More than 6 thousand Tatarstan children are potential social orphans

At today’s briefing at Tatarstan Government House Commissioner for Children´s Rights Guzel Udachina said that 3,5 thousand families are currently at social risk. The briefing was dedicated to celebration of Children's Day in republic.

According to Guzel Udachina, as of January 1, 2012, 82-84 per cent of 12121 children are social orphans. Main reason of social orphanhood is deprivation of paternal rights as the result of improper execution of parents’ duties.

Guzel Udachina spoke about improvement of work with socially deprived families. She continued that there is a small number of cases when parental rights are restored. However, 90 per cent of orphans without parental care live in foster or tutorial families.

Guzel Udachina told about the project “Video passport” that has been realised since 2011 by initiative of Timur Kizyakov, presenter of the programme “Poka vse doma”. The project gives an opportunity to make a 40-minute video about an orphan child and find potential parents. Moreover, information is available on the website www.videopassport.ru

Among urgent problems Guzel Udachina pointed out violation of child’s housing and family rights.