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| Welcome |
Ukrainian Orphans welcome you with traditional Ukrainian bread and salt!
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Please click on the photo.
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| Melanya Besedina, previously known as Ela Besedina |
Ela Besedina, Ельвіра Бєсєдіна,
her journey to become Melanya Besedina, Меланья Бєсєдіна: from
an orphan to a whole, wanted and loved young lady.
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Melanya
Besedina, formerly known as Ela Besedina. Меланья
Бєсєдіна, раніше відомий
як Ельвіра Бєсєдіна..Меланья Беседина,
которую раньше знали
как Эльвира Беседина.
.Please click photo to read her story.
This
is not requested or authorized. For disabled Ukrainian Children authorization is not needed.
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| Fedia, Tsurupinsk artist |
Fedia R (Born September 25, 1988)
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“Fedia
has had a very difficult life. His parents abandoned him because of his physical challenges - Fedia can not use his legs and
hands. The only home he ever knew was Tsurupinsk Special Needs Orphanage. For two years Fedia lived in a hospital fighting
leukemia. The deadly disease is currently in remission.
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“After leaving Tsurupinsk in August 2008 Fedia was supposed
to go to an ‘elderly’ home. This is a place for people who can not take care of themselves because of their age
or physical state. However, Fedia managed to convince doctors to let him go to school. As an exception, Fedia was accepted
into Lugansk trade school for students with special needs.”
“Fedia loves painting. He
paints with his mouth. An Orphan Smiles is trying
to help Fedia with his painting.
Fedia has two sponsors, Jill and Cheryl, who share in assisting Fedia.”
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| Vasya Tsurupinsk Artist |
Vasia
L (Born December 22, 1988)
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. “Vasia spent 13 years in Tsurupinsk
Special Needs Orphanage. Vasia is a reserved and serious young man. Vasia attended a trade school in Lugansk to become an
interior design decorator..
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“Vasia has had the continued support of his sponsor
Esme since he started Vocational training in 2008. He was born with major physical disabilities. His hands are completely
atrophied from shoulders to his fingers. He can not lift his hands or hold anything. He uses a wrist band to hold kitchen
utensils. His legs are also atrophied but he can walk relatively well.”
“Supporters
of An Orphan Smiles are trying to promote Vasia's art. Vasia needs employment so he will not be sent to an institution for
his disabilities. Jobs are scarce in Ukraine
in general and for an orphan with major disabilities the outlook is not good.”
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| An Orphan Smiles Board of Directors |
Please go to this page and contact as
many as you can. Ask how
to support these artists and own their work.
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Click on the Directors’ Photo.
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| Ukraine Orphan Outreach |
River Run for Orphans needs your help!
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Ukraine Orphan Outreach (UOO) is pleased to be partnering with like organizations for a great
event to raise awareness of the needs of orphans in our community and around the world. On Saturday, May 7th, UOO will be
participating in River Run for Orphans at The Ranch in Loveland, Colorado.
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Please click on the photo.
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| Frontier Horizon Banner |
Frontier Horizon is
getting ready for the summer hosting program.
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This is something you just might want to do.
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Please click on the banner and take a look.
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| Graduation Certificate |
From The Day Weekly Digest.
By Oksana Mykoliuk The Day.
Photos by Ruslan Kaniuka, The Day.
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“There is no hiding the fact that for the 33 graduates of this boarding school
childhood ended a long time ago. For some, it ended when they were thrown out by their parents and had to live in basements,
or when their parents were jailed.
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Most of the children enrolled in Boarding School No. 3 still have biological parents, but their school instructors
have become their true fathers and mothers.”
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So, what
do these graduates do? They are not prepared for life “outside”.
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Please click on the photo for the complete thought provoking article.
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| An Orphan Smiles |
An Orphan Smiles – a dream.
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You can do this! Please please click on the composite and see how desperately these kids need
help.
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Look in these tabs for smiles – few and far between. You can help
change that.
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KIDS Orphanage 12, KIDS Mykolaivka,
GAP Tsurupinks, GAP Orphanage 12, GAP Mykolaivka
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This is real. It does require a village. You can help create a village of
loving care for one of these kids. Make it a life time commitment.
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Please click on the composite.
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| Orphans Promise Logo |
Сироти
Обіцянка функціонує
п'ять навчальних центрів
для дітей-сиріт, які є
старіння зі своїх дитячих
будинках. Ці діти не мають
підтримки. Ці центри
знаходяться в Києві,
Донецьку, Бердянськ,
Тернопільської та Петровськ
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A Ministry of The Christian
Broadcasting Network.
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"To
date Orphans Promise has five training centers, up and fully running to help train, mentor, and disciple young people who
are about to “age out” of the government system or are already out. These are kids with no support system. Our
centers are in Kiev, Donetsk, Beryansk, Ternopil and Petrivsti."
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Click on the logo to find out how to be involved.
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| Nastya Sizonenko |
"Насправді
це не є якоюсь ситуації,
коли немає ніякої надії",
сказав німецький професор
Насті Sizonenko на прощання. Так,
слово "сподіваюся" був
сенс всієї Настя поїздки
до Німеччини.".
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“Actually this is not a kind of a situation,
when there is no hope”, told German professor to Nastya Sizonenko at parting. Yes, the word ‘hope’ was the
sense of the whole Nastya’s trip to Germany.”.
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Source: deti.zp.ua.
Author: Iryna Havrysheva, translated by Marina Alekseenko.
2009-07-31.
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“Currently Nastya, the jolly girl is hardly allowed to laugh
– it can cause veins rupture and hemorrhage. Laugh, just laugh can kill the child!!! After all the rescue is on the
way, the doctors bring hope!!! And one obstacle – money… Please help Nastya use her chance!!!
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“She has believed that she would have a future and it is worth to fight for! Owing to medicines
Nastya has put on weight, feels good both physically and morally. She longs for walks, friends, normal life. She regularly
takes medicines, prescribed in Germany and dreams about going to Germany again, undergoing treatment and using her chance! Nastya dreams that after 10 years of suffering,
constant fear of new hemorrhage, she can finally become a normal child. Please help her with it!!!”
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Please click on Nastya’s photo to read about this remarkable girl. Does she deserve
help? Of course.
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| Verene and Geroge Posavad |
Enhancing Ukrainian lives through dentistry.
Shoreview Press dot Com.
by Katherine
Read. Contributing Writer.
Published: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 1:49
PM CDT.
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“SHOREVIEW — They make do with rudimentary equipment: a chair,
a light, an air compressor, some sterile tools, bottled water because running water is scarce.
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“Sometimes they can do little more than pull teeth already too decayed
to save. But despite limited resources, retired dentist George Posavad and his wife, Verene, can look back over the past 16
years and see that they've made real improvements in the smiles of Ukrainian children and in their lives.”.
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Can we repair teeth? Most of us can’t and shouldn’t try but we
can help those who can and do..
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Please click on the photo to read what can be accomplished.
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| Flag of the USA |
"Student Organization Grows Project to Help Orphans"
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"Between the ages of 15 and 18, many orphans in Ukraine fall victim to drugs, prostitution and even
suicide as they are forced to the leave the orphanage and transition into adulthood.
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"But a group of University of Maryland undergraduates in the QUEST program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business is out to make a difference in
those young lives.
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"By
the end of the semester they had built an organization, come up with a unique way to use photography to connect donors with
orphans, built a Web site, and started collecting money."
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Please click on the flag to read more!
Link to the Quest program
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| Canadian Flag |
More Good News out of Edmonton, Canada
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Sonia Sunger, ctvedmonton.ca
Updated: Sun Mar. 15 2009 10:20:38
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Congratulations
to Ukraine’s friends in Edmonton – they are always doing something to help, especially the youth.
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on the Canadian Flag!
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| Christmas at Hope Orphanage |
Christmas Holiday at the Orthodox orphanage «Nadezhda»
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By
Inna Grigorjeva, translated by Inna Nigay.
deti.zp.ua 2009-03-11
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"The
orphanage 'Nadezhda' was opened by efforts and prayers of Zaporozhskiy and Melitopolsky Metropolitan Vasily. The main objective
of the school is social and pedagogical rehabilitation of the children without parental care. But even the best social pedagogical
rehabilitation cannot substitute the necessary parental care, cannot warm up their frozen hearts and sad eyes, and cannot
fulfill their souls with light and joy.
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"Only life with belief can give all this to the child."
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I have come to believe this to be true. Governments can not
do it, at any place and at any time. Governments evolve to take care of themselves. They can not take care of our children.
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Please click on the photo for this wonderful journal and album.
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| American Ukrainian Friendship Flags |
Patricia "Sister Schubert" Barnes Awarded
Silver Medal by City of Gorlovka, Ukraine
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Her work speaks for her.
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Please click
on the flags.
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