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The Authors are Volunteers to Ukraine Children.
Meet them here at
Ukraine Orphans!
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| Ela Besedena |
Ela Besedena, her Lonely Orphanage Journey
She could be anyone's child and she can still
live her dreams. But she needs a lot of help.
Please click on Ela's photo.
YouTube
Ukraine Orphan Ela is 18 and handicapped, she will be out of the orphanage next
month ... orphans orphan ukraine chernobyl pachi ela ... From: Pachi1952 5:28 Rate: Five Star
Please click on Ela's small photo.
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| Vladik Boyko |
Meet Vladik Boyko, Orphanage #3, Zaporozhye, Ukraine. He's coming to the US for a summer hosting
program.
You see Vladik holding up a letter and sign when asked if he would like to come to the US this summer. You see the response.
The great people at Frontier Horizon found a host family for Vladik and I hope his forever family. He wants a family
so much.
Do yourself and a great kid the favor of your life. Click on Vladik's photo and contact
the good folks at Frontier Horizon - there are more hosting events and more children who would like to come.
Thanks,
David
Ukrainian children's letters to God.
The Ukrainian
Observer published parts of letters to God written by Ukrainian Children. I was struck by the compelling wisdom
in this one.
"Well, Jesus suffered for people's sake, and for what sake do people suffer?"
Grisha,
4th grade
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| Hopeful Hearts Invites You |
Lexington Herald
Group helps orphans in Ukraine
By Jim Niemi
It was April
1998 when Kathy and Bob Drane and their daughter, Jessica, first came face to face with the 22-month-old twin girls in a Ukranian
orphanage.
“I had walked right by them, but Jessica was sitting on a curb holding them,’’
Kathy Drane said. “I was 46, my daughter was 13, and I had no intention of adopting them. But Jess said, ‘Mom,
we've got such a big house.' She really spurred us on.”
Please click on the photo to read this
special story.
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| Hopeful Hearts Transition Home |
Here is a link to Hopeful Hearts Foundation. It takes you to the Go page, about their mission.
Once there click on the video. Watch carefully. There is a glimpse of a little girl eating borsch. This is not
the borsch I make. Mine is so full of good things the wooden spoon will literally stand up in the pot!
Explore their site! Please click on the
photo. Hopeful Hearts Foundation is doing important things for the "graduating" orphans leaving the orphanages.
David
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| Artist Lerochka Skriprik of Zaporizhzhya, now deceased |
Lerochka Skriprik was truly talented and taken much too soon.
Maybe she is needed to paint rainbows and other wonderous things for us.
Please click on her painting.
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| Flag of Scotland |
Sport.Scotsman dot com Hibs supporters to travel back to Ukraine for Dnipro Appeal Published Date: 24 June 2008 By LINDA SUMMERHAYES “HUNGRY and penniless, the emaciated young woman clutching her crying, undernourished baby was
in a desperate situation. Having been abandoned by the child's alcoholic father, the young family had no means of income
and was struggling to survive.
She faced a stark choice – hand over her child to one of the Ukraine's overcrowded
orphanages or risk her hungry baby's health and well-being.
Fortunately, she eventually found her way to a
charity-run crisis centre in the city of Dnipropetrovsk which is now able to help thanks to the generosity of Hibs supporters.” “Hibs” as
it is affectionately called above is the Hibernian Football (soccer) Club located in Edinburgh, Scotland. Congratulations to the team and its supporters!
Please click on the flag of Scotland to read about this special activity.
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| Israeli Flag |
JTA Breaking
News
Israeli doctors
to operate in Ukraine
6/19/08
Israeli physicians
will provide heart surgery for children in Ukraine under a joint venture with a Ukrainian foundation.
The Aleksandr Feldman Charitable
Foundation and Save a Child’s Heart launched a project Tuesday in Ukraine to provide urgent pediatric heart surgery
and follow-up care that Ukrainian physicians cannot provide.
Please click on the flag!
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| Muisc Camp International |
This is a
Wow!
“PRWeb Press
Release Newswire"
“Music Camp International Sets record for Ukrainian Book of Records in Artek, Ukraine"
“Scotts Valley, CA (PRWEB) May 28, 2008 -- A children's choir of more than 800 non-auditioned
children, accompanied by the Simferopol Orchestra of Chamber Musical Theater, presented a concert, "Children for Peace", at
Artek, International Children's Center on May 8.
“A choir of more than 800 orphans and disadvantaged children sang the
great classical music of Hadyn along with national music and spirituals after only one week of training."
Do read the article
and at the bottom visit the website of Music Camp International. At the bottom of the home page take advantage
of the chance to listen to a wonderful selection of their concerts.
Please click on the photo.
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| Ukaine Flag Flying |
From Ukrainian
Radio “21-05-2008 16:17 President
and Presidential Secretariat help Lotykove children's house in Luhansk region.”
“The weekly
wage of President Viktor Yushchenko and Presidential Secretariat Head Viktor Baloha, as well as one-day salaries of the Secretariat's
workers will be transferred as a charity to the account of the children's house.
“The goal of this project is
to support orphan children and children deprived of parental care, as well as to strengthen public attention to their problems.
As of today, workers of the Presidential Secretariat transferred UAH 158,495 to the account of the children's house. “In all, the average
sum of the charity should amount to UAH 170,000. Viktor Yushchenko urged to support this charity initiative and render financial
aid to children's houses by June 1, Child Protection Day.” This is strong! Congratulations to
President Viktor Yushchenko and Presidential Secretariat Head Viktor Baloha. Lotykove appears to be about 275 km
east of Zaporizhzhya.
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| Friendship Flags American and Ukrainian |
Another Awesome Adoption
reporterherald.com
Finding Family
Orphans from Ukraine find open homes and hearts in local families
“Before Kris and Clarke Stoesz
started the Ukraine Orphan Outreach, the Berthoud
couple had long desired to adopt several children….. They had two biological children, who were teenagers, but they
wanted to expand their family.
“In 2003, the Stoeszes brought home their newly adopted daughter, Natalie, who was 3 at the time….. In 2005,
they adopted 7-year-old Luke, now 10, and his 9-year-old biological sister Rhya, who is now 13.”
Please click on the Friendship Flags above to
read this uplifting story by Amber Baker.
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| Friendship Flags, American and Ukrainian |
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!
I’m late in posting and linking to this wonderful adoption story from The Akron Beacon Journal at Ohio.com.
Please allow me to dedicate this post to all
the adoptive parents where ever they are and to their adoptive children where ever they were found.
To read this wonderful story by Kim Hone-McMahan
please click on the Friendship Flags.
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| British Flag |
Keighley News
Molly hands toys to Ukrainian orphans
By Miran Rahman
“A girl from Black Hill, in Keighley, has shown how even a six-year-old can make a positive difference
to the world.
“Early this year, Molly
Nolan donated some of her own new Christmas toys to an orphanage in Vinogradiv, in Ukraine.
“She said she thought the children there probably did not have any toys, so would be
happy to use things she was unlikely to play with.”
Once again a child shows the way to kindness. Please click on the British flag.
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| Andryusha Starving in Kalinovka Orphanage |
For me, if I could write Grisha a letter I would simply say, “Grisha, it’s the greed
of the grown ups, the adults, for which the children suffer.”
Andryusha suffering from malnutrition exhaustion; a patient at the children’s home at Kalinovka, 5 February 2008.
Please click on the picture and think how you
would answer Grisha.
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| In mourning for Andryusha |
News from
the Children’s Home in Kalinovka
by Albert Pavlov, Zaporozhye, and
translated by Andrew Shenk, Carleton College, USA.
“On
March 11, (2008) Andryusha (the boy with terminal malnutrition and the center of the incident which led to the firestorm of
publicity) died.
“In February Andryusha
stayed for a week in the Chernigov Regional Hospital, gained some weight, and was then transferred back
to Kalinovka.
“Unfortunately, even at the hospital, they were unable to discover the cause of his vomiting. I trust that the Lord
received this little martyr into heaven and that the soul of Andryusha found peace.”
We must understand that a Ukrainian
in Ukraine, until now, speaking out the way Albert did is very risky. Albert Pavlov isn’t
a firebrand reformer.
He is an ordinary family man, overworked and underpaid and underappreciated by society. He has compassion and courage
that are extraordinary.
Please click on the ribbon
to open this ground breaking story.
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| American Ukraine Friendship Flags |
The Birmingham News
Sunday April 13, 2008 By Paul Beaudry
“This isn't a normal
April day. Instead of dealing with everyday life in Birmingham, the Hoods are some 6,200 miles away, changing their lives forever.”
Yes! Tak! Please read on – Please click
on the flags and read on!
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