You’ll love this party! The perfect way to end the year! Widen your browser to enjoy the photos fully. Thanks for journeying with NewThing.net in 2017! Much ...

I am brimming with pride and joy! Generous friends of New Thing have FULLY FUNDED the children’s ward at Shumilina Hospital in Belarus! Every child will have...

I’ve never seen such awful beds, in any children’s institution in Belarus, as I saw in the old hospital at Shumilina (“shoe ME lean uh”), about 25 miles from...

Greetings from Belarus! Here are the beautiful children in the “little home” that New Thing built in Zhodino! Widen your browser to enjoy the photos fully. T...

Greetings from Karl Marx Street! I am thrilled to report that a total of 30 friends gave to provide basic meds for the disabled children at Osipovichi for th...

Hi again! I’m grateful for the 7 friends who have donated a total of $1,025 toward medicines and other basics for the disabled children at Osipovichi in Bela...

What will we do for Thanksgiving? Same question, every year. What for dinner? Who’ll be at the table? But for me, Thanksgiving isn’t just about food. It’s ab...

Your love is making its mark! Check out these photos from a summer camp for the “children of Chernobyl.” Widen your browser for enjoy the photos fully. Thank...

Actually, the big kids were OK with me. It was the little kids who were a bit freaked out by the strange American in the beard. Some cool photos from New Thi...

Hi again! I think you’re going to love meeting the beautiful children from Osipovichi. (That’s oh-see-POE-vee-chee, if you want to practice your Russian.) Ch...

Thank you to all who gave to provide chairs for the boarding school at Rudensk! The mentally disabled children, and the workers who are caring for them, will...

We’re closing in on our goal of providing 30 new chairs for the children’s programs. Giving this gift will really mean a lot to the mentally disabled orphans...

The children are beautiful at Rudensk. 130 orphans with mental disabilities. Each one either abandoned or abused by their parents. They live at the Rudensk b...

I was stunned to receive a message from the chargé d’affaires for the Republic of Belarus in Washington D.C. (standing in for the Belarusian Ambassador to th...

Time to celebrate! I never dreamed, when New Thing was officially born 15 years ago this week, that we would have the joy of accomplishing so much among peop...

Greetings to all who follow or support New Thing! You just made some kitchen workers SO HAPPY in the former USSR! Here are a few photos to make you smile! Th...

Summer greetings! Great news: The government of Belarus bestowed a tremendous honor on our “Response of the Heart” team in Minsk, inviting “The Great Kozovay...

Remember the orphans of the “Children’s Village” at Kobryn? The ones that friends like you provided “life starter kits” for? They’ve made it through graduati...

I’m smiling! I’ve been to our soup kitchen for the homeless and poor, in Minsk. Here are a few photos. They please me very much. (Widen your browser to enjoy...

Greetings from Belarus…. 10 orphans are very, very happy today! I’ve delivered the “college starter kits” provided through the generosity of friends like you...