Solnishko (Sun) orphanage, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

«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, 11:45 565
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, 21:15 957
Pupils of the orphanage "Solnyshko" were evacuated from Zaporozhye

We evacuated 100 of the smallest pupils of the regional orphanage

March 15, 2022, 19:45 840
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 4351
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 2005
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 42604
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 3478
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 4393
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 7323
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

They need help:
Mykyta Mozhovyi
Mykyta Mozhovyi

Hydrocephalus with severe cortical atrophy. Consequences of hypoxic-ischemic central nervous system damage

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Kseniia Lysenko
Kseniia Lysenko

Cystic fibrosis

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Maksym Didenko
Maksym Didenko

Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy

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You donated in 2025

$ 114 317

Our expenses in 2025
To 46 sick children $14 747
Medical equipment: $20 722
Humanitarian help: $2 188
To disabled children: $11 367
To children's village: $1 246
To orphans and poor children: $2 291
"Helpus" - help to adults: $3 263
Service expenses: $8 148
Total sum of expenses: $64 026

$7 165 532

donated since 2007