children’s rights! 🤝 Excited to turn words into action! #StrongerTogether

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

1/3 How can the EU ensure children’s rights are at the heart of its policies? This is the central question discussed today between the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), the largest network of child rights organisations at EU level, and the
@Europarl_EN
Child Rights Intergroup. 🧵

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

The 🇪🇺 Elections are on this weekend.

We're calling on MEPs to sign our Manifesto and commit to protecting & promoting the rights of children. All children.

Read our Manifesto here 📑➡️https://t.co/vansPC6kRz

#EUElections #VoteForChildren

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

Why do children end up in orphanages?

At least 5.4 million children live in institutions around the world. And 80% of those children aren't 'orphans' at all.

These are the interconnected factors that push and pull children into institutions 👇

https://t.co/IGisq6Qn0F

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

@EU sees reconstruction as a moment to prioritise and support Ukraine's deinstitutionalisation process. "We will ensure all EU support is aligned with the highest European standards for #deinstitutionalisation" says VP of @EU_Commission @dubravkasuica

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

Fresh from #UkraineRecoveryConference #URC2023, we're delighted to be co-hosting this event with @lumos , @FCDOGovUK and the Government of Ukraine today discussing the future of Ukraine's child care and protection system.

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

@frathje @HopeandHomes @lumos Thank you, Patricia Pennetier and Lumos for the great collaboration! We look forward to the next steps towards making sure that all children grow up in loving and safe families.

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

We're delighted with the positive discussions held during our joint training on the role of the EU in supporting childcare reform globally 🌐

Thank you to our partners at @Lumos, Patricia Pennetier, @frathje, and all the participants to in the training 💛

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

Institutions should be closed down and community-based support and services should be provided, said Etienne Cuche, Policy Officer at @EU_Commission @eu_near UN #CRPD #deinstitutionalisation guidelines. @ohchr @HopeandHomes

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

Instititutionalisation is a human rights violation, hence funding for institutions should be prohibited, said Prof Gerard Quinn @SR_Disability at #UNCRPD guidelines on #deinstitutionalisqtion launch. @HopeandHomes @ohchr

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

By donating £105, you could provide three crisis kits for families with young children, including baby food, nappies and warm clothes.

Support our #WinterCrisisAppeal today and help us protect families - through war, through winter and beyond.

https://t.co/6gkb2dkmFw

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

I have seen good directors but not good institutions, Halyna Kurylo, @DRI_advocacy, Ukraine. I don't want to spend my entire life in an institution, Varvara Alybok, resident of Mukachevo Children Internat. @HopeandHomes @EASPD_Brussels @MyEDF @EU_EESC

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

Children with disabilities from an Ukrainian institution spent days in this underground shelter, Ukraine: Paused Reform #documentary shows. All children need families at all times but especially during such challenging times. @HopeandHomes @EASPD_Brussels @MyEDF @EU_EESC

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

We cannot talk about persons with disabilities without addressing freedom and independence, said @MayaDoneva, #EASPD Secretary General at Ukraine: Paused Reforms film launch. For children this means families. @HopeandHomes @EU_EESC

[Irina Papancheva @ipapancheva]

#deinstitutionalisation and family-based solutuons are really key for Ukrainian children with disabilities, said Mikko Otani, #UNCRC Committee Chair at @MyEDF round table. @HopeandHomes works to secure family care for all children globally.

[Hope and Homes for Children @HopeandHomes]

Insightful #EDPD2022 session discussing the realities of being a young person with a disability.

The issues are far-reaching, from lack of access to higher education opportunities and difficulties entering the job market to housing and independent living facilities.