Recently by Kat Keogh

The next stop on my week-long visit to the Crimea with shoe box appeal Operation Christmas Child takes me to the coastal city of Feodosia.

After a somewhat bumpy two-hour drive through the snow, we pull up outside the Feodosia Republican orphanage, which is home to 50 children aged between four and 15.

A local church group are also on hand to help distribute present-filled shoe boxes to the children who live and are educated at the orphanage.

We are led up the stairs to a classroom where a group of children are patiently sat waiting for their presents.

Today we are taken to a tower block on the outskirts of Crimea's capital Simferopol to deliver the next batch of boxes with Operation Christmas Child.

Children play outside in the snow as we are led up a stairwell into a cramped, two-room apartment that is home to a family of seven.

Inside the flat, crouched in the corner of a bed, is six-year-old Eva.

Rostislav was just like another other six-year-old boy.

But when he started limping, his mother Svetlana knew something was wrong.

A visit to the doctor confirmed that Rostislav had contracted TB in his hip, so mother and son made the 1,200 km journey from their Chernobyl home for treatment at the Bobrov Children's Sanitorium in the Crimea.