Solnishko (Sun) orphanage, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

The End of the Orphanage Era

Once I dreamed that there would be no more orphanages in Zaporizhzhia region. That time has come, but I imagined the end of the orphanage era quite differently.

February 1, 2026, 10:00 337
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 1168
«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, 11:45 917
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 1304
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 1045
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 4953
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 2295
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 44389
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 3786
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 4557
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

They need help:
Maksym Didenko
Maksym Didenko

erebral palsy, spastic diplegia. Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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You donated in 2026

$160 657

Full report

Our expenses in 2026
75 sick children $47 262
Medical equipment:$414
Humanitarian help:$23 277
To disabled children:$60 253
To orphans and poor children:$11 611
Tourism program:$10 164
Help to adults:$14 135
Service expenses:$26 900
Total sum of expenses: $195 230

$7 666 210

donated since 2007