SOS Children's Villages of Uzbekistan and the National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of cooperation

The President's attention to the issues of supporting children left without parental care was reflected in the resolutions adopted on August 9.

These decrees are based on the main principles of de-institutionalization, such as supporting the upbringing of children in their own families or a family-like alternative form of care to ensure the social adaptation of children to their subsequent independent life. Considering that the SOS Children's Villages of Uzbekistan has a long-standing international and national experience in alternative care of children, leaving care and supporting families where children are at risk of losing parental care, the tasks set for the National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the President's decree No. PD-5215, “On measures to introduce the fundamentally updated system of upbringing children left without parental care” was the establishment of a partnership with the SOS Children's Villages of Uzbekistan.

SOS Children's Villages of Uzbekistan and the National Guard signed a memorandum of cooperation to implement systemic cooperation in this area. The main goal of the memorandum of cooperation is de-institutionalization of institutional care, development of the family-like and other alternative forms of placement of children left without parental care, creation of ample opportunities for their accelerated social adaptation in the community, reintegration of children from alternative care to their family and prevention of social orphanhood by developing support systems for families where children are at risk of separation from the family.