For Thanksgiving ... a Tylenol?

Kid scrapes a knee? You know where the bandages are.

Headache? Head for the medicine cabinet.

But what if your medicine cabinet is empty?

For 80+ children with physical and mental disabilities in Osipovichi, that’s how it used to be.

Workers love the kids at the boarding school, but they needed ordinary medicine-cabinet meds and supplies — aspirin, cough syrup, cotton swabs, disinfectants, ointments, everything.

So more than a decade ago, friends of New Thing began a Thanksgiving tradition:

Provide a full year’s worth of meds and supplies for the children with disabilities.

It isn’t a Belarusian holiday, but every year at Thanksgiving, these workers are so thankful!

This year, a couple dear friends who love the children have offered us a terrific Matching Challenge:

• If our New Thing family will donate a total of $3,250 by Thanksgiving Day, they’ll match it dollar-for-dollar to meet the entire $6,500 need.

This means any gift you give today will be doubled. Your love will go twice as far.

Some of the children at this boarding school, now in their teens, have never taken an ibuprofen that wasn’t provided by friends of New Thing.

I hope you can be part of our Thanksgiving tradition this year.

Only 20 days till the Matching Challenge deadline — so please let me hear from you ASAP.

Thanks for journeying with New Thing!

Much love,

Doug Brendel

(Photos by Oleg Yarovenko)