Наш самый эмоционально сложный Новогодний утренник.

We visited a different world. A world that is a stark contrast to the Donetsk orphanages, a world enclosed in a gray two-story building. The miner's boarding school for children with disabilities. This is where kids with disabilities from all over the region come after the Baby House.

This is where most of the children will live almost their entire lives. 240 pupils.240 destinies.Cerebral Palsy, autism, hydrocephalus, Down syndrome, microcephaly, cleft lip, cleft palate, deformity, mental retardation.With such diagnoses children come here.

More than half of them are orphans.Emotions, no, a storm of emotions, which here cannot be contained, it is impossible to describe in one word.Pity, pain, helplessness, anger. Pity for these children who were left behind the lines of normal life. The pain that slips into their eyes. The helplessness that many of them can no longer be helped.

Anger at the war, indifference to these children, at the system, at fate, in the end, which played such a cruel joke on them. Our Natasha, a lively and bright ten-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother because of a physical disability. Who we visited for six months in the Budyonnovsky hospital. Who each time ran (as best she could with her unhealthy legs) to meet us and joyfully asked: "You came to pick me up? A 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus, who was left in a dog kennel by his parents. Natasha and Tolik are already in the house for invalids. Natasha is almost six months old. Tolik only a month. But for them there is no difference. A month, a year, it's like time has stopped here.

We invited the animators and all the way from Donetsk to Shakhtyorsk we were worried about how the children would meet them. Our worries dissipated as soon as the kids arrived in the hall. They were all smiling and instantly engaged in the game!

They were lively, creative and bright! My friends!

Look in their eyes! They want to be regular kids! And like any child, they want love and attention! And we have to notice them! And do EVERYTHING so that the ruthless machine called "the system" no longer grinds up children's fates because they are just different. We did everything we could to make sure that kids don't forget to be happy, to instill warmth, love and hope into their hearts!

A huge thank you to "Liverpool" and its representative Anton, and to the management and friendly team of "Avoska", who made this holiday possible!

Don't get tired of doing good and helping those who really need it!