Ukraine
Our work started with helping orphans in Ukraine.
No matter how many children you meet or how large a charity grows it is important to remember each orphan or abandoned child has his or her own sad story.
Our work started with helping orphans in Ukraine.
No matter how many children you meet or how large a charity grows it is important to remember each orphan or abandoned child has his or her own sad story.

This is Vera who I met in the Kirovograd Rescue Shelter.
Vera is eleven years old and was living in the Rescue shelter until the authorities decide what to do with her. I asked her why she was in the Rescue Shelter and she told me that her parents used to live in Kirovograd. Then one day her father went to Donetsk to look for work and never came back. Her mother went to Donetsk and found her father and left her with him. Although Vera's mother had left her with her father he didn't want her and with tears in her eyes she told me how her father had left her with complete strangers and never came back. These strangers then took her to the Rescue Shelter in Donetsk and left her there. Because she didn't come from that region she was sent to the Kirovograd Rescue Shelter.
It is heartbreaking to listen to these sad stories but how much more heart breaking to actually experience being abandoned by your parents.
It is to help children like Vera that the charity exists.