Sikh Human Rights Group

Ever wondered what happens at a UN Commission meeting?

Next week, we’re attending CSocD64—the Commission for Social Development—in New York!

This isn’t just another conference. It’s where governments, NGOs, and communities come together to tackle poverty, inequality, and exclusion.

We’re proving that Sikh principles of service and community care aren’t just values—they’re blueprints for social justice.

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Background Re: Djerela

Djerela is a charitable non-profit organisation (NGO) founded by parents of families with individuals with intellectual disabilities in 1994. Today, Djerela directly assists more than 150 people with intellectual disabilities and their families within Kyiv and the Kyiv region (a day centre in Kyiv and a rehabilitation centre in the village of Bohuslav, 120 km from Kyiv and the persistent air raids).

Djerela receives limited and insufficient support from the Ukrainian government and municipal organisations (remember, Ukraine is not a welfare state), and therefore Djerela is heavily reliant upon foreign aid and domestic volunteers.

Djerela was founded in 1993 as a project of the Ukrainian Psychiatry Association, and was officially registered in 1996 with the support of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry. Djerela unites approximately 150 families from the city of Kyiv who take care of their family member or members with intellectual disabilities.

Djerela’s overarching objective is to unite the efforts of parents and professionals for the development and fulfilment of separate actions, projects and programs that are specifically targeted at the protection of human rights, rehabilitation and social adaptation of people with intellectual disabilities and their families; and the formation of positive public opinion on the equal rights of people with disabilities.

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