When his parents learned that he had a sickness, they gave up on him and abandoned him.
His parents took him to a hospital in Ukraine and abandoned him there after finding that he had hydrocephalus.
After that, Dima was abandoned and placed in the care of an orphanage for children with disabilities in Kramatorsk, which is in Eastern Ukraine.
Dima could not walk or eat by himself until he was four years old. He was not progressing in his growth at the time, and the staff at the orphanage felt that he would not mature in a manner that would be suitable for him.
Despite the fact that they all clung to the notion that he may survive for a while. Dima and the other employees at the orphanage considered it a miracle that they were still alive and healthy at the time.
The occupants of Dima’s orphanage were forced to leave the area in 2014 due to the violence and seek refuge in a zone that was substantially less unsafe.
Because there was a scarcity of food, water, and medicine, the orphanage’s residents expected Dima to fall prey to the conflict. They even called a priest to offer some prayers over him after he was declared dead.
Dima proved that he has the strength to win the fight despite the numerous obstacles he had to overcome. Dima and the other orphanage youngsters eventually emerged from their ordeal alive.
He eventually met a family from America who had previously adopted children. Seven adopted children had already been welcomed into the Vermont household of Ernest and Ruth Chaves.
They fell in love with Dima and decided to get married, so they did all the paperwork.
The parents of Dima are now a part of the Chaves family. Dima now goes by the name Zebadiah, which is a cute moniker for him.
Zebadiah quickly learned how to feed himself independently and is now able to walk with a walker because of the Chaves’ unwavering love and care. It is amazing how rapidly he was able to master each of these specialties.
Zebadiah is fully competent in both English and Ukrainian, and he is fully dedicated to pushing himself to continually advance his cognitive and motor abilities.
