Graduates of 2011

Help for Children also has a "Graduates Program". This program enables orphans who graduate from the orphanage to live in boarding homes and continue their education. They learn valuable life skills, maintain life long friendships, and still receive the emotional and spiritual support that Help for Children offers.

There are 13 of these orphanage graduates that would like to be a part of FOC's Graduate Program.
Natasha explains it better... I'll let her do just that.

"We had 13 new graduates, they all said they want to become part of our project. Now the main thing for me is to find finances for that work - to be able to arrange activities for them. You can understand that youth will never come again if they are bored. And they all are teen-agers that started a new adults life.

Next day we had our september meeting with the Graduates who already are in the project for couple of years. In comparison with the mentioned above graduates those are older, mature and me and Lena had a feeling that many of them are ready for life without us. It's sad from one hand, but from another - this is the goal of our work - to be their support and encouragement so that they will be ready for this life. We think we will graduate many of them this Christmas."

The above picture is of the older kids currently in the "Graduates' Program" of whom many will be graduating this December. Keep them in your prayers as they transition out of school and into the "real world".

Above them are a few pictures of the incoming students in the program. One is from Jukki and the others are from Luga. Pray for them as they too transition from life in an orphanage to life on the "outside".

If you would like to help Lena and Natasha with the "Graduates Program" and sponsor one of these incoming 13 kids, contact Ken Dockery at http://www.bigfamilyministry.org/.