What We Do

Sustainable/Building

 

Building & Construction Programme

 

Day Care Centres

In order to make a sustainable difference to the people of Belarus, CCPI developed a community-based Day Care Centre development Programme, providing long-term social support to communities of up to 17,000 people. CCPI has huge ambitions to grow our Day Care Centre (DCC) Building Projects and over the next two years will will build 3 new Day Care Centres in Belarus in Glutsk, Buda Koshelova and Gorki, using state-of-the art sustainable building and energy-saving technologies. Day Care Centres provide a wide range of services and CCPI work with local communities to restore their communities and make a lasting impact on people's lives.

Day Care Centres provide services including medical care facilities, counselling services, refuges for families in crisis, incubator units for small business development, microcredit facilities and elderly services among the many other services provided.

Orphanages and Institutions

As the disaster left the Belarusian economy on its knees, many orphanages and Day Care Centres were previously run in old buildings which were unsanitary and unable to provide the services for which they were built as the disaster had stretched their resources beyond their limits.  

With the development of the Building Programme CCPI identified a number of orphanages and institutions in Belarus in dire need of renovations and upgrading of facilities, in particular Vesnovo Children's Mental Asylum which is one of CCPI's flagship building programmes. Many Irish builders, working alongside Belarusian workers give of their free time to undertake building and refurbishment works to several large institutions. This initiative is seen as one of the most immediate and practical ways to improve the quality of life of the most needy of children-those whose lives are spent in orphanages. In the past few years, Vesnova has been transformed. Irish volunteer builders are in the final stages of completing all the new units, access areas, stairs, corridors, offices and classrooms. In Autumn work will be completed on installing a new gym and running track. 

Sustainable Agricultural Projects

CCPI is also working very closely with a well-recognised UN Programme ie CORE to develop sustainable agricultural projects in the stricken regions of Belarus. Two projects which the organisation is currently supporting include 'Polnya Chasa' which consists of growing greenhouse vegetables in a controlled and clean environment and breeding rabbit cubs with the help of new agricultural innovation techniques; and the second project, 'Nutritive Plants against Radiation', involves the cultivation of nutritive plants such as aronia, currants, barberry, sea-buckthorn etc. to eliminate long-living radioisotopes from the human body, as well as the creation of mini-nurseries in 26 settlements in the Bragin region of Belarus.

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