Family type home in Kalinovka news, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

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 6542
Give Little Orphans a Home of Their Own

Nine boys with special needs have already been living in their new “Happy Home” in Kalinovka village. Let’s try our best to create one more Happy Home for seven more orphans!

April 12, 2012, 9:00 10182
The Winds Of Change At Orphanage 50.

Bobby's institution, orphanage 50 on Reece's Rainbow... it's remote, the sort of remote that you can't get your head around until you visit!

April 9, 2012, 10:00 3937
Orphans who don’t get adopted: Can they also have a Fairy Tale ending?

What happens to the majority of the children who aren’t adopted? The remaining children over 7 years of age (over 85%) have no option other than to spend their childhood in institutional care, and subsequently “graduate” to a forced adult autonomy

March 15, 2012, 18:40 4521
A British Charity Wants to Tell the World about the Special Children in the Kalinovka Orphanage

British volunteers are going to make a documentary about the orphans of the Kalinovka Orphanage and show it on the world-famous BBC channel

March 7, 2012, 14:00 3296
A Month of a New Life...

Nine children with special needs have spent the first month in their recently opened “Happy Home” in the village of Kalinovka

February 16, 2012, 18:40 4410
Photo and Video Report: Special-Needs Children at a Zaporozhye Region Internat Find a “Happy Home”— reporter.zp.ua

Today, 1 December 2011, in the village of Kalinovka (Zaporozhye Region) the first family-type home in the region was opened for nine special-needs children

December 13, 2011, 23:40 13794
To say “Thank You” is better late than never...

Children from Zaporizhzhya say thank you to people who helped them in 2011. This video is devoted to Thanksgiving Day

November 28, 2011, 23:30 3862
Reconstructing a Family-Type Home for Special-Needs Orphans at Kalinovka

Workers have completed practically all of the exterior work on the home for nine disabled children at Kalinovka

October 24, 2011, 19:15 3408
A Child’s Appeal from Ukraine’s Highest Mountain

Young Cossacks from Zaporizhzhya recently climbed Mt. Hoverla to read a letter from a boy from the Kalinovka internat for severely disabled children

September 20, 2011, 0:00 6985
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Igor Ostrohliad
Igor Ostrohliad

Dandy–Walker syndrome, spastic tetraparesis, epilepsy

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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

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