News from the Children’s Home in Kalinovka

A month has passed since the publication on our website of the article on Kalinovka that found such resonance, “It’s Not Possible to Keep Silent.” It is time to sum up the results

It’s Not Possible to Keep Silent!

What is happening at the facility for disabled children at Kalinovka (Zaporozhye Oblast) is simply intolerable in a civilized society. The death of an orphan child in a remote village where there is almost complete lack of medical care—is this really poss

Photo Report: Visit of Volunteers to the Home for Disabled Children at Kalinovka, 29 December 2007 and 22 January 2008

Returning from Kalinovka, I always find it hard to find the way back to myself from what was seen and experienced. But then there emerges an overwhelming desire to go to work and change something for these children

Photo reporting: "From Heart to Heart-4" - charity trip to Molochansk and Chernigovka orphanages of Zaporozhye region

On the 22nd of December 2007 the small group of two volunteers and two actors of the circus studio were again on the way to the orphanages of Zaporozhye

Alyosha from Kalinovka orphanage...

Little Alyosha has now his loving family. We were looking forward to it so much! We wish Alyosha all the best!

Photo reporting: volunteers visit Zaporozhye regional asylum for children

Before New Year's holidays we have decided to visit a regional shelter for minors and to present them gifts which have sent guys from abroad and have collected usual people with kind heart

Without illnesses and woe

The terrible diagnosis which is put to kids from Makeevka's children's home for HIV-INFECTED children, practically does not leave them a chance

Transformation through Forgiveness and Love

"If Ukraine were to present a Volunteer of the Year award, it would be impossible to imagine a more deserving candidate than Zaporizhzhya’s twenty-three year old Ira Gavrisheva. Though tied to a wheelchair and suffering from misdiagnosed myasthenia gravi

Photo Report on the Trip by a Team of Volunteers to the Chernigovskii Internat for Children with Special Needs (at Kalinovka)

"What still sticks in my mind are the eyes of Little Alyosha, a boy lacking complete arms and legs. Pity—that is not the word with which to describe my feelings, [rather] it is a feeling of despair and an ache that you feel in every cell of your body"

Financial statement of the Charity Fund “Happy Child” and the www.deti.zp.ua website on November 2007