Birthday of an Orphan

For an orphan a birthday isn't usually something you look forward to. It is sometimes a painful reminder that another year has passed and still no one cares.

We do our best to with what we have to try and make this day special for as many of the children we work with as possible. This is what Anya (Anya works with us in our outreach program) had to say about Lilya's birthday:

"Lilya turned 18 and there was no one to wish her Happy Birthday. I asked my friends to make a celebration for her. I also asked many of my friends to call her. I asked them to say something like that they heard that a special girl had her birthday and they wanted to wish her Happy Birthday. Even though she didn't know who they were she knew they were Christians. Praise God for the opportunity!"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILYA!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARINA!!!

We celebrated another birthday this month as well!

This is Karina! She turned 15 this month. For her birthday Anya and Olya took her to the park, bought her some balloons and later treated her to a home cooked meal at our transition home in Donetsk. 

 I would say Karina really liked her balloons!

Dinner! The girls always seem to like coming over and cooking together. It is great fun and they get to learn how to cook which is a skill not usually taught to them.

Tough Month for Orphans

A Tough Month for Orphans

Each September many of the orphans that we have been working with for years begin the next phase in their life as an orphan in Eastern Europe. This is the month when many of them graduate from the orphanage and move on to Trade Schools. When we make the rounds to visit them at this time they all ask us for help with food to get them through the month. The reason is, when they leave the orphanage they are given a little less than $5 USD to survive on until their government stipend kicks in, which takes about 3 to 4 weeks. Many of them have not been taught to plan ahead, so often they spend their $5 right away.

We were able to help a few of them so far, but we have about 50 more that could use help. It costs about $25 to get them through the month. This is an urgent need! Would you please consider helping?

This is whats in the bag.

Karina is one of the girls that we were able to help so far. We hope we can help many more.

We are not yet a 501c so your donations will not be tax deductible.

UPDATE

The chip-in counter wasn't working due to an error i made when setting it up...i'm learning though! BUT...we had some donations come in that allowed us to purchase food for 35 children to help them through this next week. We are still praying for provision to help about 15 more children as well as purchase food again next week to help them all through another week. By then their government stipend will kick in and they should be fine.

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