Svitlana Pavlyuk

40849Child ID: 40849 Ukraine

Sveta (Sveta is short for Svitlana) is one of eight children in her family. She is attending the eighth grade.  Her favorite school subject is physics.  When Sveta is not at school and has free time, she likes to rollerblade.

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Svitlana Bosa

40858Child ID: 40858 Ukraine

Svetlana lives in a five-room house with her seven siblings and parents in a small village. This is a Chernobyl area and people suffer from many different diseases here. Svetlana has very weak immune system and an enlarged thyroid gland.

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Valeria Misko

40689Child ID: 40689 

Lera (variant of Valeria) is nice girl. Lera has problems with her health (vascular and digestive systems). When she was four years old, she had a disease that disabled her from walking for seven months.

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Yevgenia Yezerskaya

41261Child ID: 41261 Ukraine

Zhenya (variant for Yevgenia) is the only child in the family. Her delivery was so hard that she has cerebral palsy as a consequence of it. She didn’t walk until she was three years old. Now she can walk although still with difficulty.

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Tymofiy Kryachok

41723Child ID: 41723 Ukraine

Tima (short for Tymofiy) comes from a family of five. They live in a new apartment after living for many years in a tiny one-room one. Tymofiy has three brothers: Yevgeniy, 1985 (from father's first marriage), Artem, 1996 and Nazar, 2004.

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Igor Khvalynskyi

41416Child ID: 41416 Ukraine

Igor lives in Ukraine, one of the ex-Soviet republics, which became famous all over the world after the Chernobyl accident. He lives in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Igor’s mother is an alcoholic and has been deprived of her parental rights.

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Sergiy Pyavka

41338Child ID: 41338 Ukraine

Sergiy lives with his mother, father and older brother in a small Ukrainian town. Sergiy’s father still works as an engineer for agricultural company. His mother also works and is involved in a bookkeeping occupation.

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Artem Batechko

41326Child ID: 41326 Ukraine

Artem lives with his parents and older sister in a small Ukrainian town, Konotop. Artem’s father and mother work as guards in Kiev and go there in turns. Artem has health problems.  He suffers from a light form of cerebral palsy.

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