Sick children of Ukraine

Rob and Wendy Saunders of Yorktown have four children, two of whom have Down syndrome

Saunders want others to know about Down syndrome and that it's not the end of the world if your child is born with the disorder.

June 11, 2008, 0:00 3277
Save a child: Miruta Sahsa, 10 years old - brain tumor

Thanks to donations of not indifferent people the necessary sum was gathered. It has allowed to pay the surgery for removal of a tumour of a brain at Institute of neurosurgery in Moscow. Now Sasha feels well

May 23, 2008, 4:00 11793
Save a child: Sizonenko Nastya, 12 years old, portal hypertension

The surgery done in Regensburg on January, 12th 2010 gives Nastya a chance to recover. Thanks to the response of not indifferent people it was possible to collect 8800 euro for a month and to get support of one of German funds

May 23, 2008, 0:00 12954
Just the ticket

On the 11th of April, 2011 Margaret goes to St. Petersburg to have a long- awaited PET procedure.The test will be paid by the Russian Fund. We have been requested to help to raise 3,000 hryvnias to buy a train ticket to St.Petersburg for her.

May 19, 2008, 20:00 4620
Photo report about use of donations: Zaporozhia regional children's hospital

Due to sponsors of the "Happy child" fund metall-plastic windows were installed in the reanimation department and a new equipment was bought for clinical laboratory

May 14, 2008, 0:00 12058
Latest news from Kalinovka orphanage

Last Thursday we traveled to Kalinovka with Dr. Mariana. She checked all of the children with medical concerns, gave recommendations to Olga Nikolaevna, the local medic, and wrote out a list of the most necessary medicines

May 6, 2008, 0:05 7619
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

January 8, 2008, 0:05 9008
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

January 4, 2008, 0:05 13188
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"

December 27, 2007, 0:05 11511
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

They need help:
Mylana Shcherbyna
Mylana Shcherbyna

Epidermolysis bullosa, dystrophic form; chronic anemia

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You donated in 2025

$ 414 179

Our expenses in 2025
To 97 sick children $91 118
Medical equipment: $23 022
Humanitarian help: $146 564
To disabled children: $80 132
To children's village: $3 719
To orphans and poor children: $9 361
"Helpus" - help to adults: $17 242
Service expenses: $38 349
Total sum of expenses: $424 648

$7 465 510

donated since 2007