Shade for Children General Fund

Greetings from Ukraine.

The purpose of the Shade for Children General Fund campaign is to generate funds for ongoing ministry. Fortunately, the orphanages have been open to us throughout the summer and into mid-Autumn which means our teams have made visits on a weekly basis. The general fund campaign reimburses volunteers for travel and supply expenses. An example of supply expenses includes providing cakes and party favors for birthday parties in the orphanages, normally on a monthly basis.

General funds also cover transportation costs and humanitarian aid for monthly visits with families-in-crises. We are working with two foster families (one with 8 foster children, and the other with five foster children), and with two other families, one that was recently reunified (that is, their child returned home from an orphanage), and another family with one child in an orphanage and three home. We're hoping the institutionalized child will return home soon.

We also covered expenses for a child from another family at risk to attend a rehabilitation camp near Odessa. The child was referred to us by Uzhhorod Social Services.

Thank you for monthly and one-time gifts that help us advocate for family preservation and reunification, domestic adoption and foster care, and building social and relational safety nets for orphaned and vulnerable children.

Thanks to your continued donations to our General Fund, we are not soliciting additional funding for summer camps this year. What we've raised through our general fund account is adequate for the one week of camp we will host in July AND for sponsoring 12 children from a nearby orphanage at another camp in July. 

Our lone summer camp next month will be held in a new location for us, in picturesque Lumshory, in the mountains about an hour north of Uzhhorod. We are actually renting two camp bases because neither alone is big enough. One base is very modern with a really nice swimming pool. We will eat there, swim of course, and probably have our small group meetings and craft classes at that site. Only a few families will stay at that site. The second site, just up the road, is an older camp and that's where most of the children will stay along with their leaders. The second site features a large soccer field and woods for big outdoor games.

We will be hosting the largest number of foster kids/families that we've ever hosted and there is a possibility that a couple children from one of the orphanages will be able to join us as well.

We're excited for camp and we can't thank you enough because your donations this year make it possible.

Blessings!

Clinton