The number of orphans in Moscow has decreased

In Moscow, the number of orphans placed in families reached a historic high and amounted to 85% of the total number of students in orphanages, said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday at a meeting of the city government presidium.

According to him, the city is actively working on a program to help children who find themselves in difficult life situations. “We took a set of measures related to the prevention of adoption of children by families who are in difficult life situations. The results are not bad. The number of children in orphanages decreased by 20%, and the number of children raised in families increased accordingly. This number reached a historical high and amounted to 85% of the total number of children under state care,” Sobyanin said.

As the head of the capital's social protection department, Vladimir Petrosyan, in turn, clarified, there are now 19,5 thousand orphans and children left without parental care registered in the city. 85% of them are children placed in families, and 15% today are in organizations. “When we started this work, this ratio was 77 and 23%,” Petrosyan said, adding that 2998 children live in orphanages; at the start of work there were 3745 people.