Kalinovka orphanage (Chernigovka district)
An Ordinary Miracle or a New Loving Family for a Special Child
We’re delighted to share our happy news with you – one more child, our unique little Alyosha from the Child’s Home in Kalinovka has been finally adopted
October 25, 2012, 12:40 8593
Learn, Learn and Learn!
Nine instructors from Chernigov Child’s Home in the village of Kalinovka visited a rehabilitation center "Prometei" in Zaporozhye and attended a training session on professional burnout
October 24, 2012, 16:00 3136
Englishmen in Kalinovka
Volunteers from Great Britain have spent more than a week with kids at Kalinovka boarding school
October 15, 2012, 18:45 4192
Give Kids a Chance
“Happy Home” for kids with special needs has been working in Kalinovka for two years. Now the volunteers of “Happy Child” would like to build another “Happy Home”. The renovation project has been approved and the construction begins in August
August 2, 2012, 10:00 9490
Ukraine’s Forgotten Children: View from an Orphanage
On Monday, BBC 4 showed “Ukraine’s Forgotten Children”, a movie which reveals the problems of abandoned children filmed by Kate Blewett and her crew
August 1, 2012, 12:40 3939
“Ukraine’s Forgotten Children” as I have seen and as I know them…
One month ago BBC 4 (UK) released a stunning documentary by Kate Blewitt, “Ukraine’s Forgotten Children.” The film offers the most complete and accurate picture so far of the warehouse system for disabled children and adults
July 23, 2012, 11:40 7199
Margarita Fights to Live
Margarita is still in and out of the hospital because of her condition, but she fights to live… even though the doctors dismissed her as a “disaster”
July 3, 2012, 12:40 4737
TV review: Ukraine's Forgotten Children
This harrowing film about the plight of Ukraine's 'social orphans' is almost unbearable
June 21, 2012, 11:40 3626
Help Us Make Our Great Dream Come True!
The building plan of the “Happy Home-2” in Kalinovka is almost completed. We again need your kind support to make this fairy tale dream of little orphans come true!
June 11, 2012, 12:00 2510
The Happy Child Foundation: A Fairytale Garden in Kalinovka
A volunteer weekend, which has been long ago promised, was finally held on Saturday, May 5 in the orphanage located in the village of Kalinovka, even despite the hot weather and rather late time for planting
May 31, 2012, 12:55 6542Publications are shown from 81 to 90
Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
They need help:
Mykyta Mozhovyi
Hydrocephalus with severe cortical atrophy. Consequences of hypoxic-ischemic central nervous system damage
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You donated in 2025
$ 375 555
Our expenses in 2025
| To 93 sick children | $79 798 |
| Medical equipment: | $23 022 |
| Humanitarian help: | $132 436 |
| To disabled children: | $49 695 |
| To children's village: | $3 340 |
| To orphans and poor children: | $8 837 |
| "Helpus" - help to adults: | $9 901 |
| Service expenses: | $32 890 |
| Total sum of expenses: | $354 918 |
$7 426 887
donated since 2007