About sills, shadows and children ‘accidently‘ left in maternity hospitals…

Why thousands of children are being kept in maternity hospitals and orphanages of Ukraine while hundreds of families want to adopt a baby?

July 7, 2009, 7:00 3931
Adoptive Parents Await New Baby

A Minot family is anticipating the arrival of a child from Ukraine. She is a happy, four-year-old with Down syndrome, and her family couldn`t be more excited. "We feel called to this" says Paula Burckhard, the expectant mother.

July 6, 2009, 10:00 2858
The Day weekly digest: How many are we going to be?

Thoughts about the population of Ukraine in the near future. 36 to 42 million by optimistic and 26 million by realistic estimates in 2050. How can we buck the trend right now?

July 3, 2009, 10:00 2023
Gaithersburg woman helps kids with Down syndrome find homes

When her first child was born with Down syndrome, Andrea Roberts was grief-stricken. Then she fell in love with her son Reece, now age 7. Now she works to help American families adopt children with Down syndrome born in foreign countries

July 1, 2009, 10:00 2823
Dvurechenskiy Sergey, 20 years – inborn myopia of a high level of the both eyes

Thanks to the donors, $2850 were collected for Sergey and surgery will be done soon

June 29, 2009, 10:00 3653
Wild nature and cultured human, not the other way round

The All-Ukrainian Charitable Health Marathon was organized, when specialists examined a number of orphans and children in low-income families on skin-cancer-related hazards

June 29, 2009, 7:00 2914
Save a child: Milena Salik, 6 years old – dilated cardiomyopathy

In July, 2009 in Polish cardiocentre Milena has been established an especial cardiostimulator which can delay a question on heart transplantation in time. Parents of the girl thank all who helped Milena

June 26, 2009, 10:00 9156
Save a child: Kornyushin Maxim – 4 years old, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (joint inflammation)

Maxim has a serious illness destroying his joints. The medical treatment he had undergone in Moscow hospital turned to be highly effective, but it’s too expensive for Maxim’s mother who brings him up alone. Please, support Maxim and his mother in collecti

June 25, 2009, 4:00 10626
Kolopov Sasha, 2 years 9 months - Portal hypertension, veins bleeding

Due to donations of kind people Sasha was successfully operated at Moscow hospital specialized on the portal hypertension and veins bleeding treatment. Now he temporarily doesn't require our help

May 14, 2009, 10:00 3461
Orthodox orphanage "Nadezhda" ("Hope")

24 children of age 3 to 17 live there. Most of them are from Zaporozhye and Zaporozhskaya oblast

May 13, 2009, 12:00 4447
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