Someday...

Someday, when this little guy comes home from college, he’ll sleep on this sofa-bed.

In the meantime, this will be the only new sofa this orphan’s family has ever had — since the Children’s Village was established at Kobryn, Belarus, decades ago.

Last year we were able to deliver brand-new sleeper-sofas to 8 of the homes here.

Now we’re trying to catch up, with sofa-beds for the remaining 7 homes.

A beautiful Matching Challenge will match, dollar-for-dollar, any donation you make toward this campaign, up to the $7,000 total.

As I write this, 8 generous households have given a total of $1,735.97.

Only $5,264.03 to go!

If you’d like to help, I’ll be grateful for any gift you can give, large or small.

The orphans — and their devoted house-parents — will be even more so.

Thanks for journeying with New Thing!

Much love,

Doug Brendel

P.S. If you’d like to see my earlier photo report about the orphans and the sleeper-sofas, it’s here.

(Photos by our dear friend Oleg Yarovenko)