Solnishko (Sun) orphanage, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

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 7512
Children thrown away

There is no “Windows of life” in Zaporozhye but there’s an alternative yet.

January 31, 2011, 13:00 5549
In Zaporozhye 5 children have been adopted recently, and one of them - by foreigners.

At the moment the procedure of documents execution is being finished for adoption of five children from the orphan home “Solnyshko” in Zaporozhye.

March 10, 2010, 13:50 3947
Photo report: using donation from Marino P., Erich S., USA, Highlander, Israel, and parcels from Irina M., Switzerland, and Kahpo, USA

Children of "Sun" baby's orphanage and orphanage #3 of Zaporozhye received useful and interesting gifts

November 28, 2007, 0:05 7991
Photo report: parcels from Kahpo, USA, Cristina, Spain, Amy, USA

We are thankful to our permanent sponsors for a joy which they gave to orphans

April 25, 2007, 5:10 8760
Photo reporting: Volunteers visiting Zaporozhye baby's home "Sun" on January 19, 2007

On a rainy day of January 19 Zaporozhye's volunteers visited a children's home "Sun"

January 27, 2007, 0:00 7701
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Oleh Semyriaha
Oleh Semyriaha

Congenital malformations of the nervous system, respiratory failure

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You donated in 2026

$16 207

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Our expenses in 2026
38 sick children $13 396
Medical equipment:$414
Humanitarian help:$10 612
To disabled children:$11 391
To orphans and poor children:$4 910
Tourism program:$154
Help to adults:$2 994
Service expenses:$6 994
Total sum of expenses: $50 947

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donated since 2007