Ukraine Children's Project

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Baby Nest in Vinnitsa

Shown here are pictures from an orphanage we have had limited access to in the last few years...>>Read on

At the Crossroads

Everyday we hear heartbreaking stories of Ukrainian orphans who struggle to survive in orphanages and fail after they enter a too-early adult life. We want to tell you three stories of children standing at the crossroads of life outside the gates of the orphanage...>> Read on

... Ukraine Children’s Project came into my orphanage ... I began to hope!

Marina Adams is a young lady, now sixteen and a student at StoneBridge School, who was adopted from the Ladizhin orphanage at the age of ten. She wrote this letter out of her heart and offered it to UCP to help her friends remaining in Ukraine... >>Read on

Updates from the Field- April 2006... >>Read on

Taking the Christmas Story into Orphanages!

Ukraine Children's Project has been taking teams to Ukraine for Ukrainian Christmas for four years. But last year when I went to my church for the Family Christmas service I saw the Christmas story with my daughter through this magnificent puppet performance. I knew right away this was what we needed in Ukraine to teach the children the story of Christ’s Birth... >>Read on

In October 2005, I went on my first mission trip to Ukraine. I had been asked as an Ophthalmologist assistant to go and help with eye exams and I was both nervous and excited but thrilled to be going. We worked with the Ukrainian Ophthalmologist refracting the children, fitting about 100 children for frames so the prescription could be filled in the US... >>Read on

On October 29th, eleven of us, with Jack and Beth Newman as team leaders, boarded a plane for Ukraine. Under the umbrella of the Ukraine Children’s Project, this was a trip taken with the primary purpose of ministering to orphans. We had no idea what to expect... >>Read on

A 12 year old little girl cried to come home with me. Deeply moved with compassion and overwhelmed with emotion, I went back to her, teary-eyed myself, to embrace her, to console her as best I could. With amazing strength that can only come from God, I... >>Read on

Marina; From Orphan to UCP Team Member

The van approached the level four orphanage at Ladizhin on the Bog River two hundred miles west of Kiev. Marina’s heart beat very fast. All the dread, all the nightmares, all the fears of her life centered . . . >>Read on

The Transforming Power of Compassion

The first visit to the orphanage at Ladyzhin three years ago was one of the most difficult of all. In a remote area occupying a former Young Communist camp, this level four orphanage was . . .>>Read on

Vladimir: The Effect of a Father in a Boy’s Day

He watched the Frisbee ripping through the stifling August air. It was lunch time, but the excitement of fencing with balloon helmets and swords and weaving macramé bracelets softened the . . . >>Read on

Vova Lyut: “Get Me Out of Here”

His story started in Kiev his birthplace. Raised without a father with limited care from his alcoholic mother he was taken to the government orphanage. At his early age he started to experiment with . . .>>Read on

His amazing love…

Sixteen year old, Vicka’s words still echo in my mind, “I’ve never loved anyone as much as I love you.” Clear memories of Misha’s face, wet with tears because...>> Read on

Life is Precious

A new beautiful day has arrived, full of sun, rain, or snow, depending on the climate zone or the time of the year. However, the second your foot touches the floor...>> Read on

Through God’s Eyes

I opened the door to walk into Ladizhin, a level four orphanage, one warm July day in Ukraine. Though the hall was quite dark and gloomy, I saw a door across from it and through the window I saw...>>Read on