Senior EU Advocacy Lead at Hope and Homes for Children
Brussels, Belgium
Joined November 2010
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Irina Papancheva retweeted
🇩🇰 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:
hopeandhomes.org/publication…
#EU2025DK #ChildRights #FamilyCare
Huge thanks to our partners for co-creating this Toolkit, and to Irene Ceccanti (DG ENEST) for organising a great launch event. Fantastic discussion!
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
hopeandhomes.org/publication…
Irina Papancheva retweeted
🇺🇦 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
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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.
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.
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
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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. 🧵
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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 📑➡️childrightsmanifesto.eu/
#EUElections #VoteForChildren
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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 👇
hopeandhomes.org/why-it-matt…
Irina Papancheva retweeted
@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
ALT Vice President of EU Commission Dubravka Suica speaking to a crowd at a podium in the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in London
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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.
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 – at Brussels, Belgium
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 – at Brussels, Belgium
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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.
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ALT £105 could provide three crisis kits for families with young children, including baby food, nappies and warm clothes.
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 – at Brussels, Belgium
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 – at Brussels, Belgium
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 – at Brussels, Belgium
#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. – at Sint-Joost-ten-Node, België
Irina Papancheva retweeted
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.
Prof. Gerard Quinn @SR_Disability called on the #EU for strenghtened intersectionality, internal coordination and cohesion among its policies in implementing #CRPD, including by successful #deinstitutionalisation. #EDPD2022 @HopeandHomes – at Brussels, Belgium
