I have been searching through various videos about Ukraine. Here are some of the interesting ones.
CrossRoads Foundation provides humanitarian aid services for homeless children in Ukraine. They are an American charity. It looks like they mainly work with children in Kyiv.
- Street Children in Kiev, Ukraine – CrossRoads – Part 1
- Street Children in Kiev, Ukraine – CrossRoads – Part 2
This video created by Peace Corps Volunteers at the Pryluky district orphanage. It looks like Big Family Charity works at this orphanage. Big Family is a registered charity in Ukraine.
Orphans’ Hope Foundation is an American charity founded by a family who adopted from Mariupol Ukraine in 2001. They adopted again in 2006 from Borzna. It appears that Big Family Charity and Orphans’ Hope Foundation work together to improve conditions for the children at the Borzna orphanage. They don’t have a video, but I am including them because they have some great photos.
11 seconds of some teenagers walking around the Borzna Orphanage buildings.
Bethany Christian Services has a slide show of Ukrainian orphanages from their Fall 2006 trip.
Leslie during a visit to an Odessa orphanage fell in love with Kristina; an 11 year old Ukrainian girl. The family was later able to host her. And now they are trying to adopt her. Leslie posted a beautiful video of Kristina arriving at a US airport for the host program.
One Final Adoption is the CBS News story on Diane Sadovnikov. She is dying from cervical cancer. She founded Sense Resource Center in 1999. And she facilitated hundreds of Ukrainian adoptions. Now she has to find homes for her children before she dies.
And last but not least… You might want to subscribe to dykun. Part of his introduction is below. He has videos on Ukrainian folk dancing, a Hutsul wedding (Carpathian region) and a Baba feeding her chickens. I have enjoyed all of his videos.
Dykun means “a savage” in Ukrainian. This is the video-blog companion to my blog on things Ukrainian and Eastern European at www.dykun.blogspot.com. Presented here will be mostly videos from wanderings in Ukraine, Latvia, and the US.
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I grew up in Minneapolis, MN. My parents are both Ukrainian, and I describe myself as an Ukrainian-American, which means to me that I am neither American like those Americans who have not been raised within a diaspora or ethnic community, but also means that I am not “Ukrainian” like those born and raised in Ukraine–it’s a third identity entirely unto itself.