Irina Papancheva

🇩🇰 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

🇺🇦 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

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.

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. 🧵

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

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…

@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

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.

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 💛

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. buff.ly/3WVBTnF

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.