Solnishko (Sun) orphanage, Zaporozhye, Ukraine
Golden Children
Employees of the largest orphanage in Ukraine received salaries and bonuses for years, even though all children were evacuated. We are talking about hundreds of millions of hryvnias.
October 4, 2025, 22:00 769
«The children were very nervous»: how a renovated home for orphans from Zaporozhye was opened in Lviv Oblast
The building will have a children's office for classes with psychologists, a rehabilitation hall and several game rooms..
January 22, 2023, 11:45 681
Completing an Adoption Out of Wartime Ukraine
The drama surrounding the adoption of the stateless Ukrainian orphan Bridget has come to an end. The six-year-old from Zaporizhzhia has now been able to leave the country after her American adoptive parents braved the war to come get her.
May 7, 2022, 21:15 1052
Pupils of the orphanage "Solnyshko" were evacuated from Zaporozhye
We evacuated 100 of the smallest pupils of the regional orphanage
March 15, 2022, 19:45 898
From America, through a surrogate mother to a loving family
Brizzy's story and finding a loving family for a child with a huge lust for life.
August 21, 2020, 11:21 4642
Foundations from Zaporozhye and New York jointly help the Zaporozhye orphanage "Solnishko"
Thanks to cooperation between Maya's Hope and Happy Child foundations, seriously ill children from Solnishko babies' orphanage received about $100000 in aid
August 12, 2020, 16:00 2079
Zaporozhye regional specialized children's home "Solnyshko"
Orphanage "Solnyshko" is the only medical institution in the Zaporozhye region for young children deprived of parental care or in difficult life circumstances. By the way, this is the largest Children's Home in Ukraine.
December 17, 2018, 17:00 43333
Help the children's home Sun
For such small children its extremely important to live with feelings of safety, care and just to have normal home conditions as any other child deserves
January 7, 2017, 10:30 3556
Are Older Children with Severe Developmental Disabilities to be Discharged to Die?
Due to the lack of children's hospice unit the seriously ill children from the "Solnyshko" orphanage are transferred to children's homes where financing per child is half as much and qualified medical staff is not available
June 4, 2014, 16:30 4437
A Foreign Orphan: Are little orphans from Zaporizhzhia Objects of Help or Just “Fancy Puppies”?
The ReporterUA has interviewed supporters and opponents of foreign adoption in Ukraine. They all told us why Americans adopt Ukrainian children with Down Syndrome and use them as fashion accessories at the parties of foreign adoptive parents
May 14, 2012, 11:05 7421Publications are shown from 1 to 10
Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
They need help:
You donated in 2025
$ 412 886
Our expenses in 2025
| To 96 sick children | $90 190 |
| Medical equipment: | $23 022 |
| Humanitarian help: | $146 367 |
| To disabled children: | $79 070 |
| To children's village: | $3 477 |
| To orphans and poor children: | $9 361 |
| "Helpus" - help to adults: | $12 383 |
| Service expenses: | $38 295 |
| Total sum of expenses: | $417 307 |
$7 464 218
donated since 2007