history
Lugansk regional NGO "Postup" was registed in November 2000 though initiative group, which later founded NGO "Postup", has been working since 1998 fulfiling local initiatives directed on rendering help to children at risk.
In September 2001 NGO "Postup" opened in Lugansk daily rehabilitation center for children at risk (neglected children and children from not welldoing families). For 4 years of work of the Center more then 200 children at risk had got social and legal help there.
Since summer 2003 till nowdays NGO "Postup" takes part in the project "Summer home" of partner organization "M.ART.IN-club". During the project at summer camping clients of "M.ART.IN-club", "Postup" (since 2009 also clients of human rights consultation centers) and pupils of state boarding schools get social and psyсhological rehabilitation.
In 2004 - 2005 "Postup" was a regional partner of research projects "May everyone find the way home" (all-ukrainian research of homeless people's life conditions charitable foundation "The way home", Odessa, Ukraine), "Worm home" (research of homeless children's life conditions in Donetsk and Lugansk regions, NGO "M.ART.IN-club", Makeevka, Donetsk region, Ukraine), participated in realization of the allukrainian monitoring of research of human rights observance on the availability of official information "Rights for true" (Kharkiv human rights group, NGO "Roots of grass", Kyiv, Ukraine).
In 2007 year the organization was re-registered under the name "Human rights center "Postup".
In 2006, 2007 and 2009 years the organization was a regional representative of festival "Days of documentary films on human rights"in Lugansk and Lugansk region. Total audience of the festival was over one and half thousand visitors.
In 2008-2009 years Human Righta Center "Postup" together with other 12 public organizations participated in an allukrainian project of preparation of the alternative report to Committee of UNO on human rights of children (an administrator of the project was NGO "Ukrainian woman consortium").
Since 2008 year the organization has been actively participating in realization of the plan of actions of the Allukrainian educational program "Understanding human rights" (Ukrainian Helsinki Union on human rights, NGO "М'АRТ") rendering expert help to the program and administering a part of the program actions. Within the framework of the program "Understanding human rights" in 2010 year HRC "Postup" is coordinating work of creation communication platform for the activists of human rights movement - site of social network "Human of rights activists in action".
Since 2009 year HRC "Postup" has been participating in a project the "Children Rights protection network of Donbass", coordinating work of three rights protection consultation centers for children at risk in Luhansk and Lugansk region (the administrator of the project is NGO "M.ART.IN-club", Makeevka, Donetsk region, Ukraine).
In 2009 year the organization was a national co-ordinator of fiveextraneous transfrontal educational project the "Summer international youth academy of human rights and democratic initiatives", within the framework of which 25 young activists from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany passed the specialized studies on human rights in Polish city Wieluń (the administrator of the project is Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland).
In 2010 year HRC "Postup" is coordinating a trilateral project "Actions for protection of children at risk : experience of Poland, Germany and Ukraine" within the framework of which the experts of public organizations and militia (politia) departments of Ukraine, Poland and Germany will worked out recommendations for Ukrainian government for improving the situation with observance of rights for children at risk in Ukraine.
Get more detailed information about the executed and current projects of the organization here: "projects".
Photoreports about the projects executed by the organization you can find here: "gallery"
