Articles about children with special needs

Helping the children in Ukraine

In the heady days after the protests in Kiev's Maidan square brought transformation to Ukraine's government. Disability rights and children's advocates at the meetings were clear: We must get rid of Soviet-era orphanages

May 12, 2014, 11:35 4581
A Big Rehabilitation Center for Children with Cerebral Palsy will be created in Zaporizhzhia

The Regional Children's Hospital is in the list of the objects which are planned to be renovated

March 5, 2014, 12:30 2431
Children’s charity Whizz-Kidz launches free app to help thousands more disabled children

The children’s charity Whizz-Kidz have launched an iPhone and Android app to support its mission to transform the lives of disabled children

June 17, 2013, 11:00 2815
Fighting 'generators of disability'

Rosenthal and his colleagues traveled to Ukraine to document and expose the treatment of the disabled in institutions and to train local activists

June 14, 2013, 12:00 2497
Down Syndrome Orphans Find the Reece’s Rainbow Connection

American families are being enriched through the adoption of children who are neglected in their native countries

March 1, 2013, 11:20 4013
15 Myths About "Special" Children

What are the myths that compel the parents of special children to put them in an institution, and discourage potential adoptive parents from adoption?

February 20, 2013, 11:30 2950
Group homes

Group homes are facilities in residential communities that house people with physical or mental disabilities or other challenges

December 17, 2012, 12:40 3158
Valeriy Panyushkin: Another Society

Why is there a bunch of people ready to support and defend disabled people on Facebook, and there is absolutely nobody ready to step up and carry a girl with cerebral palsy from the plane?

December 3, 2012, 16:15 2292
Intellectually Challenged Children: What Our Society is Silent About

The cliche “mentally retarded” needlessly condemns many good children to a life-long isolated existence. Many of these children would love to communicate

October 3, 2012, 11:50 4894
Health Sciences students go global to help Ukraine orphanage

Three Curtin students recently traveled to Ukraine as part of our Go Global program, which provides international fieldwork for Health Sciences students and helps develop sustainable health services for communities

August 7, 2012, 10:00 3094
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Myron Brekher
Myron Brekher

Second-degree body burns, burn disease

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Oleksii Velkyi
Oleksii Velkyi

Cerebral palsy

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Our expenses in 2026
40 sick children $14 405
Medical equipment:$414
Humanitarian help:$10 612
To disabled children:$13 361
To orphans and poor children:$5 368
Tourism program:$154
Help to adults:$3 843
Service expenses:$8 462
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