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 86
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, 22:00 995
«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, 11:45 804
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 1173
Pupils of the orphanage "Solnyshko" were evacuated from Zaporozhye
We evacuated 100 of the smallest pupils of the regional orphanage
March 15, 2022, 19:45 965
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 4798
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 2170
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 43814
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 3670
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 4483Publications are shown from 1 to 10
Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
They need help:
Our expenses in 2026
| 39 sick children | $13 921 |
| Medical equipment: | $414 |
| Humanitarian help: | $10 612 |
| To disabled children: | $11 689 |
| To orphans and poor children: | $5 013 |
| Tourism program: | $154 |
| Help to adults: | $3 826 |
| Service expenses: | $6 995 |
| Total sum of expenses: | $52 706 |
$7 522 685
donated since 2007