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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...
Doug Brendel
Nov 6, 20172 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Oct 24, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Oct 17, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Oct 10, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Oct 5, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Oct 1, 20171 min read


Thrown-away children
The children are beautiful at Rudensk. 130 orphans with mental disabilities. Each one either abandoned or abused by their parents. They...
Doug Brendel
Sep 28, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Sep 21, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Aug 29, 20171 min read


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...
Doug Brendel
Aug 1, 20171 min read
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