Kalinovka orphanage (Chernigovka district)

The American family adopts a child with special needs from the Kalinovka Orphanage

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

March 1, 2012, 21:00 15245
A Month of a New Life...

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

February 16, 2012, 18:40 4468
I want to make the world a little bit better....

One can choose what they do: whether to boast of his happiness and welfare, or to share it with other people and to be a little bit happier, to make the world a little bit better

February 1, 2012, 19:30 6428
Photo and Video Report: Special-Needs Children at a Zaporozhye Region Internat Find a “Happy Home”— reporter.zp.ua

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

December 13, 2011, 23:40 14081
Nick from California and Alyosha from Kalinovka – Life Without Limits

I’d like to tell you about my first working day at “The Happy Child” Foundation. That day I happened to visit the worst place I had ever seen in my life

December 2, 2011, 17:30 10937
Video report: The impressions of our guest from the USA

August 3, 2011 «The Happy Child» Charity Fund organized the visiting of three boarding schools in the Zaporozhe region for children with special needs. Maya was deeply impressed by the things she saw

October 24, 2011, 17:30 3296
Video report: One day in the life of “The Happy Child” Charity Foundation

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

September 28, 2011, 19:45 3292
A Child’s Appeal from Ukraine’s Highest Mountain

Young Cossacks from Zaporizhzhya recently climbed Mt. Hoverla to read a letter from a boy from the Kalinovka internat for severely disabled children

September 20, 2011, 0:00 7141
Reconstruction at Kalinovka: the Project Goes Forward

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

July 16, 2011, 7:00 5673
All on Safari!

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

May 27, 2011, 8:00 6164
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Oleh Semyriaha
Oleh Semyriaha

Congenital malformations of the nervous system, respiratory failure

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Oleksii Velkyi
Oleksii Velkyi

Cerebral palsy

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You donated in 2026

$58 361

Full report

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
Total sum of expenses: $56 700

$7 563 914

donated since 2007