OREANDA-NEWS. On December 11, 2007 Victor Yuschenko, the President of Ukraine announced his intention to declare 2008 the “year of adoption of children”, reported the press-centre of Metinvest Group.

Businessmen Rinat Akhmetov and Victor Pinchuk will directly participate in the initiative of the President of Ukraine in providing help to large families. They made this statement during the meeting of the Head of State with representatives of government and major businesses “Warm child with love”.

“We shall unite our efforts – business, power and community. Children are our future. They have hard time and they need our help today”, said Rinat Akhmetov. He stated that Foundation for Development of Ukraine will be taking active part in the program “Helping large families” and is going to allocate UAH 15 million.