In December 2005 we conducted a survey amongst orphans from the Zaporozhye State Orphanage #3 asking them to recall the best and the worst moments in their life as an orphan.
10 children ( 4 girls and 6 boys from 9-15 years old) have provided us with their answers:
The best moments:
- When we went to Crimeria for the seminar and lived in a tent in Berdiansk
- My 12th Birthday
- When I was re-allocated to the institutional school, but instead I went " home"
- I like it when somebody wants to be friends with me
- When I went home for a holiday
- I loved meeting my friend Yura as well as others and that I went to Italy
- I like it when I am in Church
- The best day in my life is when I was at home
- The best thing in life is when I get help from God and kind people
- When I was in Italy, when we went to the Christmas ball, when my brother and sister were with me in the Berdiansk's Orphanage
The worst moments:
- The worst day in my life is in the orphanage where other children hit me
- I do not like to be in the orphanage
- I do not like it when other children and adults call me names
- I do not like the orphanage
- I am fed up with my life because people call me names
- I do not like it when my parents are drunk
- The worst thing in life is when there is no one to help me in my circumstances
- When others pick on me because I am drunk.
