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When a Band-Aid isn't enough
Something for a headache or a scraped knee ... For years, friends of New Thing have provided all the basic medicine-cabinet meds and...
Doug Brendel
Feb 28, 20231 min read


What's wrong with you?
Greetings! Here’s a brief photo report from the boarding school at Osipovichi, in Belarus. These children have mental and/or physical...
Doug Brendel
Feb 21, 20231 min read


For Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day isn’t officially celebrated in Belarus, but the orphans at Children’s Village in Kobryn send you their love! And so do...
Doug Brendel
Feb 14, 20231 min read


Stuff? Not entirely
On a recent wintry day in Minsk, our “Response of the Heart” team took delivery of humanitarian aid from Germany and quickly shared it...
Doug Brendel
Feb 7, 20231 min read


Sweet dreams...
It’s hard to be homeless, anywhere. But for a few people living with homelessness in the capital of Belarus, you just made it a little...
Doug Brendel
Jan 30, 20231 min read


Too late for Christmas?
I think you’ll like this! Here are a few fun Christmas photos from the Children’s Village orphanage in Belarus! Thanks for journeying...
Doug Brendel
Jan 24, 20231 min read


How love works
It was exactly 5 years ago that Kristina visited Old Borisov, a town in the north of Belarus with a boarding school for children at risk...
Doug Brendel
Jan 17, 20231 min read


For peace
A New Year. We can’t know what lies ahead, for ourselves or for the people of Belarus. All we can do is keep caring for those who need...
Doug Brendel
Jan 3, 20231 min read


For every one of them...
For every orphan in Belarus every foster family every homeless person every child or adult with a disability every patient, young or old,...
Doug Brendel
Dec 27, 20221 min read


Sticking with it
In a shelter for abused and abandoned children, you never want to see the same child twice. But in the shelter at Zhodino, where New...
Doug Brendel
Dec 20, 20221 min read
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