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UK / Ukraine, 2012
BBC Documentary
88 minutes

Ten times as many children are in institutional care in Ukraine as in England. 
In this disturbing investigation, film-maker Kate Blewett finds out what a 
lifetime in the care of the state really means for Ukraine's forgotten 
children.

Shot over six months in an institute for disabled and abandoned children, the 
film takes us inside the lives of a handful of children who were abandoned by 
their parents - with a simple signature - to state care. The institute houses 
126 children, of whom all but four still have living parents. The vast majority 
are what are called 'social orphans' in Ukraine, signed over to institutional 
care in a society that still clings to the Soviet-era ideal that the state 
knows best. But what Kate finds is that children of widely varying abilities 
are warehoused together, leading inevitably to institutionalisation, repetitive 
behaviour, self-stimulation and self-harm, even amongst those with very minor 
disabilities.

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Deze documentaire onthult de schokkende feiten over kinderen die opgroeien in staatsinrichtingen in de Oekraïne. Je wordt er niet echt vrolijk van, maar soms is het wel eens goed om dit materiaal te bekijken... Post is 5 dagen oud.