Summer in Russia:
After all the school exams are done, children with families leave the city for camps, travel with parents to the sea, and visit grandmas in the country away from the smoke polluted air of the big city. They have other friends to play with during the summer and different surroundings. That is how life goes for most Russian families. But it is different for the children we support. There are no doting grandparents or family trips. They are orphans. The state allows them to attend one camp during the summer months. A maximum of 21 days away from the orphanage or internat where they live and spend the entire year. The rest of the summer months are spent hanging out on the streets or doing nothing all day long.
That is where you come in.
Your funds are helping to purchase outdoor play equipment and toys for the activity rooms. With your help you are sending children from Jukki orphanage and the Family Center to the Western Ukraine (Uzhgorod) to a Christian Summer Camp. Your help supported children from Luga to go to St. Petersburg and see a movie and have Mc Donald's. Financial support has helped move two young mothers and their children into a summer home in Bolshevo where they will have a change of scenery and be taught how to take care of their new little ones. There will be a mother's camp in Bolshevo in July and lots of other activities are planned for the children of the orphanages as well as the Family Center. Pictures to come!
Please keep these orphans in your thoughts and prayers as you travel and spend time with your loved ones. Continue to support Big Family in their efforts to touch the lives of these kids and help them to have a memorable summer.
For more information on how you can get involved visit www.BigFamilyMinistry.Org.
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