Orphans
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 2713
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 2666
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 4275
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 4158
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 5116
The outsiders glance
Belgium guests visited “Happy Child” fund, Zaporozhye in April. Here are some details and photos
April 28, 2009, 10:00 8397
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 35043
"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 7384
Christmas Holiday at the Orthodox orphanage «Nadezhda»
Children without parental guardianship who have found their new family at the Orthodox orphanage "Nadezhda" ("Hope") are being educated as Orthodox Christians. On the 7th of January they invited their friends to celebrate the Christmas together.
March 11, 2009, 9:00 6152
Christian leaders set to gather in Ukraine for Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church
Around 150 delegates from Russia, Ukraine the UK and US will be gathering in Donetsk, Ukraine March 17-19 for the Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church
March 10, 2009, 10:00 3733Publications are shown from 71 to 80
Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, since 2004
They need help:
You donated in 2024
$ 54 807
Our expenses in 2024
| To 50 sick children | $21 191 |
| Medical equipment: | $1 355 |
| Humanitarian help: | $20 232 |
| To disabled children: | $34 111 |
| To children's village: | $1 034 |
| To orphans and poor children: | $2 802 |
| "Helpus" - help to adults: | $11 579 |
| Service expenses: | $10 152 |
| Total sum of expenses: | $104 462 |
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