The Truth About the Family Type Orphanages

We are very pleased that you are reading this page now. This means you are interested to know about guardianship. Our Foundation provides support to people who have chosen a mission of being a Parent with a capital letter. We want to share positive attitude with you, instill optimism and confidence in success, if you decide to accept a few kids to your family, or create a family-type orphanage. But let’s remind to ourselves what pictures come to people’s minds, when they hear the phrase “Children’s house”?

Gray buildings, melancholic faces, frightened children …

What if we say that everything is vice versa?! Most people do not even notice the full name of the described phenomenon, which sounds like a “Family-type children’s home”. Mass media are too busy hunting sensations and ratings, so we, ordinary people, receive only a small part of the truth about who these “orphans” are and how they live. This is why we have information only about the negative events in orphans’ life. As is well known, it is human nature to avoid things we know little about, which results in the existence of “our well-familiar life“ and beyond a certain point – the “outsiders”, “orphans”.

In order to see with our own eyes the life of those, who receive help from the Foundation, and to find out if the words “orphanage” or “foster child” are as awful as they are considered in our society, as a part of the Good Cause Every Day! promo event we have visited the Hutorny family. It will never even come to one’s mind to call this friendly family officially – “Children’s home of a family type”.

The first thought that occurs to you when you come into the three-level apartment, smelling sweet of cinnamon rolls, calmness and coziness, is “Who’s luckier? Children from ordinary families, or these kids”.. The whole house is filled with children’s crafts. You see decoupage, paintings, postcards, drawings, photographs, diplomas virtually in every room. This is truly significant, because that much love and creativity, caring and friendship can seldom be found in modern secured families.

Our little guide, an eight-year-old Anastasia with the pride of a princess showed us into a floor by a floor and introduced us to her brothers and sisters (now the Khutorny family includes 12 children up to 18 years of age, and in the coming months it is going to adopt three more girls). Every minute we became more and more convinced that the expression “family-type children’s home” is more than a formal one. Mother (as all children call her) Lubov Alekseevna told us about the apartment that was granted to the family for as long as the children live there.

“The rooms are very large, and as the state allocated an apartment for a certain period of time, we could not put up privacy-walls. This is why we ordered sliding door wardrobes to let one or two children live in one room and give them more privacy”.

A modern redecoration and positive atmosphere in the teenagers’ rooms resembled us a sort of teenage film series.

We finished the excursion around the house and sat down at the table. Potato dumplings, cinnamon pies, poppy seed rolls, buns with cherry – all of the incredibly delicious and flavorful treats were cooked by the girls themselves! Brides ready for marriage – this is what one can say about the Hutorny girls! Cute, educated, interesting to speak to, handywomen and perfect homemakers. It is worth saying, that half of what is easily done by the “orphanage-girls,” is very difficult for the majority of today’s teenagers.

The purpose of our visit was a master-class on making bracelets and cards with the quilling technique. So after a delicious dinner we handed out paints, paper, ribbons, bracelets, and during the creative process a warm confidential conversation took place.

It is this conversation, during which we learned about the “magic life of the slippers in the house”, a trip to a dolphin therapy, about victories and the diplomas, dreams and successes of the Hutornys, that inspired us to write this article. We felt a great desire to show everyone who is mentally almost ready for adoption or the creation of a family-type orphanage – do not be afraid! A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step! More love, events, joy and meaning will come into your life. The state supports such families with accommodation, conducts interesting trainings for foster parents, allocates two living wages for each child. Charities will also support you in situations that require outside help. After all, with love in our hearts we are building a new world!