Greetings! I asked friends of New Thing last week to help provide a new washing machine and a security system for the boarding school for...

Good morning. I’ve learned that the workers at Porechya, caring for 120 children with gastro-intestinal problems, are doing the laundry...

The children of Porechya, Belarus, are big drinkers, and it’s our fault :-) Enjoy the photos! Thanks for journeying with New Thing! Much...

Sometimes, love isn’t very lovely. A truckload of cargo may not look like much — but this one is 11.5 tons of love! Here are a few...

Masha was 13 when she had an accident. She was left disabled. That was 15 years ago. She’s learned to walk with a cane, but to get around...

The turmoil in Belarus has been devastating to me, and I can hardly imagine how it is for our Belarusian friends. Some who have “dachas”...

It’s been a long time, but finally, the hearing-impaired children in Vitebsk, Belarus, have received the equipment funded by generous...

The heart-rending protests in Belarus came to our neighborhood this past weekend. The yellow building in the background is where we live....

Greetings! A number of friends of New Thing have asked about the amazing, unprecedented developments in Belarus. New Thing never takes a...

Greetings! It’s a time of unprecedented events in Belarus, with widespread protests and strikes since last week’s presidential election....