There are five children in Helen's family.  All five children are siblings and spent four years in an orphanage. The children have been living with Helen since 2018 and we have been helping support them since 2019. They live in a village in the Sergiev Posadskiy district in the Moscow region. Because Helen must often be away for work, we have hired a second foster mother named Lucia to assist Helen.   

 

Kolya is the oldest and was born in 2002.  Several years ago, he had trauma to his hip and now one leg is shorter than the other.  In 2019 he was in the hospital for this and now needs correctional/orthopedic insoles for his shoes.   Daniil was born in 2005 and suffers with frequent fevers as well as having speech problems. Sofia was born in 2006 and has curvature of her spine, as well as flat feet. Ivan was born in 2008 and has speech problems. He also works with a physical therapist.  Darya was born in 2009 and sees an endocrinologist.  She stutters when she is nervous and needs to work with a speech therapist.  

 

Helen and all five of her children are one big happy family and they are all very blessed to have each other!

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09/2022 FAMILY UPDATES: We continue to pay Lucia to help Helen take care of the five children, as she is a single mother who also works full time.