Taras McCurdie was adopted as an infant in Ukraine and wants to ‘make every moment count.’

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Four Happy Homes for orphans got solar water heaters thanks to awards in “We are city” 2018

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Fundraising suspended! Thanks to you, friends, Kostya completed a rehabilitation course in Truskavets on time!

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To help you know us better, we share 12 interesting facts about our lives.

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On the eve of our 12th anniversary, we received the best symbolic gift any charitable organization of Ukraine can imagine.

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Celebrating World Down Syndrome Awareness Day right here in Northern Michigan.

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Solar collectors for Happy Homes and swimming pool for special children at Kalynivka

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In October 2018, we want to plant hundreds of trees around our Happy Homes for orphans. Anyone may help!

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8 orphans including with disabilities will receive loving parents and a beautiful home, but we need help with this project

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The first ladies of Hungary and Ukraine have inaugurated a rehabilitation center for orphans, backed by the Catholic Church, in a Ukrainian village as part of broader efforts to improve the lives of those sometimes referred to as "Ukraine's forgotten chi

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7 volunteers from Great Britain visited all the Happy Homes and contributed to the further development of the project.

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Nancy and Steve Hathaway created Heart for Orphans after adopting children from Ukraine and seeing a system in need of help.

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An inspiring life story of a former pupil of the psycho-neurological boarding school: reflections, personal experience and conclusions.

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the decree on priority measures to protect the rights of orphans, children deprived of parental care, and persons from among them.

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We made short video about the life in the 2 "Happy homes" for disabled orphans in Kalinovka village. Now they are not orphanage, they are foster families.

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A few words about how wisely to congratulate children with the heightened need for love and attention

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A few years ago there was a local clinic in Lyubymivka village, Mykhailivskyi district, where the house is. In spring 2016, the construction of the 5th house started on its place. The main goal is to give orphans, including disabled, the family.

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At the final stage we need help with furniture, cooking staff, cutlery and dishes, computer and TV-set, bed linen

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With the support of the Consulate, the renovation of the second floor in the "Happy Home-3" is about tobe completed.

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Family and friends have packed the small courtroom to witness the hard-fought adoption of the Ukrainian orphan by Mike and Kristy Johnson of Cary.

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Fun adventures of the Club in Kharkiv

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In January, the Happy Child Fund signed an agreement in Kyiv with the Embassy of Japan to Ukraine and was selected as the best project at the NATO Charity Bazaar

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St. Nicholas Day was special for our orphans, wards of Chernihiv orphanage in the village of Kalinovka

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The under-construction house for orphans in Lyubymivka gets heating. We really need your help to continue with the works inside the house.

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The adventure and tourism project, “Yarn,” is pleased to tell you all about their summer.

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On March, 25 – 27th 2016 «Klubok» touristic club had a three-day trip in Zaporizhya region

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Best in Ukraine!

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320 children who participate in the Klubok tourist club and their parents attended the Kobzov Circus on 17 March 2016

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A few days ago 30 pupils and 10 adults from the tourist club "Tangle" returned from an exciting journey to the charming and magical Carpathian City of Lviv. Radionova Oksana shared impressions about the trip.

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There will be another family - type orphanage in the Zaporozhye region for orphans with special needs

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In summer 2016 we are planning to organize a week-long vacation at sea for 100 orphans and children from low-income families with many children.

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Lisa has been to Germany once again. New affected areas have not appeared which is great

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The family is still very much in need of your help such as food and clothing.

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If you would like to help organize small “miracles” for these special people – please donate a few dollars to HelpUs”

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On Saturday, October 17, 2015, 11 young pupils of The Zaporozhye School of Arts №3, Hortitsky district, gave a wonderful concert for pupils of The Kalinovki & Orlovsky Neuropsychiatric Boarding Schools.

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Please help buying seedlings for the children's village Happy Child

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My sunny model Miroslava is now an American

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This is Princess Margarita’s story…

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Margarita, a very special girl from a special orphanage, now lives in America

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In July 2015, our family moved from Zaporozhye to the country and organized a family-type children's home with 10 children. In this article, we will share our first impressions of our rural life.

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This story is about orphans from Kalinovka paying a visit to the zoo and the castle in Vasilyevka

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Hikes to the Carpatian mountains and camping in tents are waiting for little Ukrainian orphans this summer. Your donations can make this wonderful vacation a reality!

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Boiler, plumbing, tile, insulation etc. were purchased for the future “Happy Home” in the Children’s village last February. We still need your volunteer and financial support to open a group home for orphans with disabilities this year!

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It was so long ago - a two-year old white-haired and white-skinned little boy, sitting on his mother's lap in the hospital courtyard. "He needs a bone marrow transplant, that's 65 thousand dollars"...

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Hurrah! On New Year's Eve, we received a grant for the sum of 400,000 UAH from the Ginger Fund. Construction of the first house in the children's village continues at a growing rate! Join now!

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Stella Young, who has died at the age of 32, was a passionate, provocative and funny activist for disabled people. Here are 17 things she wanted people to know

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The reconstruction of a new accommodation of the hematology department is almost completed. The Children’s hospital needs your financial support in purchasing bathroom faucets and sinks!

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A striking illustration of how adoption can really change a child’s life within a year!

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On October 23rd-27th children together with Klubok touristic club travelled to Odessa for the first time

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Thanks to your financial support the construction of a new group home for orphans with disabilities is successfully going forward. Everyone is welcome to make a small contribution in our Happy Home project!

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In spring 2013 Ukrainian physicians declared a Ukrainian orphan to be incurable. However it soon was proven to be wrong. The boy survived. Against all odds

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Last July four grownup dwellers of the Kalinovka orphanage went to a Christian summer camp. Many thanks!

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The story of how dreams come true... About a former orphan Oleg from the village of Kalinovka who recently found a loving family

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On 26th May eleven children of Zaporozhzhye orphanage went for a bike ride along the routes of a magnificent Khortitsa Island

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A Tourist Club for Children, Klubok, has been working in Zaporozhzhye under the aegis of the Happy Child Charitable Foundation for several years already. On April 10, the founders of the Club, Anton Bondarenko and Albert Pavlov, met with mass media

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Alyosha who was adopted from Kalinovka by an American family in 2012 is now enjoying his life to the fullest with his new artificial legs – he plays hockey and swims!

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Twenty-two almost courageous children from a small village of Prishib made a trip to Sevastopol

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In November 2013 three more children from Kalinovka found their families

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The representatives of the "Child's Smile" foundation arranged master shops for the children

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Thanks to the Happy Child volunteers, Oleg enjoyed the most wonderful birthday ever – the boy together with his friends travelled to the Crimea in January

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I already have an entire collection of bags and totes of this kind at home. They flow to Moscow from all over Russia. And there, someone known as "a dependable person" takes them and brings them to us. Brings them to us across the miles and country border

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New Equipment and New Opportunities for Zaporozhzhye Regional Children’s Hospital

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The children had a boat ride, visited the Swallow's Nest, the Foros church, climbed the Kastropol yaila (plateau)

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Last Saturday twenty children and grownups with learning disabilities from the Kalinovka Orphanage went to the theater. Here are my impressions and thoughts about the day out with “different” people…

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Repair of the ventilator and procurement of the new monitors for the intensive care unit for newborns of the Regional Children’s Hospital

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In October 2013, we finally started the construction of the first family-type home in the children’s village. We have already raised money to build the foundation and the walls, but to continue the works we need your help very much!

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From 11th to 14th of October, the children from the Donetsk Group Home #1 and children from large and low-income families of Zaporozhye visited Sevastopol, Foros, and Yalta

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The new device for the Cardiology Department of the Fifth Children’s Hospital has already saved a life

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The world is not without kind people, and neither is our city of Zaporozhzhye. We have a large number not only of various charitable organizations, but volunteers, kind people and real heroes, who are ready to help others at any moment

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Perhaps, in order to realize this objective we keep coming to visit and support the children and adults in Kalinovka

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On August 1-9, 2013 a group of thirty children from large and foster families of the Zaporozhye region made a fascinating trip to the Carpathians with climbing the highest peaks of Ukraine - Hoverla and Petros

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On June 14-17, 2013 the graduates of the Zaporozhye center-boarding school had an exciting time hiking in the Crimea

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From June 14-18 this summer, I accompanied 20 orphaned teens aged 13 to 17 from Zaporozhye, Ukraine on the trip of a lifetime

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“A family that wants a child and a child that needs a family could come together” – that’s the motto for an American family, who adopted two kids from Ethiopia

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On April 24, 2013 NDay concert took place in Mikhailovka. It was organised by Tema Club and the “Happy Child” charity foundation

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Thanks to your help, a new electrocardiograph has been purchased for Zaporizhzhye City Hospital # 5

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We want to express our sincere gratitude to the United Nations Women’s Guild of Vienna for their generous grant that has enabled us to purchase ten pulse oximeters for the local children’s hospitals in the Zaporizhzhia region

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Thanks to our kind donors, some Ukrainian children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis now have finger pulse oximeters and medicine! We still need your support from abroad with purchasing some necessary medications and equipment!

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Now, for at least 2 months our young friends Lilya Golopyataya, Arina Lukashova, Victoria Butenko, Olga Horlikova and Margarita Shkurenkova will be provided with necessary medications

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We’re delighted to share our happy news with you – one more child, our unique little Alyosha from the Child’s Home in Kalinovka has been finally adopted

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In July the Center got a license of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine to provide training services for the specialty “Cattle Production”, and thus became the first non-governmental vocational school in Ukraine

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Volunteers from Great Britain have spent more than a week with kids at Kalinovka boarding school

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At the end of August our good friends and regular donors helped three girls with severe diseases

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It’s difficult to say who this story is about: a boy with only one arm or his mom. Both of them are heroes and both of them deserve immense admiration and respect

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Seven little orphans from Kalinovka visited “Neon” Zoo club and travelled to the Berdyansk estuary. These children gave us again a valuable life lesson of how one can cherish each moment of their life!

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Little orphans from the Kalinovka Orphanage went on a trip to Berdyansk! Within one day the children visited two museums, enjoyed a stroll around the sea beach and had a lot of positive emotions!

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Ten children from large and foster families of the Zaporozhye region together with the ten students of Donetsk Orphanage No.1 got acquainted with the places of interest in Sevastopol, Foros, Baydarskaya Valley, and Chernorechensky Canyon

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Little kids are usually happy about a new toy. Seriously ill children live in a different reality though. Little Arsen Shutt is extremely happy to receive a port-catheter as a present!

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When I was speaking with Andrey Aleksandrovich, I understood that resuscitators are interesting people of great depths... And that they sometimes do miracles!

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British volunteers are going to make a documentary about the orphans of the Kalinovka Orphanage and show it on the world-famous BBC channel

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For the first time in history of Kalinovka Orphanage for severely disabled children one of its little orphans was finally adopted!

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Nine children with special needs have spent the first month in their recently opened “Happy Home” in the village of Kalinovka

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Within the framework of the project "I want to be ..." November 29 the pupils of Zaporozhye boarding school # 3 meet Vladimir Nikolaevich Kirichenko - the teacher of the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Scripochka

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Now the girl can run around with her brothers without risking her health

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On the way from fabulous Bukovel to native land Zaporizhzhyan little Cossacks ran by the narrow streets of the ancient city of Lviv

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Children from Molochansk specialized orphanage school got to thumb through the pages of Zaporozhye history

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In November, 2011 the pupils of three boarding schools and children from large families visited the Museum of Local Lore and St. Petersburg Wax Museum

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Several photographs from the Zaporozhye little Cossacks’ trip to Bukovel

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Today, 1 December 2011, in the village of Kalinovka (Zaporozhye Region) the first family-type home in the region was opened for nine special-needs children

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On November 24 children from orphanage school No. 4 visited one of the world leading enterprises producing, maintaining, testing, and operating aircraft engines

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Television Broadcasting Company “Zaporozhye” discloses the secret of TV producing for the senior pupils of the orphanage #7

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In November, 2011 more than 80 foster- children and children from needy and large families had a wonderful time skating on “Katran” Ice Arena

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November 14th – A full conference hall of young dreamers got together to meet the famous traveler at the Regional Youth Center. Some curious children and their inventive questions made even the guest, Sergey Gordiyenko, applaud

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Fifteen children from the Zaporozhye boarding school #3 went on an excursion to learn more about TV professions in the scope of the project “I want to be...”

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Last Saturday Zaporozhye children visited the «Katran » skating rink

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Children from large families of Zaporozhye during exciting excursions that were organized for them by employees of the Museum of Local History and the Museum of Wax

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Children from large families and families with low income of Elizavetovka village visit Zaporozhye in order to “add some color” to their autumn school vacations and to take part in an interesting excursion

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From 23rd to 26th of October eleven students of the Molochansk orphanage school and 3 children from large families stayed in one of the most picturesque places in the Crimea – Baydarska Valley

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On the 22nd of October, 2011, twenty children from Zaporozhye orphanage for boys visited the Puppet Theatre. Many smiles and a good mood were the results of a great day!

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People tend to die before the actual death. Childhood dreams are hit by unforseen difficulties and break, adolescence plans face unexpected obstacles until the man runs out of desires, imagination and mere will to live

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16 children from Zaporozhye and the region, among whom were kids from orphanages, conquer the highest peak of Ukraine – Hoverla (2061 m) and stage a theatrical performance in the spirit of Zapozizhzhya Cossacks

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Workers have completed practically all of the exterior work on the home for nine disabled children at Kalinovka

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Morning show on a local TV channel TV-5, meeting American foundation representatives and visiting three orphanages of the Zaporozhye region — through the eyes of our volunteer

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The Happy Child” Charity Foundation holds a press conference devoted to an exciting and interesting project “Children From Zaporizha Climb Hoverla, the highest mountain in Ukraine”

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Fascinating excursions are going on! On August 11th the pupils of Kirovo Orphanage visited the Historic and Cultural Zaporizhian Sich centre and the Zaporizhian Cossack Museum where fascinating excursions were held for them

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Nine boys with special needs will be able to ring in the New Year in a comfortable new home!

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The building located at 8 Central Boulevard Street in Zaporizhia welcomes you with cartoon heroes

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The largest wealth transfer in history has more affluent families placing a greater emphasis on teaching their heirs about philanthropy

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“The Happy Child Charity Foundation” held a charity auction on the theme: “We all come from The Land of Childhood”. This auction raised almost 8, 000 hryvnyas (998 US dollars) towards the summer camp project for children from villages.

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In March 2011 forty children from orphanages, foster and large families of the Zaporizhia region spent five unforgettable days at the Bukovel ski resort, including some sightseeing of Lviv.

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On 28 April 2011 nine special-needs children from the orphanage (internat) at Kalinovka visited the Berdiansk zoo and viewed the Sea of Azov.

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People start to slow down their pace when they pass by the building on Khakaskaya Street 7 in the Osipenkovskiy neighbourhood of Zaporizhia. This beautiful front garden turned wooden town takes everyone’s breath away.

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