Orphans

Ukrainian orphans find family feeling in Phila

As part of a program sponsored by the Souderton-based Love Cradle USA organization, nine orphans from Ukraine were paired with American families for a monthlong visit

July 30, 2009, 12:00 5001
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 3941
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 2864
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 2839
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 4462
Will Ukraine help boarding school graduates enjoy their youth?

Most of the pupils of Boarding Schools have biological parents, but their school instructors have become their true fathers and mothers. What future awaits them?

May 13, 2009, 10:00 4279
On the Small Miracle Taking Place (Almost) Unnoticed in the Children’s Home at Kalinovka

It isn’t necessary to travel around the world to find miracles. The creative activity of these children at Kalinovka, who until recently were considered untrainable — that is truly a miracle!

April 29, 2009, 8:00 5282
The outsiders glance

Belgium guests visited “Happy Child” fund, Zaporozhye in April. Here are some details and photos

April 28, 2009, 10:00 8824
2008 Annual Report for the Happy Child Charitable Foundation

Here is the annual report about the results of our teamwork during 2008

April 1, 2009, 10:00 36303
"Adoption Department is under terrific pressure” – says Liudmila Volynets

Head of the Ukraine’s State Department for Adoption informs about progress and problems of this government agency

March 30, 2009, 10:00 7602
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

They need help:
Misha Zavorotnii
Misha Zavorotnii

Organic damage to the central nervous system, complex metabolic disorder

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Dmytro Shybaiev
Dmytro Shybaiev

Type 1 diabetes mellitus

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Mariia Kivniuk
Mariia Kivniuk

Cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis

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You donated in 2026

$ 5 475

Full report

Our expenses in 2026
To 22 sick children $7 817
Medical equipment: $0
Humanitarian help: $7 425
To disabled children: $4 130
To children's village: $1 358
To orphans and poor children: $1 214
"Helpus" - help to adults: $2 106
Service expenses: $2 484
Total sum of expenses: $26 771

$7 510 670

donated since 2007