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Global Activism: Supporting Orphans in Russia and Africa

It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.

According to the Russian Ministry of Education, there are 700,000 orphans living in Russia.

Children’s HopeChest is an organization that reaches out to these orphans through sponsorships and health and life skills programs.

Jenya Haps is a Co-founder and Regional Development Manager of Children’s HopeChest.

The work of Children’s HopeChest was suggested by Fyodor Sakhnovski. Fyodor is Jenya Haps' son and an intern on Worldview.

And Jenya told Jerome how the group got started…

Nelson Ojowi, Migori // Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 4:49 AM

The program officer, Glory to God who has led us to your wonderful website as we were doing some surfing. We praise God for He has led us to exactly what we dearly long for. The well crafted and massage in your website has motivated us to write and send this mail to your very respected office with much honor requesting you to help us reach our vision of assisting the needy, Orphans, Widows, Widowers, abandoned and disable children here in Kenya. Our group is termed as the Kenya Nestle for Orphans and Widows support group. This is a Christian based organization. It was established and registered as the community Development group, but as we write to you we’re planning to register it as the NGO HERE IN Kenya. This organization is also taking care of the victims of HIV/AIDS. WE CURRENTLY HAVE 150 ORPHANS IN THE ORPHANS SCHOOL.THESE ORPHANS ARE TAKEN CARE OF THROUGH THE HOME BASED CARE PROGRAM. The group’s office bearers are Widows and widowers. These needy persons therefore run it. Although we’ll be much grateful if you could accept to give us some grants, but what dearly needs some one or some people who could come and teach the health and social workers, giving them the technical advice and training especially in HIV/AIDS counseling. We would also appreciate if the team should comprise of the spiritual teachers as well. There are thousands of valiant individuals at the grassroots level who are devoting their lives to caring for these children in thoughtful, effective and innovative ways. Oftentimes, they simply lack sufficient resources to sustain and grow their efforts as well us the technical knowledge. Unfortunately, they also often miss the attention of outside donors because of their lack of visibility. WE'RE READY TO GIVE YOU FURTHER DETAILS CONCERNING THIS GROUP and our church.The extracts from your website pasted here below really motivated us to pray for God to work ways that you accept our humble plea. May God bless you as we remain longing for a positive response from you. Yours faithfully, Alice Nelson. Groups coordinator.

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