Zaporozhye orphanage (children s home) for boys with mental retardness

The January and February Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

In the recent two months, we carried on providing financial support to orphanages and made the first step to creating family-type orphanages based on our Happy Homes

March 13, 2015, 17:00 3069
The December Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

December will be best remembered for presents to everybody and for the sale of handicraft articles made in Kalinovka

January 9, 2015, 15:00 4098
The November Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

Attending a beauty contest and purchasing medical equipment as well as handicrafts items were the main events of November

December 16, 2014, 21:30 3119
The October Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

Meeting on palliative care, session of the community council in Kalinovka and training for staff from three orphanages – those were the main events of October

November 19, 2014, 15:00 3494
Knowledge is light!

And ignorance is a common reason for problems in working with “special” people. Here is something about a workshop we held for staff from three of our regional orphanages.

November 17, 2014, 14:30 4125
The September Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

Medical equipment procured for orphanages, costs to employ additional staff covered as well as petrol for the healthcare-related needs and a visit to the circus

October 23, 2014, 11:50 3858
The August Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children and Adults with Special Needs

Last month two more children from Kalinovka were adopted by families from the USA. The main event of the month for us as well as for many of those under our care was the visit of two volunteers from New Zealand

September 12, 2014, 21:00 4364
The July Report on the Works Done in Orphanages for Children with Special Needs

We bought special nutrition for the orphanage in Velikiy Lug and finally found a physician for the orphanage in Kalinovka!

August 16, 2014, 16:30 3167
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 4300
Children with Special Needs Enjoy a Nice Walk in the Dubovaya Roschsha Park

Pupils from the Zaporozhye orphanage for boys with disabilities for the first time visited the Central Park of Culture and Leisure Dubovaya Roschsha ("Oak Grove")

June 10, 2013, 18:00 3045
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, since 2004

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You donated in 2024

$ 48 477

Our expenses in 2024
To 48 sick children $19 431
Medical equipment: $1 355
Humanitarian help: $19 094
To disabled children: $32 971
To children's village: $991
To orphans and poor children: $2 216
"Helpus" - help to adults: $10 868
Service expenses: $9 431
Total sum of expenses: $98 112

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