In Lviv region a unified electronic database on orphans, children deprived of parental care and children from crisis families was created.

The all-Ukrainian database should facilitate the adoption procedure, reports Deutsche Welle.

Almost five thousand children have already been entered in the electronic register; they are residents of Lviv and Lviv region. Half of them require care and adoption.

The database consists of pictures with full information on children, says the head of regional children’s issues service Volodymyr Lys.

According to him, it will greatly facilitate and accelerate the adoption procedure which may last up to one year.

„It is really paramount, we’ll count the children and remove double registrations,“ assures Mr. Lys.

The access to informational bank is strictly limited and controlled by Security Service of Ukraine.

Mr. Lys says that there also exists a database of Ukrainian families in line for adopting a child. There are about 50 such families in Lviv region.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda