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Alex Fourie interview with WUAW / NEWSMAX - Ukraine Under Attack

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 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.