A quick update on the children with disabilities and their need for medicine-cabinet meds and supplies: 1. The Matching Challenge expires in 13 days — Thanksgiving Day.  2. IF we make the $3250 goal, the Challenge will double every donation. 3. Reaching the Challenge goal, we’ll be able to provide a year’s worth of meds and supplies for the children at Osipovichi: aspirin , Bandaids , all the basics for all 80 children . (It’s only 23¢ a day but with 80 kids it adds up.) 

You and I hear it, and maybe say it, every year: “Count your blessings.”  We set aside a day for it. Thanksgiving: a uniquely American holiday. Friends of New Thing have an unusual count-your-blessings tradition: Every year at Thanksgiving time, we provide a year’s worth of the ordinary medicine-cabinet meds and supplies needed to care for 80 children with disabilities. They live in a boarding school in Osipovichi, Belarus, many abandoned at birth because of their conditions.

Every year at Thanksgiving time, friends of New Thing renew a heartwarming decade-long tradition: Providing a year’s worth of medicine-cabinet meds and supplies for some 80 children at Osipovichi, Belarus. These kids have physical and mental disabilities, but their boarding-school caregivers give them absolutely the best care possible. And the workers are so grateful that the Americans remember them every year ... so when a child needs an aspirin or a bandaid, they don’t have

He’s working on something. But he pauses and looks over his shoulder. Needing help? Waiting for advice? Wary of a scolding? Hoping for approval? Or maybe just annoyed by an interruption — Hey, tryin’ to work here! The fact that he’s in school, and healthy, well fed, and wearing clean clothes, is enough to know. He’s safe and loved in the Belarusian town of Rudensk, 30 miles southeast of Minsk, in a boarding school for children who have lost their parents. Here, a little guy —

Some grateful families! ... Here’s  a very brief photo report  from Belarus. Thanks for journeying with New Thing! Much love, Doug Brendel

Here’s  a brief photo report from Belarus . Thanks for journeying with New Thing! Much love, Doug Brendel (Photos by Oleg Yarovenko)

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Joy at the orphanage! Here’s a  very brief, fun photo report  from Belarus. Thanks for journeying with New Thing! Much love, Doug Brendel...

The graduating orphans of Kobryn, Belarus, are off and running.... Well, not quite running, because their LIFE STARTER KITS are so...