Welcome to Happy Families!

Happy Families International Center, inc. is a Non-Profit Humanitarian Organization with the Mission of Helping Orphaned Children have better lives. The offering of ongoing assistance to children in need is essential to our work.

I Want to Walk program is dedicated to orphaned children with missing limbs make their dream “to walk” come true. [ read more here ]

Russian Children’s Folk Festival, our annual program helps many orphaned children see life outside of their orphanage and change their lives forever. [ read more here ]

HFIC is a NYS licensed child placement organization, committed to finding homes for orphaned and abandoned children. The staff of HFIC recognizes that the process of child placement is a personal path that brings a family together. HFIC is sensitive to the individual needs of our families and the unique services that each family may require. With this in mind, we offer you our many years of skilled, professional, guidance in a personal and caring manner.

Accredited according to Hague Convention guidelines by the US Department of State through the Council on Accreditation

Accredited in the Russian Federation

Members:

We welcome you to our website and to call or e-mail us for further information. We would be happy to give you the names of families who have gone through our programs!

I Want to Walk – Special Event
A few more orphaned children are getting
the chance to walk!
On September 4th at the Theater of Dramatic Art in Moscow, Natasha Shaginian-Needham with the Artist Foundation organized and hosted the event ‘I Want to Walk’ for orphaned children with missing limbs. Famous actors read wonderful poems written by children from the orphanage. The talented children of Vladimir Spivakov's Foundation produced a musical program devoted to these children who dream to walk. The funds raised will support the children travelling to the Dallas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Texas for surgery and prosthetics.
[ read more here ]

Headlines and Events

12th Annual Russian Children's Folk Festival
Orphaned children from Kaliningrad region in Russia will be travelling to Houston, TX for a two week stay in June 2010 to perform several concerts. They will experience life with host families in the U.S. and share their Russian Culture through wonderful traditional songs and dance. [ read more here ]

11th Annual Russian Children's Folk Festival
The 2009 Russian Children’s Folk Festival held in early June was a great success! A group of 14 children from Russian orphanages performed Russian Folk Song and Dances and shared their Russian Culture with us. They returned to Russia with memories of their visit here that will last a lifetime. Thank you to the host families and to all who participated in this great event. To all who supported this year’s festival through your generous contributions of time and money, we want to express our deepest appreciation. [ Photos ]