Celebrating your compassion!
You’ll love this party! The perfect way to end the year! Widen your browser to enjoy the photos fully. Thanks for journeying with...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 19, 2017
- 1 min
Brimming!
I am brimming with pride and joy! Generous friends of New Thing have FULLY FUNDED the children’s ward at Shumilina Hospital in Belarus!...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Worst beds in the world?
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”),...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
Keep the children out!
Greetings from Belarus! Here are the beautiful children in the “little home” that New Thing built in Zhodino! Widen your browser to enjoy...
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Doug Brendel
- Nov 28, 2017
- 1 min
Awesome news!
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Short of meds
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Nov 6, 2017
- 2 min
For Thanksgiving … meds?
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Oct 24, 2017
- 1 min
Welcome to Planet Summer Camp!
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Oct 17, 2017
- 1 min
Where the kids don’t like me
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Oct 10, 2017
- 1 min
Favorite, favoriter, favoritest!
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Oct 5, 2017
- 1 min
A place at the table
Thank you to all who gave to provide chairs for the boarding school at Rudensk! The mentally disabled children, and the workers who are...
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Doug Brendel
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
Closing in
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Sep 28, 2017
- 1 min
Thrown-away children
The children are beautiful at Rudensk. 130 orphans with mental disabilities. Each one either abandoned or abused by their parents. They...
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Doug Brendel
- Sep 21, 2017
- 1 min
Stunned and grateful
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Aug 29, 2017
- 1 min
Happy birthday to New Thing!
Time to celebrate! I never dreamed, when New Thing was officially born 15 years ago this week, that we would have the joy of...
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Doug Brendel
- Aug 1, 2017
- 1 min
Love doing dishes?
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...
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Doug Brendel
- Jul 12, 2017
- 2 min
Celebrating!
Summer greetings! Great news: The government of Belarus bestowed a tremendous honor on our “Response of the Heart” team in Minsk,...
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Doug Brendel
- Jun 26, 2017
- 1 min
Graduation Day for our orphan friends!
Remember the orphans of the “Children’s Village” at Kobryn? The ones that friends like you provided “life starter kits” for? They’ve made...
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Doug Brendel
- Jun 6, 2017
- 1 min
Homeless, poor – but LOVED
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...
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Doug Brendel
- May 30, 2017
- 1 min
Launched with love!
Greetings from Belarus…. 10 orphans are very, very happy today! I’ve delivered the “college starter kits” provided through the generosity...
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