Hope, Opportunity for 3,200 kids in Eastern Europe

Dear Supporter,

There are times when life can be really hard. Like in the case of Anya's. Anya is raising her grandchildren on her own. 

She brings up her grandchildren, children of  her two sons. After  failed  relationships, both sons brought their children to their grandmother, as both mothers abandoned them.

Due to the fact that two of them are still small and need special care, and are often sick, she had to ask for leave from work to deal with the health of the children. One day Anya was informed that the buffet in which she works was closed and demolished in connection with repair work in the hospital where it is located.

Anya was left without work, during the quarantine period, with a cry for help to caring and kind people. Those people introduced us to Anya and her family.

Thanks to your kind donations, the family is being helped with food and cleaning products as well as legal assistance with guardianship and  benefits for children, which will ease the current difficult situation for the family.

Thank you for making our work possible.

Through our partners we support local projects in Eastern Europe.

The adversity encountered by families continues, and so we are pleased that we can offer some respite through the love of our partner.

Over the last 6 months 37 children have been supported by our partner Helping Hands. All are from families who are trying their utmost to care for their children as best they can, and to give them the opportunities that they can, but where financial difficulties limit such care.

Lutza’s and Mila’s father died leaving large debts. They have had no electricity in the house for a year and only a stove for heating a house which is in poor condition. Yet despite this the house is kept tidy whilst mum works for a small income and the girls are both very helpful and lovely. We have helped mum with a lawyer to resolve the power problem and provided material needs for the girls. They are so grateful for the kindness and feel that their adversity is being overcome whilst others are in more need than them.

Meanwhile both the mum and dad of Artyom & Fedor have died, so they now live with their grandmother, who has become sick. She is frightened that the children will be taken to an orphanage. A car accident means that Artyom needs rehabilitation twice a year and constant medications. Grandma cries when Helping Hands brings the regular support for the family.

Another mother brings up her children alone, her salary is low, they only have enough for food, they cook on the stove, during the summer they burned all the wood and during the winter they had nothing left to heat the house with. They were frozen, prepared food at their neighbours.  When we told them that we were going to help with firewood, mum started crying and couldn’t stop saying thank you to everyone for help.  

In these families mothers raise children alone, mothers practically cannot afford anything, the money that they earn goes to utility bills and food, so for them this is a huge help. When people save on everything, this is help from heaven, they say so. They thank God, thank you that you are so kind and compassionate. It means a lot to them.

Thank you for your kind support.

ChildAid

Girl Fund Campaign

This year we are participating in the Girls Fund Campaign, with the project Empowering Vulnerable Women in Eastern Europe .

On Friday 06 March 2020 the campaign starts and it is also Bonus Day. Please consider supporting us during the campaign.

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• Supporting a mother victim of abuse
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