Project Report
| May 28, 2024
Spring 2024 Report
By Clinton White | Project Leader
Greetings from Ukraine,
Just today we received a disbursement from GlobalGiving for our general fund which makes this an especially good time to thank you.
Most of the funds raised through our general fund will pay for summer camp next month. We are excited to host a very diverse group of 6-12 year old children at a mountain retreat center in the safety of the Carpathian mountains in Western Ukraine.
We will host about 10 children from a State orphanage, we will host several children from local foster and adoptive families, we will host several internally displaced children- children in families who have relocated to Western Ukraine from war torn parts of Eastern and Southern Ukraine, and finally we will host children from a couple of partnnering churches.
Your support enables us to provide camps like this at a reduced cost for most of the children mentioned above as well as for covering the expenses for our camp staff. Thank you.
Jan 29, 2024
Winter 24 Update
By Clinton White | Project Leader
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Shade for Children kicked off the New Year with a rush of activity and spending. Within the first few days of the year we co-sponsored remodeling and furnishing of a room at the regional toddler's orphanage. After years of lobbying, we finally received a room of our own where we can visit with children on regular basis to provide attention, play, and therapy. The room will also be utilized by the orphanage as a space for adoption and foster care candidates can spend time with children before they can go home.
We also purchased special orthopedic shoes for special needs toddler.
Most of our attention is directed towards Blossom Cottage- a small group home we building in Western Ukraine, but we are obviously still engaged in regular orphanage visits and supporting families.
Thank you for your contributions to Shade for Children's General Fund!
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New Heater and AC Unit
Sep 29, 2023
Autumn 2023 Report
By Clinton White | Project Leader
We're thankful for continued support. Probably the most significant expenditure over the past three months was for the repatriation of nine Ukrainian children who were in Italy since shortly after the war began.
It's a long story. Many people are familiar with Russia's illegal abduction of multitudes of Ukrainian children from occupied areas in Eastern and Southern Ukraine. Less known is the fate of hundreds of Ukrainian children in the EU. Days after the war started many orphaned and vulnerable children were sent to various EU countries including about 60 children from an orphanage that we work with in our region. An Orphan Hosting program took the children for what was supposed to be an extened hosting situation but once the children were there some district judges in Italy ruled that their assylum laws for unaccompanied minors applied to them and they were either given the choice to stay in Italy, or in most cases, their Italian guardians were given the choice to keep them in Italy. In other cases, the judges ruled that the children COULD NOT return to Ukraine while a state of war or martial law existed.
It's not that we're opposed to the children living in safety; we're opposed of what appears to be something akin to human trafficking. The Italian judges, in our opinion, have no right to adjudicate the fate of Ukrainian children, some of whom have family in Ukraine and are not available for international adoption even if there weren't a moratorium on those adoptions right now.
So, long story short, nine of the local children were allowed to return to Ukraine (to a safe area) and Shade for Children funded their repatriation. At least 20 children still remain in Italy and we might be called upon to help them before the end of the year.