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Orphaned children celebrate Christmas in Kyiv

January 16, 2019, 17:00 2187 Author: By Tamara Kiptenko, Artur Korniienko, Kostyantyn Chernichkin. www.kyivpost.com For the seventh year in a row, orphaned children celebrated Christmas and New Year’s at Kyiv’s Premier Palace Hotel on Jan. 9, joined by their guardians, charity workers and some distinguished guests.

It is a one-day fairy tale for many of the 130 children from eight orphanages in Kyiv and Zhytomyr oblasts. The elegant celebration is a chance to teach children etiquette and meet their friends and larger family, says organizer Natalia Uvarova.

“Small children get a fairy tale here, and grown-up children get family and acceptance,” says Uvarova, the president of “Orphans Are Our Children” charity fund.

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