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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — An East Tennessee man has a very personal reason for trying to help orphans in Ukraine. Alex Fourie lives in Tennessee, but he wasn’t born here.

Alex Fourie interview with WUAW / NEWSMAX - Ukraine Under Attack

Alex Fourie is an inspiration to all. Alex was in Ukraine with a cleft lip, cleft palate, and one arm which were a direct result of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Alex spent the first seven years of his life bouncing from orphanage to orphanage until he was adopted by a South African couple who…

Alex Fourie was adopted from a Ukrainian orphanage at the age of 7 and now this orphanage still contains 175 children in the thick of a war with Russia. Alex Fourie is now a 27-year-old man with a child living in Tennessee, which is a different world compared to what his life could've been like.