Ukrainian orphans trapped in war

International humanitarian group Save the Children counts 100,000 orphans still in Ukraine, housed in close to 700 children’s homes there. The international sources put the number at about 180,000. 

"Because Russia is bombing various places, including civilian targets such as hospitals, schools and residential buildings, we are assured that we have no safe place to hide children," said a spokesman for Save the Children.

The nearly 200,000 orphans in Ukraine are especially traumatized by Russia’s invasion that has displaced millions of civilians, according to a Southern Baptist adoption and orphan care minister who has adopted three children from Ukraine.

Around 90 percent of those kids are not adoptable; they’re not true orphans. So a lot of them are social orphans that still have family ties and there’s at least the possibility for reunification (with their families.).A lot of the children in orphanages have special needs 

The Vatican also announced that 19 Ukrainian children are currently being treated for cancer, neurological diseases and severe war injuries caused by explosions in two branches of Bambito Gosu Hospital.

About 50 children have been treated in Italian hospitals since the start of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.

"The blood and tears of children, the suffering of men and women defending their land or fleeing bombings shake our conscience," the Argentine leader of the world's Catholics said in a message to a church conference in Slovakia on Friday.

 

_{Source and Credit: Christian News, Vatican News}