the impossible adoption of orphaned children

Dennis is two years old and has just been taken in by an orphanage. “Dennis lived in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine. There are a lot of fights there. His parents would have been killed. Now he is safe with us. Here is a refuge“, says Anna Goarslev, the‘educator who holds it in the arms. In this orphanage in Lviv, in the west of the country, the oldest is 17 years old. Some have lost family members, others were orphans before the war. All were evacuated from the towns bombed by the Russians.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do. I lived near Donetsk. There were a lot of fights. I have to stay here if I want to be protected“, testifies Vova, 16 years old. The more the days pass, the more children there are in this orphanage. The supervisors are preparing for it by adding additional beds in the reception rooms. The director, she is forced to managing the evacuation of orphans from combat zones by telephone Adoption is prohibited in countries at war.