Our Ukraine team have remained in the country during this war, providing support to internally displaced persons in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk. Here are the stories of some of the children and families we have met.
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Uwase was abandoned on the streets of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, when she was only 10 months old. She was found by the police, and when they couldn’t trace her parents, they took her to an orphanage.
On the brink of homelessness, Paul’s family were forced to consider sending him and his siblings to an orphanage just to keep him fed and warm.
Kaloyan and Maria spent the first five months of their lives in an orphanage. Poor health meant their parents could not care for them without extra help.
Vasilica was only four months old and his sister, Ecaterina, was just one when they were sent to live in the orphanage. For two years, their mother battled to bring them home home again.
Ivan was taken from his dad, Stoyan, when he was just three years old. Because he has cerebral palsy and his dad is a single parent, the authorities had decided Ivan would be better off in an orphanage. That’s when our social worker, Elitsa, stepped in.
When Mihai lived in the orphanage, he had a roof over his head and food on his plate but he was always hungry for he thing he needed most: love.
The Mihăescus are a family with 5 children, ages 1 to 16. When we met them, in March 2021, they were at risk of losing their children
Uwera was abandoned in a bush as a baby. After several years in an orphanage, she was reunited with her rescuer.
When Georgi was born with Down’s syndrome, the doctors told his parents he would have to live in an orphanage.