Who we are

Labor and Health Social Initiatives (LHSI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO), established in 2002 and based in Kiev, Ukraine.

LHSI Mission

Promote sustainable human development by enhancing access to social services for at-risk populations, address public health challenges, ensure child protection and youth empowerment, and contribute to gender equality for a better future of Ukrainians.

Priority areas of LHSI activities 2025-2027

Social policy:

• Development of social services for vulnerable categories of citizens, including children, persons with disabilities, veterans, IDPs, survivors of violence;
• development and implementation of evidence-based programmes for the prevention of socially negative phenomena in society, in particular in the field of labour;
• provision of expert assistance to authorities, communities, institutions and organisations in creating regulatory and organisational mechanisms for the implementation of social policy;
• promotion of innovations and capacity building in the field of social policy.

Public health:

• Ensuring equal access to public health services for vulnerable groups, including at the community level, mobile teams and through digital tools;
• support for early detection, treatment and follow-up of people with tuberculosis and other socially dangerous diseases, especially among most-at-risk groups;
• analysis of international experience and implementation of prevention, information and rehabilitation programmes, promotion of healthy lifestyles.

Children and youth:

• Promote respect for the rights of children and young people, including the right to safety, protection from violence, quality education, family upbringing, health care and participation in decision-making that affects them;
• adapt international programmes and implement child development programmes through play, creativity and non-formal education as a means of cognition, psychosocial support and life skills;
• facilitate partnerships and exchange of experience between non-governmental, youth and children's organisations from different countries to strengthen partnership.

Contribute to the reconstruction of Ukraine:

• Implement programmes of social support, integration, access to services, housing, employment and psychosocial support for IDPs, veterans and their families, war-affected groups from different regions of Ukraine, including those who have moved abroad
• Develop and implement programmes for reintegration, mental health, vocational training and social support for war-affected groups.
• Establish partnerships with international organisations and experts to attract, adapt and.

LHSI is a member of the Stop TB Partnership, the International Step-by-Step Association (ISSA) and the Ukrainian Child Rights Network.

Organization Code of Ethics and Policies

With the drafting and adoption of the Code of Ethics, LHSI aims to clearly explain the model of organizational responsibility that it pursues in the performance of its activities, in internal relations and in relations with the different stakeholders. This is in order to orient their own action and that of their collaborators according to a perspective of ethics and the prevention of illegal and irresponsible conduct. This document, approved by the Board of LHSI, declines the ethical principles that must guide the actions of the members, staff, service providers; it also establishes indications and commitments of behavior expected by the entire organization, by those who work there and by those who collaborate with it at a general level and in the different areas of intervention. These principles, indications and commitments of behavior are assumed to supplement the ethical constraints of the different professionalisms operating, the regulatory provisions in force and the contractual agreements established.

The full text of the Code of Ethics can be consulted by downloading the file published below:

Code of Ethics (in Ukrainian)

Taking into account that LHSI implements projects focused at child protection and development, we have adopted a separate Policy specifying and explaining further the Code of Ethics and Conduct with Children in all our initiatives

Child Protection Policy