Ukraine
Ukraine Says Local Man Hasn't Returned Kids
International adoptions out of the Ukraine could be stalled indefinitely because of a Central Florida man. Documents show Larry Vander Maten participated in a hosting program for Ukrainian children, but he missed a deadline for sending the children home
September 10, 2009, 15:00 3745
Family called to adopt special needs kids
Malone, minister of music at First Baptist Church in Moore, Okla., discovered that in Ukraine, children with special needs are moved to a mental institution once they reach the age of 5 or 6. Few of them survive the first year there.
September 1, 2009, 10:00 4154
Anastacia’s Hope
“Actually this is not a kind of a situation, when there is no hope”, told German professor to Nastya Sizonenko. Doctors wait for Nastya to be operated in November 2009. She needs about 5000 euros to have this possibility
July 31, 2009, 10:00 4479
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 4972
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 2841
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 2006
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 2797
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 10571
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 4423
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?
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
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Our expenses in 2025
| To 98 sick children | $91 765 |
| Medical equipment: | $23 022 |
| Humanitarian help: | $146 785 |
| To disabled children: | $80 388 |
| To children's village: | $3 719 |
| To orphans and poor children: | $9 726 |
| "Helpus" - help to adults: | $17 242 |
| Service expenses: | $38 347 |
| Total sum of expenses: | $426 136 |
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