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Please join us in bringing hope to orphans in Ukraine who are graduating into a life of poverty, isolation, and despair. We need consistent financial supporters to partner with us, so that we can continue to be a family for our kids.
 

Option 1 : $25.00USD – monthly Option 2 : $50.00USD – monthly Option 3 : $75.00USD – monthly Option 4 : $100.00USD – monthly Option 5 : $150.00USD – monthly Option 6 : $250.00USD – monthly Option 7 : $500.00USD – monthly

 

The Last Bell Ceremony marks the end of the schoolyear for orphans in Ukraine. For the 15- and 16-year-old graduates of Orphanage #4 in Zhytomyr, this means the end of life in an institution. They go on to trade school for two or three years and live in large government dormitories with minimal supervision.

Many enter trade school already devastated from the rejection and abandonment they experienced growing up. At the orphanage kids often develop coping mechanisms to deaden the pain:

Success can mean many things. It’s encouraging to see that the statistics for orphans are changing with Last Bell kids, and we celebrate when one of our kids moves into independence successfully. But it’s worth sharing all kinds of stories: some in which a graduate’s future is yet uncertain; some in which a graduate has lost touch; and some in which, against all odds, a graduate says that Haven or Shelter is home, staff are family, and God is Father.