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Children of Zaporozhye

About two orphanages I visited in Ukraine ( updated) - Children of Zaporozhye ????? Google

My experience with Orphanages in Ukraine; by Sonia Paz Baron-Vine
When I hear horror stories about orphanages in Ukraine, it makes me sad, so I have to speak up for the ones I have visited and tell you about them.
I have been personally in two orphanages in Ukraine. Not as a visitor for a day. But I have spent one month in one orphanage and one week in the other I have met both orphanage directors and I have donated several things to both orphanages.
My trip was in 1998

We Care Too California Non Profit Organizations
Mellowswan Foundation - helps disabled and deformed orphans worldwide come to California to have corrective surgery

Ukraine Orphans
www.ukraineorphans.net
Mellowswan Foundation has kindly allowed me to link to their site. ....
Link to this BBC News article at the top of the blog.


Mellowswan Foundation
Helping Disabled Orphans Worldwide

Sonia Paz Baron-Vine had a dream of making a difference in the lives of disabled orphans. Sonia is a polio survivor herself and could relate to their suffering.

After raising her three biological children, she adopted one disabled little girl with genetic malformations from Russia in 1994 and again in 1999 two disabled little boys from Ukraine, also with genetic malformations, due to their parents exposure to the radiation cloud, that covered Ukraine from the nuclear accident of Chernobyl.

Please click on the photo to go to Sonia’s Foundation





HopeDance Magazine
California
Radical Solutions
Inspiring Hope

Published on: 3/20/2004



Adopting Disabled Children?Local poet Sonia Paz Baron-Vine, a single mom of 3 biological children decided to make a difference and adopted 3 disabled orphans in the late 90’s. Now that her children are healthy she has decided to create Mellowswan Foundation and offer disabled orphans from all over the world a refuge post surgery, nestled in our blessed county, a country place where children can discover nature and animals. Please call 594-1104 if you or someone you know can help make her dream a reality or go to www.MellowswanFoundation.org.

The Comission for Children at Risk
www.comission.org
www.comission.org/organization -
Published on: 1/1/2006


Sonia Baron-Vine, a polio survivor and single mother of three healthy biological children, who adopted three deformed orphans from Russia and Ukraine in 1994 and 1999. While in Ukraine she spent a month at the orphanage for deformed children in Tsurupinks, where she realized that many of the resident orphans could have simple corrective surgeries and implants that could change their lives and improve their chances of being adopted. She founded Mellowswan Foundation with the goal of building a refuge here in California where the sick orphans could stay pre and post surgery.