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The Authors are Volunteers to Ukraine Children.
Meet them here at
Ukraine Orphans!
Україна Сироти!
"Well, Jesus suffered for people's sake, and for what
sake do people suffer?" Grisha, 4th grade Published by "The Ukrainian Observer". .
Meet Irina Gavrisheva
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| Irina Gavrisheva in meeting |
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| Irina Gavrisheva |
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| The Referee |
Irina’s heart could stop at any time and place, awake or
asleep. She faces death constantly. As a proud American and friend of Ira and Ukraine I say, we can not afford to lose Irina Gavrisheva.
Allow me to say that again. Мы не можем позволить
себе терять Ирина Гавришева.
No podemos permitirnos perder Irina Gavrisheva. .
Irina needs
$20 US from 400 people to have a heart pacemaker implanted. Her heart must not stop again. She will not ask for herself. She
asks only for the sick children of Ukraine. Her friends are asking you for your help. She must return to the hospital in Germany November
20, 2009. It is hoped they will provide the surgery. . Please click on any
of her photos. This will take you to her story. Thanks . . .
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| Just a boy named Yuri |
. “Dr. Vincent Rosini recalls: I recently met Yuri, a 15-year-old boy, at an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine. He had arrived from a local shelter
about 8 months ago. I was giving out candy at the orphanage cafeteria and saw him sitting alone eating at one of the tables.
I could not help but notice his burns and his severely deformed hands.” .
Please click
on Yuri’s hands and follow his story on Frontier Horizon. Just scroll down to the bottom the opening page and follow
the internal links. You will be glad you did. . . .
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| Dana Shumanska |
“Laws of Life” by Dana Shumanska, Дана Шуманська, age 16 . "If everyone were kind our world would become a very pleasant
place to live." . Posted on the internet by Stryi Gymnasium, Ukraine,
July 2003 .
Click on Dana's photo - that will take you to the blog page
where you can read her remarkable essay.
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| Welcome |
Welcome with traditional Ukrainian bread and salt!
Greeting Bread and Salt. Привітання
Хліб і Сіль. . Please click on the photo to meet the Starfish Thrower. You can make a difference.
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| Melanya Besedina, previously known as Ela Besedina |
Ela Besedina, Ельвіра Бєсєдіна,
her journey to become Melanya Besedina, Меланья
Бєсєдіна: from an orphan to a whole, wanted and
loved young lady.
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Melanya Besedina, formerly known as Ela Besedina. Меланья
Бєсєдіна, раніше
відомий як Ельвіра
Бєсєдіна.. Меланья
Беседина, которую раньше
знали как Эльвира Беседина.
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Please
click photo to read her story.
It's time to think about the special time of year for giving.
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| Frontier Horizon Banner |
Frontier Horizon Christmas/Winter Wish Program . Please click on the
banner to go to Frontier Horizon. There please play the video at the very top of the opening page. If you wish to participate
please click on the donate tab or go to the bottom of the page for the address where you can sent your check. . You will touch a young life – they will never know who or how or why it was done. You will. .
Thank You, David . .
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| These orphans are smiling! |
An Orphan Smiles . You can help An Orphan
Smiles deliver some Christmas cheer to Ukrainian orphans. Please click on the photo and it will take you to the place
where you can help. . If you would like to know more about An Orphan Smiles please scroll down
the page and click on their composite photo there. . My granddaughter Ella, whom you saw just
above, graduated from the orphanage in Tsurupinks that is helped by An Orphan Smiles. . Thank you,
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| Graduation Certificate |
From The Day Weekly Digest. By Oksana Mykoliuk The Day. Photos by Ruslan Kaniuka,
The Day. . “There is no hiding the fact that for the 33 graduates of this boarding school
childhood ended a long time ago. For some, it ended when they were thrown out by their parents and had to live in basements,
or when their parents were jailed. . Most
of the children enrolled in Boarding School No. 3 still have biological parents, but their school instructors have become
their true fathers and mothers.” .. So, what do these graduates
do? They are not prepared for life “outside”. . Please
click on the photo for the complete thought provoking article.
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| An Orphan Smiles |
An
Orphan Smiles – a dream. . You can do this! Please please click on the composite and see how desperately these kids need help. . Look in these tabs for smiles – few and far between. You can help change that. . KIDS Orphanage 12, KIDS Mykolaivka,
GAP Tsurupinks, GAP Orphanage 12, GAP Mykolaivka . When you go to GAP Tsurupinks you will see Ella, yes she is the same Ella now known as Melanya you see above. . Straight to the point -
the other kids you see desperately need help, desperately. They are Ella's friends. . If you don't believe
you can make a difference click on her photo above and then on her hands. You will see the change to a new person from an
18 year old frightened child trying to smile. You can help make smiles happen for these children! . This is real. It does require a village. You can help create a village of loving care for one of
these kids. Make it a life time commitment. .
Please click on the composite.
There is a new emphasis and section here on ukraineorphans.net.
It is about the orphans who are graduating out of their orphanages, usually at age sixteen with a possible ninth grade
education. Possible means perhaps.
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| Hopeful Hearts Transition Home |
My small efforts to help Ela have opened my eyes to this
need. Her orphanage directors did their best for her, but they are constrained by the system and their limited resources.
It has taken a strong advocating
group for Ela, starting with Sonia Paz Baron-Vine in California, to a wonderful gentleman in Moscow, to three orphanage directors
and especially to Inna and Albert in Zaporozhie. Please
click on the photo to go the new page about Ukraine Graduate Orphans. You can link back from there.
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| Orphans Promise Logo |
Сироти Обіцянка
функціонує п'ять навчальних
центрів для дітей-сиріт,
які є старіння зі своїх
дитячих будинках. Ці
діти не мають підтримки.
Ці центри знаходяться
в Києві, Донецьку, Бердянськ,
Тернопільської та Петровськ
.. . . . A Ministry of The Christian Broadcasting Network. . "To date Orphans Promise has five training centers, up and fully running to help train, mentor,
and disciple young people who are about to “age out” of the government system or are already out. These are kids
with no support system. Our centers are in Kiev, Donetsk, Beryansk, Ternopil and Petrivsti.". . Click on the logo to find out how to be involved. . ‘ ..
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| Nastya Sizonenko |
"Насправді
це не є якоюсь ситуації,
коли немає ніякої надії",
сказав німецький професор
Насті Sizonenko на прощання. Так,
слово "сподіваюся" був
сенс всієї Настя поїздки
до Німеччини.". . “Actually this is not a kind of a situation, when there is no hope”,
told German professor to Nastya Sizonenko at parting. Yes, the word ‘hope’ was the sense of the whole Nastya’s
trip to Germany.”. . Source: deti.zp.ua. Author: Iryna Havrysheva, translated by Marina Alekseenko. 2009-07-31. . “Currently Nastya, the jolly girl is hardly allowed to laugh – it can
cause veins rupture and hemorrhage. Laugh, just laugh can kill the child!!! After all the rescue is on the way, the doctors
bring hope!!! And one obstacle – money… Please help Nastya use her chance!!!. .. “She has believed that she would have a future and it is worth to fight for! Owing to medicines Nastya has put
on weight, feels good both physically and morally. She longs for walks, friends, normal life. She regularly takes medicines,
prescribed in Germany and dreams about going to Germany again, undergoing treatment and using her chance! Nastya dreams that after 10 years of suffering,
constant fear of new hemorrhage, she can finally become a normal child. Please help her with it!!!”. . Please click on Nastya’s photo to read about this remarkable girl. Does she deserve help? Of course.. . . .
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| Verene and Geroge Posavad |
Enhancing
Ukrainian lives through dentistry. Shoreview
Press dot Com. by Katherine Read. Contributing
Writer. Published: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 1:49 PM CDT. . “SHOREVIEW — They make do with rudimentary equipment: a chair, a light, an air compressor,
some sterile tools, bottled water because running water is scarce.. . “Sometimes they can do little more than pull teeth already too decayed to save. But despite limited resources,
retired dentist George Posavad and his wife, Verene, can look back over the past 16 years and see that they've made real improvements
in the smiles of Ukrainian children and in their lives.”. . Can we repair teeth? Most of us can’t and shouldn’t
try but we can help those who can and do.. . Please click on the photo to read what can be accomplished. . .
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| Flag of the USA |
"Student Organization Grows Project to Help Orphans" . "Between the ages of 15 and 18, many orphans in Ukraine fall victim to drugs, prostitution and even
suicide as they are forced to the leave the orphanage and transition into adulthood. . "But a group of University of Maryland undergraduates in the QUEST program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business is out to make a difference in
those young lives. . "By the
end of the semester they had built an organization, come up with a unique way to use photography to connect donors with orphans,
built a Web site, and started collecting money." . Please click on the flag to read more!
Link to the Shutters 4 Scholars website: Here make contact.
Link to the Quest program
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| Canadian Flag |
More Good News out of Edmonton, Canada . Sonia Sunger, ctvedmonton.ca Updated: Sun Mar. 15 2009 10:20:38 . Congratulations
to Ukraine’s friends in Edmonton – they are always doing something to help, especially the youth.
. Click on the Canadian Flag! . .
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| Christmas at Hope Orphanage |
Christmas Holiday at the Orthodox orphanage «Nadezhda» .
By Inna
Grigorjeva, translated by Inna Nigay. deti.zp.ua 2009-03-11 .
"The orphanage 'Nadezhda' was opened by efforts and prayers of Zaporozhskiy
and Melitopolsky Metropolitan Vasily. The main objective of the school is social and pedagogical rehabilitation of the children
without parental care. But even the best social pedagogical rehabilitation cannot substitute the necessary parental care,
cannot warm up their frozen hearts and sad eyes, and cannot fulfill their souls with light and joy. .
"Only life with belief can give all this to the child." . I have come to believe this to be true. Governments can not do it, at any place
and at any time. Governments evolve to take care of themselves. They can not take care of our children. . Please click on the photo for this wonderful journal and album. . .
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| George Stuart |
Bryan man spreading the sounds of joy to Ukraine's orphans . From TheEagle.com By Jim Butler March 18, 2007 . “His unlikely story starts in
2001, when Stuart accompanied his elder son, Randal, to Odessa..... .
“ ‘I ended up teaching at the orphanage every day,' Stuart said.
” . About George Stuart, Bob Hobson writes,
“all it would take is people sending him $5.00 each to help him…..apparently he has used up his savings doing
what he's doing.” .
Take a look at George's
journey with the orphans - click on his photo!
George would like to hear from you! . George Stuart
Bryan, Texas
(979) 229-4954
gstuart2001(@hotmail.com . Please click on the
photo!
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| American Ukrainian Friendship Flags |
Patricia "Sister Schubert" Barnes Awarded
Silver Medal by City of Gorlovka, Ukraine . Her work speaks for her. . Please click
on the flags. .
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| Nastya Sizonenko |
Did I not
learn from the Starfish Thrower?
. Time and Tide wait for no one. Time is running out for Nastya Sizonenko.
It was my opinion that
I was doing all that I could for those I should.
. Then once again I read the story of
the Starfish Thrower and looked at that big jar of coins I have been saving until it’s full.
. Why full I asked myself.
Act now. I must have at least $30.00 in there that I can send now and count tomorrow. Nastya’s time is not waiting for
someone to count, her tide is now very literally running out.
. So I shall act. Click on her photo
and follow the page down to the bottom and there click on “Another way of donation”.
. I trust Albert and the
people in Zaporizhzhya. I have donated before and they account for every penny and allocate exactly as I request.
. Now is the time.
. Thanks, David .
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| street concert Zaporozhye |
Street
concert in the center of Zaporozhye was the first step to Vladik's rescue . By
Irina Gavrisheva, Ирина
Гавришева Published September
22, 2008 .
.. “Last
two weeks turned Vladik's life, his parents lives and also ours ones. First it was news about high probability of leucosis,
then diagnosis verification and the recommendation of unrelated marrow bone transplantation and at last news that transplantation
must be done as soon as possible. . “We have only few months to gather the necessary sum of money. . “Few months… It is not enough…
but we have no choice. We remember Daniil Pshenichniy for whom we also had to collect money for unrelated marrow bone transplantation
in Israel. . “In his case 2 years passed from
the beginning of gathering up to the moment of transplantation! This term is huge and Vladik has no much time to wait.” . Please click on the photo to visit the people of Zaporozhye. You will see Irina in her wheel chair. Come back here
and scroll down this opening page and click on the articles by and about Irina, a remarkable lady. .
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