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My Forever Family

Why special needs children need really special families

Sadly, there are far too many unwanted children with mental and physical disabilities living in children’s homes all over Russia. But doctors and volunteers from the ‘Road of Life’ charity do their best to help the children and find new homes. Now they reach out to Sasha, a deaf teenage boy, and Yulia who suffers from a debilitating orthopaedic condition.

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