Boarding school for retarded children The boarding school houses 184 kids, of whom 112 are invalids. Deputy Director Yuliya Nickalayevna (photo) says: “Parents abandoned these poor children and made them orphans. Many of the kids have low level of intellect. Some of them don’t even able to define their sex. Eight form pupils’ level is the same as that of first form pupils at normal school. Such retardation is sometimes a consequence of fetal alcohol syndrome or various pregnancy pathologies. However, 80% cases have unclear origin. Chernobyl catastrophe is surely one of the influencing factors, and the number of such children grows year by year." Ljosha (photo on the left) is 10. He suffers from Dawn Syndrome. He became interested in the books, and Natalya Mickailovna the nurse will help him understand the biblical truths (photo), all the more so that Natalya is a Christian, and her husband is an Orthodox priest. The children have very limited possibilities of finding job after finishing school. Only some of them are intellectually powerful enough to get qualification for the job of a plasterer, painter, landscape worker. The rest of the children go to the homes for disabled. But however their life might be in the future, we believe that the Word of God will work in their hearts.