Danyil is only eighteen, yet his life has already been shaped by loss and resilience. After losing his mother at the age of three and growing up without a present father, he moved between caregivers before finding stability with his aunt and uncle. Though he...

It was Valentine’s Day. Nastya was just a little girl, carefully preparing small cards for her classmates, each one filled with the kind of simple love only a child knows how to give. The kind that doesn’t ask questions. The kind that believes the world is...

She remembers the feeling of home — not the orphanage, not the institutions, but a brief time when she had a mother, a father, and a family. After being placed in the orphanage at age three, Yana’s life became a series of transitions without stability....

Tanya Sych knows what it means to grow up without the safety of a real home. She was one of six children taken into an orphanage after addiction consumed her family. Her mother drank heavily, used drugs, and cycled in and out of prison. Her father, Tanya...

Dasha Rybinska was only ten years old when social services came and took her and her siblings away. No one explained it plainly. They were simply told they were being taken somewhere else, somewhere like a hospital. In reality, they were being placed in an...

Capturing Grace on a journey to Moldova [vc_zigzag color="green" el_border_width="8" css_animation="fadeInDown"] There are some stories that do not come rushing out. They emerge carefully, almost reluctantly, as if they have spent years learning how to survive by staying hidden. That was Anna. When I sat down with her in Moldova,...

Capturing Grace on a journey to Moldova [vc_zigzag color="green" el_border_width="8" css_animation="fadeInDown"] The coffee shop was warm and full of conversation when I met Cornelia. She stood behind the counter with the calm confidence of someone who has learned to carry more than most seventeen-year-olds ever should. Cornelia works as...

Capturing Grace on a journey to Moldova [vc_zigzag color="green" el_border_width="8" css_animation="fadeInDown"] There are places you visit that stay with you because of what you saw. And then there are places that stay with you because of what they did to your heart. Come and See was that kind of...