Alice Evans, Managing Editor

Odessa District, Ukraine—Roosters crowed in the background as we arrived at this government-run shelter in Belgorod near the Black Sea outside Odessa. Here we met a group of children in temporary care. These children came to the shelter in various ways, most of them taken through court action [...]

Alice Evans, Managing Editor

Uman, Ukraine—Light shining through sheer lace curtains helped ease the institutional setting at the Uman Rehabilitation Center for Children with Disabilities. A small group of children with a variety of special needs played happily in a central meeting room. Smells wafted from the kitchen, and when we went in [...]

Alice Evans, Managing Editor

Uman Boarding School, Ukraine–The children for the moment are excited and happy, about to leave for the seashore. Bags packed, one little dark-haired girl sits waiting at the edge of the sidewalk with her luggage. Or maybe it’s group luggage. I find it hard to imagine these children having more [...]

Alice Evans, Managing Editor

Uman Relief Nursery, Ukraine–When Peter and Nadia arrive at the Uman Relief Nursery every Monday and Wednesday morning, the first thing staff members do is bathe the little brother and sister.

Warm water. Soap. Something we take for granted but a special experience for Peter and Nadia–and which has now become routine in [...]

Alice Evans, Managing Editor

HIV Childcare and Parent Resource Center, Kiev, Ukraine—As we waited for a bus that would take us to the Center for HIV-Affected Families and Children, I saw a young woman in ponytail and jeans walk up to a blue donation box and drop in some coins. A sign on the box [...]

Alice Evans, Managing Editor

Father’s House, Kiev, Ukraine—Some of the children came from underground—the cellars, sewers and tunnels of Kiev. But the environment we saw at Treasure Island was more like the green and open-air world of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, where loving adults looked after about 15 or so street ruffians who agreed [...]