WOMEN’S CHARITY IN EDUCATION OF UKRAINE AS THE CALL OF THE TIMES

Abstract

The article defines the essence of women’s charity of the 21st century as a voluntary, socio-economic, gender-oriented, professionally adjusted force. The author established the following constitutional factors to organize the women’s charitable activities: 1) legal; 2) spiritual and moral; 3) factors of practical capability / ability of charity participants. The importance of the legal factor above others was noted. After all, it is the government that by means of its legal, social, educational, financial and economic, and other institutions directly or indirectly influence the development of the spiritual and moral factors (inner personality) and the factor of person’s practical ability to be the subject of charity.The purpose of women’s charitable activities is to develop the national education in the context of Ukraine’s integration into European and world space; modernization of domestic women’s experience in charity through advanced technologies and standards of world charity initiatives, their procedural and organizational approaches, problem diagnosis and acquisition of universal charity background. The paper also describes the principles (voluntariness, disinterestedness, humanity, cordocentrism, love to people, mercy, tolerance, etc.), the types (financial, property, organizational and territorial, personality-activity); forms of women’s charity (cash aid in the form of grants, subsidies, voluntary donations, single or systematic material assistance, free transfer of property and / or property rights to permanent use or ownership, establishment of charitable organizations, funds, unions, societies; arranging and conducting charity events, providing direct help with personal work, etc.); and the functions (axiological, educational, socio-economic, marketing-investment, social, socially regulative, public and political).