Shade for Children General Fund

With so much of our efforts (and funding) going towards our building project, Blossom Cottage, we've been operating the rest of our work on a shoestring budget. We were fortunate, thanks to you and other donors, to have funds for our summer camps back in June and July. Funds received since then have gone primarily to our weekly orphanage visits.

There is an upcoming need related to our work of supporting adoptive and foster families. A family we know adopted a child that we've known for years. She had significant health issues, but it turns out that she had more issues than the family was aware of and more than the orphanage and social services told them about. In fact, they are preparing a lawsuit regarding the lack of disclosure.

In the meantime, their health care cost have skyrocketed. We've been told the mother is working three odd jobs and the father is working two jobs. They are in the process of gathering a list of their current and upcoming expenses so they can help their little girl. While not much compared, for example, to US healthcare prices, we expect their expenses to be in the $5000 range for treatments and procedures through the end of this year. We intend to help them with those expenses and donations to this General Fund will help us do that.

Thank you for your support,

Clinton

Greetings from Ukraine,

Just today we received a disbursement from GlobalGiving for our general fund which makes this an especially good time to thank you.

Most of the funds raised through our general fund will pay for summer camp next month. We are excited to host a very diverse group of 6-12 year old children at a mountain retreat center in the safety of the Carpathian mountains in Western Ukraine. 

We will host about 10 children from a State orphanage, we will host several children from local foster and adoptive families, we will host several internally displaced children- children in families who have relocated to Western Ukraine from war torn parts of Eastern and Southern Ukraine, and finally we will host children from a couple of partnnering churches.

Your support enables us to provide camps like this at a reduced cost for most of the children mentioned above as well as for covering the expenses for our camp staff.  Thank you.