tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59054155900694849242024-03-05T04:57:09.892-08:00The trade school project- a birds' eye viewThis is just news and views of our project here in the village working with aged out orphans teaching dairy farmingTeresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-31810389477106385622022-06-10T05:27:00.002-07:002022-06-10T05:27:41.091-07:00Really looking from far away<p> We get constant updates on the farm while we are in Canada. Max and Garry often talk about crops and other things. We get updates about students from Victor, who is in Canada but is our link to most of the staff, and some from Oleg as photos on Facebook or sent by his wife Elena. She knows some English. Life is going pretty much normally in the village right now, it's relatively safe in our village.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdggdYVq3Q5LdzUGt0dYwaA_M3uQcx_m5jei8Ab9KhMXy5FqImbC1sD19WgWT_c805fmxwujeR-uGcMiyONXyP_gmcuTw_XR026MEq-0MbD1lM8nmCOUYT3-PwG86yCCivMFJ0FRb9hH1gYDd8rFwXGO06YwQS7rhnacbYA077GEAxD7AOSJOff6KJGQ/s2048/278474917_1007474720175980_5686938523922214399_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdggdYVq3Q5LdzUGt0dYwaA_M3uQcx_m5jei8Ab9KhMXy5FqImbC1sD19WgWT_c805fmxwujeR-uGcMiyONXyP_gmcuTw_XR026MEq-0MbD1lM8nmCOUYT3-PwG86yCCivMFJ0FRb9hH1gYDd8rFwXGO06YwQS7rhnacbYA077GEAxD7AOSJOff6KJGQ/s320/278474917_1007474720175980_5686938523922214399_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSHzNT-_Vybc0hqmMUzD7N9_IJVflfwnBaCQAua6bm_NDfzGEMtBWanyeHZ1r00Qbj8m3momgQZVDcuYM9hX5LDdZ3oP4un3-MtEYeSGWY4I_3tz5q4pBnGyOwaCKkuNgdq7Oijjw9i_8bbmgndA7r2PlFaAnH5ZzwsCpNF7N10R2uUB-vzyx-EQ44Q/s1080/285711334_1170678430396336_4174775971529051237_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSHzNT-_Vybc0hqmMUzD7N9_IJVflfwnBaCQAua6bm_NDfzGEMtBWanyeHZ1r00Qbj8m3momgQZVDcuYM9hX5LDdZ3oP4un3-MtEYeSGWY4I_3tz5q4pBnGyOwaCKkuNgdq7Oijjw9i_8bbmgndA7r2PlFaAnH5ZzwsCpNF7N10R2uUB-vzyx-EQ44Q/w400-h400/285711334_1170678430396336_4174775971529051237_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The corn and sunflowers are about a foot tall now, the irrigation water lines are in place for the corn. The wheat looks okay, there's a good amount of hay in the shed from first cut and second cut will be soon.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQQbWhBUhgc_AeIzMRLsQF76RxRheujQKE0PCAFIMYhZvNvzw6gi6UaGOthbsK95_VpJbwD1tlBrBEGWjG3fLT8aglSlSMIbydWl4xVn-YjxNzfm1QXxmK8lZ2llJjpv5lftT8Jx2e5qwohSt6YyLyV20BNAPPcSGa_GJh0l3QQ4e2ExoWGBBjNEq4A/s2048/285852968_404282124959337_7607247543989271669_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQQbWhBUhgc_AeIzMRLsQF76RxRheujQKE0PCAFIMYhZvNvzw6gi6UaGOthbsK95_VpJbwD1tlBrBEGWjG3fLT8aglSlSMIbydWl4xVn-YjxNzfm1QXxmK8lZ2llJjpv5lftT8Jx2e5qwohSt6YyLyV20BNAPPcSGa_GJh0l3QQ4e2ExoWGBBjNEq4A/s320/285852968_404282124959337_7607247543989271669_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAv3wdXNc0NJkAkMMCJEx0Qa98wfNHAOxNycD-oqB8vMVK2wvHK0G_y6rQ7pvlcNsFK0_Kibk5d41DslAVF2ZsqwG1LtnzIzxZoZ2-3_yk3Nipe2lTrGMH_5fEj_mYhS21R5eC9KNHm_n8Vr6x-zCk_YNNqhTQ02hSOMqglSYF4U8j4WgQaqtJP3sVTA/s2048/286071324_1717884361891015_9128300341842260469_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAv3wdXNc0NJkAkMMCJEx0Qa98wfNHAOxNycD-oqB8vMVK2wvHK0G_y6rQ7pvlcNsFK0_Kibk5d41DslAVF2ZsqwG1LtnzIzxZoZ2-3_yk3Nipe2lTrGMH_5fEj_mYhS21R5eC9KNHm_n8Vr6x-zCk_YNNqhTQ02hSOMqglSYF4U8j4WgQaqtJP3sVTA/w300-h400/286071324_1717884361891015_9128300341842260469_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfe_i5ua63qAMd_vXiiMWPODvLQppNFhg2u3Gz0gU7aTFQPob0hc4XU6qW-G7gKzw8K7Y84M5EdE-GhGxoaqrbMUXjb7Iiwcp_oBtWO9B2oWIWKXK7oNPfcXVPElIWScY24JbQ3qmh4qlc_e36e8uwAWETXq0qt_EKJaHUYTGsp5sIEQNvTU0PoO9T4w/s2048/286123101_1741150946227896_1311148181280942313_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfe_i5ua63qAMd_vXiiMWPODvLQppNFhg2u3Gz0gU7aTFQPob0hc4XU6qW-G7gKzw8K7Y84M5EdE-GhGxoaqrbMUXjb7Iiwcp_oBtWO9B2oWIWKXK7oNPfcXVPElIWScY24JbQ3qmh4qlc_e36e8uwAWETXq0qt_EKJaHUYTGsp5sIEQNvTU0PoO9T4w/s320/286123101_1741150946227896_1311148181280942313_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />The cheese house is being used to make a bit of extra milk into soft cheeses. I think for eating, because they have been able to keep selling milk. Here's a few photos from Elena, you can see Leila in her new glasses helping. <p></p><p><br /></p>Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-51201658914243924792021-12-27T12:52:00.000-08:002021-12-27T12:52:31.491-08:00Christmas and New things<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhitaYAGm9qLoiuBxRlcVi2GaeBCUlqa0QtkoYpY1GE0uVr7h2Kt0QoxBmZux_ObC673EuOjt2TQ1C4poMx3r2jG2FH1ud1Icu0CliwweJMa9PKCbk5PuX8fmEQHwWRFtp1VQIj_2RrETsWsOeKEXLMfPuthfK4fPB0LeKMEHIZMcm2Ly1sG1wgjGtP-w=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhitaYAGm9qLoiuBxRlcVi2GaeBCUlqa0QtkoYpY1GE0uVr7h2Kt0QoxBmZux_ObC673EuOjt2TQ1C4poMx3r2jG2FH1ud1Icu0CliwweJMa9PKCbk5PuX8fmEQHwWRFtp1VQIj_2RrETsWsOeKEXLMfPuthfK4fPB0LeKMEHIZMcm2Ly1sG1wgjGtP-w=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br />This summer a new couple joined the Hope for Each team. Oleg is Ukrainian, Lena's from Siberia and in August they moved into what was the Crawford house in the village with their two preschool aged sons and her father. They had already spent some time in the village and in September took over student affairs like scheduling, discipline and salaries.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5LGtqRp8lBslLUJyY2wDlYKIqVpYdsByEiuAmKnjVxnmEg2kdxmIHvKjjrtTs94dGAhBiqJmSkfR3OtreHgOaaqpjWJoAFkMXie2hd3pvCV5toQlJ3pJ5pHcv49CtG1N7uvOgEwKpo4U1f5n3vWrjB5W_kbzppJkWrCp7Cdr_ZmcyQOXTIosMgKbsNg=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5LGtqRp8lBslLUJyY2wDlYKIqVpYdsByEiuAmKnjVxnmEg2kdxmIHvKjjrtTs94dGAhBiqJmSkfR3OtreHgOaaqpjWJoAFkMXie2hd3pvCV5toQlJ3pJ5pHcv49CtG1N7uvOgEwKpo4U1f5n3vWrjB5W_kbzppJkWrCp7Cdr_ZmcyQOXTIosMgKbsNg=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>There's a few changes like a noon time dinner for the students on weekdays, with two of the students as the main cooks, Kolya and Julia.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB5avuyiX_Lr4ruwQHjiJPiNcfASaRRZg9BxEWRNeD8ECm5NznzOdqQN8MS-hxsQQLgd4f8KTB7MMKqs32A2jT47Q0MgsC0ogBToWe-b7qlUoD1J11rG3Hu-jnA6hqwqonNp7aos_xJKif-MgFWyMvvAgKirwuEwqFmn5ErTY4w0fjCk_2lr40zTWhYw=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB5avuyiX_Lr4ruwQHjiJPiNcfASaRRZg9BxEWRNeD8ECm5NznzOdqQN8MS-hxsQQLgd4f8KTB7MMKqs32A2jT47Q0MgsC0ogBToWe-b7qlUoD1J11rG3Hu-jnA6hqwqonNp7aos_xJKif-MgFWyMvvAgKirwuEwqFmn5ErTY4w0fjCk_2lr40zTWhYw=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soup's on</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCAfs2IFxnHH49abC_AKwzbiWDZRTtwaAG8378-ubV251TbR5uKgwxXqtQFkPIeIKsfxP_gaKF_bNJqon97a4Vodeg5ZMN_ExZ2vmuMh-z5uB05sIZsfE0XI5I1hbFd6lIsN2lDGeiJpoYuEiuc-DIgRlT2bo4Sk331ig9or16lcy3n_tFcWJJoH5Amw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCAfs2IFxnHH49abC_AKwzbiWDZRTtwaAG8378-ubV251TbR5uKgwxXqtQFkPIeIKsfxP_gaKF_bNJqon97a4Vodeg5ZMN_ExZ2vmuMh-z5uB05sIZsfE0XI5I1hbFd6lIsN2lDGeiJpoYuEiuc-DIgRlT2bo4Sk331ig9or16lcy3n_tFcWJJoH5Amw=s320" width="320" /></a></div>It was a great crop year this year, with enough money made for running the school, planting next year's crops, and building a second storage shed for grain and purchasing a new tractor. The chance of that much timely rain next year is about nil, and it was so dry in the fall the winter wheat barely started growing by November, but we didn't have to buy irrigation water all summer for the corn and hay crops.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrbsNR6d6VrGWy24FESWKckBAnWh0BMa76kpCzKPM3OVPFy5M1y_WF7cpJXENVFatNR4re2g84fa0USp_fHJJ3HwoNu-OCFAZHHO6ZMtRrmlbVUb2vpM5BT_vxXgkfy8_iDeByxFPeQj2y9kG3FhmQDnv970zyEUcn1pGiz9zE598_ABAXV7A24p98JQ=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrbsNR6d6VrGWy24FESWKckBAnWh0BMa76kpCzKPM3OVPFy5M1y_WF7cpJXENVFatNR4re2g84fa0USp_fHJJ3HwoNu-OCFAZHHO6ZMtRrmlbVUb2vpM5BT_vxXgkfy8_iDeByxFPeQj2y9kG3FhmQDnv970zyEUcn1pGiz9zE598_ABAXV7A24p98JQ=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRNKYK4wDeZ9TBGQQTx_bGJKr7vhjlEQBy_tnaHLS1Mlg1Fp2fOnIOy2HDs-zYNpRHbSyA9ILrRsr5C1MjdY12qe7Q2g62GhGb__omIg0B2yS5gkBpuRQTIYb6BAHMVf9amhWAS_A-p8Tk6vciiYr01BuhKXyspu9TApV0OeMym7s8u5HmPhlDPnyUyQ=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRNKYK4wDeZ9TBGQQTx_bGJKr7vhjlEQBy_tnaHLS1Mlg1Fp2fOnIOy2HDs-zYNpRHbSyA9ILrRsr5C1MjdY12qe7Q2g62GhGb__omIg0B2yS5gkBpuRQTIYb6BAHMVf9amhWAS_A-p8Tk6vciiYr01BuhKXyspu9TApV0OeMym7s8u5HmPhlDPnyUyQ=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHoMFRvwODpcJmw_ReAEFXfdwlB888CeSidYwi6lqYHhhvp0oBJ-1sJ9VOzBkn4DQ_-nmboXoSnew9oig-FEEfF5UspcJKRIrORUKVOxSUWEHl7xfqyu2-te4PaM0F7y9JJWG1IwmRbKnKzB_IQStcPE1l2GhcX31twlhoojx8Ng6IScActz9Bkn3Xxg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHoMFRvwODpcJmw_ReAEFXfdwlB888CeSidYwi6lqYHhhvp0oBJ-1sJ9VOzBkn4DQ_-nmboXoSnew9oig-FEEfF5UspcJKRIrORUKVOxSUWEHl7xfqyu2-te4PaM0F7y9JJWG1IwmRbKnKzB_IQStcPE1l2GhcX31twlhoojx8Ng6IScActz9Bkn3Xxg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipwtxw6LFFOZae_v9fLLsnZ7GkqB7lr_iq20BXHsdZie5soNVkX-FMutJRN1V1a2gA3U5BSfc7GIzQWgE0xslNN65R7PUS8K-qE6jnstl3GGvWWAvRhxs13wBW_AfjP9d-L0Iwp0ewoaBGJiapp6h1BKyHqfDAELhpWOaO9YL89qgCq65I0xb3rC30Sg=s750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipwtxw6LFFOZae_v9fLLsnZ7GkqB7lr_iq20BXHsdZie5soNVkX-FMutJRN1V1a2gA3U5BSfc7GIzQWgE0xslNN65R7PUS8K-qE6jnstl3GGvWWAvRhxs13wBW_AfjP9d-L0Iwp0ewoaBGJiapp6h1BKyHqfDAELhpWOaO9YL89qgCq65I0xb3rC30Sg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb-IKWNUzmWzaD7kayl9yAjYzTkSSa7ODs6Tpc5nXskHmmBE5bUnVASbFDFgXyGx30JU1aNBW9INcyXv_nFmlyaGiNAW_EjhqbF_JOWjJ62U23fZi7b-HSyeo2JEnnQWFPHpenOhzH7cfSI8XOZFXdX_MxEBfHF6liIqMzkvSQpLWwv13BsYLqPNjhfg=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb-IKWNUzmWzaD7kayl9yAjYzTkSSa7ODs6Tpc5nXskHmmBE5bUnVASbFDFgXyGx30JU1aNBW9INcyXv_nFmlyaGiNAW_EjhqbF_JOWjJ62U23fZi7b-HSyeo2JEnnQWFPHpenOhzH7cfSI8XOZFXdX_MxEBfHF6liIqMzkvSQpLWwv13BsYLqPNjhfg=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-55329869003532284602021-04-01T07:45:00.000-07:002021-04-01T07:45:26.880-07:00Update<p> It's been almost two years since I updated this, we are not so much a bird's eye as an everyday view of the project, so I just post on moo-oosings! However, there have been changes since that last post. The Crawfords returned to Canada last April due to Scott's health issues that cleared up when they got home. It was at the begining of the pandemic, they were able to return for a few weeks in July to pack up. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RSAbhWLHvUEfsGZj95tIX5kxSmJSDkFg_U6d99h4xu5-ii5hx1Lxc-NReNg2cUiJ1Uh30iU8xz-g8F-Ib1YtyA4HjLRLdo0gWyZW76HHjStf4vx7yjJn81FkHfROWHXTQtySWPOrVaQH/s960/150814087_10225269292383025_6793525475373166326_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RSAbhWLHvUEfsGZj95tIX5kxSmJSDkFg_U6d99h4xu5-ii5hx1Lxc-NReNg2cUiJ1Uh30iU8xz-g8F-Ib1YtyA4HjLRLdo0gWyZW76HHjStf4vx7yjJn81FkHfROWHXTQtySWPOrVaQH/w300-h400/150814087_10225269292383025_6793525475373166326_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1N-KolGR9Jm1Wi3dE0fo32-KIJVlRHZom1mTLQMv9nSNJ-x7g-opTnF0zN0fGRPa9rGkSp5w5t6Z33QCAod-yjG2MrFIS1EpFC3GLk-YDhgdj4eLUqZDEJ7SP2dbKEoHvPHhSVmCD-Oq/s960/165215367_10225568460222034_5458662398757896390_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1N-KolGR9Jm1Wi3dE0fo32-KIJVlRHZom1mTLQMv9nSNJ-x7g-opTnF0zN0fGRPa9rGkSp5w5t6Z33QCAod-yjG2MrFIS1EpFC3GLk-YDhgdj4eLUqZDEJ7SP2dbKEoHvPHhSVmCD-Oq/s320/165215367_10225568460222034_5458662398757896390_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We moved into the house leaving the three girls in the other house, plus Angelina, the baby Valentina had last May. Last spring we built a house that Kolya and Oksana and baby Matthew moved into, but over the winter she was able to get a house of their own in the village from a government program (there was always supposed to be free houses for orphans but we had never met one that got one). Nikolai, Alona and little Danil have moved into that house on our other side. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-j3A-03wKCve0Bunx8Xzcw2gR2cdxHw5-2PtpdYVmkrbNr8jQ2S2vCrGnjtnhRUDKQAFHTJ8PxMYRRNLl2LJm4Ak5esArQo9tCtTuOOSyb9SN2k1kzz5zNZ9MhE_hQj8-8He5T8GUk6xq/s1440/166964886_2765339913796676_5181615398386438151_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-j3A-03wKCve0Bunx8Xzcw2gR2cdxHw5-2PtpdYVmkrbNr8jQ2S2vCrGnjtnhRUDKQAFHTJ8PxMYRRNLl2LJm4Ak5esArQo9tCtTuOOSyb9SN2k1kzz5zNZ9MhE_hQj8-8He5T8GUk6xq/w400-h300/166964886_2765339913796676_5181615398386438151_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>We still do work study at the farm and Larissa, at left in photo above, comes from Zaporosia to teach an ethics class twice a week, and there's a weekly cooking (and eating) class too.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujPu8797Ks2LFq7pOKZu30zSvULE5qA2-GKXiQBdG2LzFoy5ka84IOuHaKG7ej-nWuAm70a9yycudAEGl4sFwH403fTELYwGmjzzMAVL-9pUTMJjuq-iCMKw6UrSQPkbUBVS7hlWwLmy3/s960/152087516_2520244068280119_3623343292589105773_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujPu8797Ks2LFq7pOKZu30zSvULE5qA2-GKXiQBdG2LzFoy5ka84IOuHaKG7ej-nWuAm70a9yycudAEGl4sFwH403fTELYwGmjzzMAVL-9pUTMJjuq-iCMKw6UrSQPkbUBVS7hlWwLmy3/s320/152087516_2520244068280119_3623343292589105773_n.jpg" /></a></p><p>Many of our other long time students are living in what was the new house, married couple Julia and Dima are in the group home parent side of the house, three older guys, Sasha B, twins Misha and Vasa and one guy who arrived in the fall are there. There are three more guys in the two apartments, and one guy that came recently at the boys house, with maybe more guys on the way, although none have come yet. It seems we often hear about possible students coming to the farm, but then they find work in the city.</p><p>The farm is able to support improvements and the program now, for the last two years even milk is a good profit business, along with selling grain with don't need for feeding the cows. We grow winter wheat, corn, alfalfa and sunflowers. Corn and some alfalfa is irrigated. </p>Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-10902596806009295342019-04-17T14:32:00.000-07:002019-04-17T14:32:51.581-07:00Students <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Right now we have more grads than new students. Some students come, some go, some come back and leave for various reasons. Some just come back for a visit. Some may never leave, either because they turn into really good workers or because they really can't cope on their own.<br />
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New students, since the beginning of 2019, we have had two, no four, previous students return, three have left again, two we asked to leave, one took off, and one guy is still here. We have also had a new young lady, Inna since January. She's living in our house (Garry and Teresa) with Leila and Valentina. We still have not been able to replace Luda as girls group home supervisor. Inna was able to quit smoking about a month ago, and attends church with us and the other girls. They went to a youth conference in Zaporosia with Nelly and Sasha Borchuk this past Saturday. <br />
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Kolya and Oksana, who were married in December 2017 are expecting a baby boy this summer. Kolya has become an official worker on the farm and supervisor for milking when Yana is gone. Oksana's still milking cows like the other girls. </div>
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Oksana's sister Vika is working with another former student, Karina, as a cleaner at a mall in Dnepro. They have been working for about a month now. Before that Vika was milking cows and living at our house. </div>
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Julia and Dima, who were married last year in March during their year away, returned in the fall. Julia milked and Dima was night guard. However, about two weeks ago, they moved to the city. Julia also got a job cleaning at the mall, hopefully Dima can get a job also. His disability payments don't cover the pain meds he's on for Muscular Dystrophy. </div>
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New old student- Vasili or Vasa, one of Kolya Mazhara's younger brothers is back and doing pretty well. He and Sasha live in what we still call the new house with Kolya and Oksana living in the group home supervisor side. </div>
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We have a couple other guys who came at the beginning of the school year who are at Vova's group home, Tolik and Stas, who will hopefully finish the year. They are up and down on school and work. </div>
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Nikolai and Alona and baby Danil are in the front apartment by the classroom. Nikolai has turned into a steady guy, working hard and doing a lot of the baby care, too. Alona has gone back to milking cows, morning milking when Nikolai can watch the baby. </div>
Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-3304824564039465072019-04-17T13:29:00.000-07:002019-04-17T13:29:12.842-07:00Catching up Wow, I did not realize that I hadn't written a blog post here for almost a year. I hope you have been keeping up with us on the other blog or Hope for Each's Facebook page!<br />
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Let's do a quick review, students came, students left, students got married, had a baby, the crops were great, the Crawfords our new missionary couple came in November. Here's some pictures to show you.<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-11096216823258764052018-03-05T09:35:00.003-08:002018-03-05T09:35:57.726-08:00Current students<br />
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You may remember that at the end of last summer, almost all of the previous year's students left. Some of the guys got into trade schools. A couple tried working. One Sasha returned to us in the fall and just a few days before this outing, Vasa, one of Kolya's Mazhara's brothers came back. He is in the black coat far right side of the photo. He seems very happy to be back and has moved into the "new house" with Nikolai, Sasha B, and the two new guys with Anton as the supervisor.</div>
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You saw our grad guys, Nikolai and Sasha B in my last post. The two newest guys are a bit older than some of the students. Valara, 23 and Sergey, 26? (yeah, we really need to talk to the people sending us guys, this is the second over 23 we have gotten this year, but both seem to be really good fits for our program) came about a month ago, and seem to really like working, they have been helping with the house demo for this year's building project next door to our place. </div>
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We only have one girl besides our four grad girls in the program this year and that is Alona. Since she is the only one, she has been living with Garry and I this year, while we look for new group home parents or more girls. The discussion is like a circle that never ends, which do we get first, someone for them to live with or more students to make it worthwhile? </div>
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This month the three grad girls have been living with us, and Alona. They have all been doing some cooking together, making borscht and verininki for us.</div>
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The girls will move to the apartment when the team is here at the end of the month. However we hope to have some group home parents for the old girls house this summer.</div>
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The boys house is where Vova is in charge, his mother also lives there and the boys call her babushka (grandmother) and love when she makes buns and soup for them. There are 5 guys there now.</div>
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The youngest is Vitaly, he has been in and out of the program since summer. He has a big smile, a teasing manner with the girls and is turning 17 soon. He actually has parents, but had lived in an orphanage growing up and was one of the kids returned home as the foster system has been put in place. He is supposed to be attending a trade school, so he leaves to go there for weeks at a time and then comes back for a while. He's one of the guys everyone enjoys hanging out with, but he likes to avoid work, so he can be a problem when other guys follow along. </div>
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Then we have three Sashas living there! Two of the Sasha's came at the same time early in the fall. Both love to break dance and watch movies. One is a good football (soccer) player and one can beat Garry at tennis (ping-pong). One likes to play guitar, one likes to download music... or maybe both of them. </div>
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The third Sasha is the one from last year who returned to us after living on the street for a while (he had left in August, when the other guys went to trade school. He loves to eat.</div>
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None of the Sashas are really good students. One of them comes to the village church on Sundays and loves to sing.</div>
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The other guy who is serious about his faith in God is Vasa (the new Vasa). He comes to church and wants to attend seminars and does a Bible study in the evenings with some of the girls at our house. He came to us after being in jail and coming to Christ. He works hard, writes poetry, and knows more English than most of our students. He grew up with Kolya Mazhara in the same orphanage, and I think he turned 25 in January. He also got invited on a skiing retreat by some Christians then and broke his arm on the last run down the mountain. His right arm, so he hasn't been able to write or do much for six weeks.</div>
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So that is an introduction to the students in the program currently, we also have the 3 guys and 4 grad girls I talked about last time. They have been attending classes on Tuesdays for the life choices program and going to English classes and sometimes my cooking classes. The girls do a lot of the milking of the herd, morning and afternoon. The guys milk in the evenings, and do a lot of work during the summer with planting and harvesting. The students above do more classroom work with Garry, but some hands on experience in the barns also.</div>
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-64673174821502262132018-02-04T15:18:00.000-08:002018-03-05T08:11:44.752-08:00Student updateWhat are our <strike>current and </strike>former students up to? Karina and Andrei are both living and working in Dnepro.<br />
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Andrei is doing well in his job as a go-fer at the railroad shop and has a room with wifi in a boarding house. He came out to the village last weekend to visit. Karina is on her fourth job and is living at a dorm for tram workers, we think her latest job is as a cleaner.<br />
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Our married couple, Kolya and Oxana seem happy and their apartment is a hangout in the evenings for some of the other students.<br />
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Leila and Vika and now Valentina who just returned to us last week, are moving into the front apartment as soon as it is fixed up a bit, with fresh paint and cleaning. They and Oxana do the daytime milkings with Yana, with the guys milking on weekends and at night.<br />
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The three boys were in the apartment for two years. Nikolai and Sasha have moved into the "new house" with two guys who just arrived Friday, with Anton, the Christian guy who came to learn about farming from a different organization last spring as group home supervisor. He is the night/weekend milking supervisor, too.<br />
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Nikolai had a fall at the beginning of the new year and spent a couple weeks in the hospital but he is feeling good now, they say he had a cracked skull and he had a bad concussion. He has a girlfriend, the new student Alona.<br />
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Wait for the next post to meet the new class.<br />
<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-84505367237104403042017-11-14T11:11:00.004-08:002017-11-14T11:11:45.077-08:00Day of the orphan<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-44626876930731527662017-11-09T15:57:00.000-08:002017-11-09T15:57:52.989-08:00BirthdaysThis school year we are celebrating everyone's birthday. Other year's the students throw their own party, if the they can afford it, but many cannot.<br />
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In September Vika had cake at our house and after classes started we now have cake and candles and a present between English (first class of the day with our translator Nelly) and the rest of the day's classes.<br />
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Since everyone has been on a school day so far, we have had cake for Oksana, Lelia and Losha (who asked for non-chocolate cake, it was apple).<br />
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-43865792145438003572017-09-07T13:22:00.002-07:002017-09-07T13:22:19.279-07:00Just for Youth<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qVJpW_iG2_O-_N-X7bBCTwUvUVgE6EXCANBXonTlvqhkJ5udYQjGpT6OEenaCv3Mnbtek8WOB9cg0BaCOOmm1bN_2ID8W6sjVCaGEtMqA7UVpNMoY-8iZk6q9z1VMbCHfAIl9wkAEcKT/s1600/DSCN9115.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qVJpW_iG2_O-_N-X7bBCTwUvUVgE6EXCANBXonTlvqhkJ5udYQjGpT6OEenaCv3Mnbtek8WOB9cg0BaCOOmm1bN_2ID8W6sjVCaGEtMqA7UVpNMoY-8iZk6q9z1VMbCHfAIl9wkAEcKT/s320/DSCN9115.JPG" width="320" /></a>Last Saturday we took all the students who could go (not milking) and wanted to (Losha has an aversion to crowds) to Just for Youth, a monthly Christian outreach program in the city that we have been attending for three years. At the moment we are hoping to find a few more students, we only have two new and two returning students and seven grads (four girls and three guys).<br />
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During game time Sasha Borchuk was the brave first member of our group to volunteer. There was a message followed by food and playing more games- table and ping pong, too.<br />
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-7571692086408948522017-07-06T13:06:00.001-07:002017-07-06T13:06:47.563-07:00Coming and goingThis week we had three new girls and two guys arrive, some say they are only here for a month, but time will tell. The girls are living at "the girls house" where our new translator Nellya is in charge, after the departure of Luba, who decided to move to western Ukraine last month.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's Ira, (and Garry) who went to live with her mother and siblings<br />after growing up in the orphanage and two years with us<br />Garry drove her to her town in the middle of June</td></tr>
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-50689164977568766572017-07-04T13:49:00.001-07:002017-07-04T13:49:15.144-07:00Just Youth<br />
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I <strike>stole </strike> got all these photos from Jo's blog you can check it out here if you'd like to read about what our friends do here in Ukraine. <a href="https://thestevejoadventure.blogspot.com/">https://thestevejoadventure.blogspot.com</a><br />
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They have a different theme every month, and this past week it was Canada Day since the first Saturday of the month was July first!<br />
There is always a short message along with lots of fun activities and often music and food.<br />
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The stars of the show yesterday were the bees, Victor had ordered some new hives - five queens and their entourages had been delivered and he brought them out from Dnepro yesterday morning. Garry assisted and some of the students and Maria watched as classes had just finished for the day- year really- they just finished a last review of the year's material, For the summer there will only be class on Mondays.<br />
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Each set of bees had to be removed from their transport box and put into their new home. One set went into the empty box, we lost one hive over the winter. Four went into the nice new boxes that Peter made (and Marcie painted) when he and the rest of the team were here.<br />
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One of the students said they got stung, but it may have been an excuse because then they were able to leave and no one yelled. I wasn't dressed up in the bee suits and took the photos about six feet away. Victor only got stung once, and he said it was his fault because he pushed the bee with his finger when it was in the way.<br />
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Every box got one new frame to build honeycomb on, besides the ones they came in covered with bees. Garry and Victor would try to spot the queen as he pulled them out and then placed them in the new boxes. It took a couple hours to get them all settled into their new homes.<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-85499817262559305422017-05-08T12:53:00.000-07:002017-05-08T12:53:21.078-07:00New video link and crop class<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIY80pKBOGwqvkGu5aQwdVltengiy0f9CcpHb2_JQT8dzaQ-5yq5QEzX1ysjAwQ8X0yXe8X1MKQGGQFliVp7oStfXgPzYKMwC57bUDqb4CYdKeyZTrnpCdcSZ9qT7CfAE2vX4GehQ7AsM/s1600/DSCN9636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIY80pKBOGwqvkGu5aQwdVltengiy0f9CcpHb2_JQT8dzaQ-5yq5QEzX1ysjAwQ8X0yXe8X1MKQGGQFliVp7oStfXgPzYKMwC57bUDqb4CYdKeyZTrnpCdcSZ9qT7CfAE2vX4GehQ7AsM/s320/DSCN9636.JPG" width="320" /></a>There is a new video featuring the first year students, it was a little too big to upload here,since its the whole year in 4 minutes so here's a link to the hopeforeach facebook page- don't worry, I think you can see it even if you don't use facebook. click here- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hopeforeach/">hopeforeach video</a><br />
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For a little piece of what they did today Garry, Maria and the first year students in the field today in a super speed 70 second crop class!<br />
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One thing we like to do is get the students involved with the Canadian work teams, normally this means working with some of the students on the build, which happened this year.<br />
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I'd like to thank some of our donors from Manitoba, like Creative Print-All in Steinbach who generously designed and printed 50 T-shirts for us.<br />
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We also joined the students for Saturday evening church at the school building. We sang in English and they sang in Ukrainian and Russian.<br />
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After the message Jack lead us all in a song in Russian with a borrowed guitar and the students sang <i>Jesus Loves Me</i> in English.<br />
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Another big donation from Manitoba was from Source for Sports in Steinbach who donated athletic shoes again this year, all the students and a couple kids who helped work on the building (it was spring break in the village) got new shoes. A couple of the older students (the grads) are still wearing the ones they received two years ago, but were excited to get new good shoes to wear to the city!<br />
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Thanks to Farrel at La Broquerie Lumber, his donations included the caps that were a big hit with both the girls and guys.<br />
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Watch for further updates as we finish getting the equipment and start making cheese this year. The video starts with the students helping take apart the shed on the site, pouring cement, and then the arrival of our ten person building team, half from BC, half from Manitoba, and the week both worked and a little more finish work by the Steinbach team, who stayed longer.</div>
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-58747776160778073512017-01-03T19:38:00.002-08:002017-01-03T19:40:00.463-08:00Excursion<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl4ULRT-zLpwIajGOzUaO_YPCOvFvHSMhOzFvhw3iBtkTlyqw7_QJBTHeCv5ua_xpc2lDsdjF4M8Kckn0hUTGE7oU2usrUBa6-vzLUIPBkPUh8EoJrbr1dbTQthaSg3UW3W-LOoptdnEs-/s1600/15823625_1864785227138748_311611632460336971_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl4ULRT-zLpwIajGOzUaO_YPCOvFvHSMhOzFvhw3iBtkTlyqw7_QJBTHeCv5ua_xpc2lDsdjF4M8Kckn0hUTGE7oU2usrUBa6-vzLUIPBkPUh8EoJrbr1dbTQthaSg3UW3W-LOoptdnEs-/s400/15823625_1864785227138748_311611632460336971_n.jpg" width="400" /></a>Victor drove some of the students and group home families to Dnepro today where they enjoyed an outing to see the downtown dressed for the holidays, they ate at Puzata Hata too.<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-72112036918876189662016-12-30T12:25:00.000-08:002016-12-30T12:25:59.212-08:00Merry Christmas for the studentsWhile the students are looking forward to the New Year holiday, which is the big day in Ukraine, they have been busy with Christmas celebrations. One Christmas day, Victor and Maria were in the village and all the group home families and students enjoyed a celebration and food at the classroom.<br />
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The students who are going to the "evening school" went to a celebration there this week too. Looks like there were skits and other fun.<br />
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While we are in Canada, Victor, Maria, Max and the group home parents are busy with the students.<br />
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Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-78098606595894721632016-11-06T12:20:00.001-08:002016-11-06T12:20:07.253-08:00Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We celebrated Thanksgiving again this year with everyone from the trade school invited with a potluck dinner (and turkey). Lots of food and fun with an opening devotional from our Ukrainian Hope for Each director Victor Danstev on Saturday evening. This year it was held in the new classroom with three sheets of chipboard over the desks to seat 38 people on a collection of chairs and benches from the houses. If you are wondering why November 4th, we chose it last week when the corn was all harvested.<br />
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Tonight the boys had a birthday party at their house. It was for Vasili. His twin Misha stayed in Kiroy Rog for this week (a bunch of students had gone for the weekend to visit a church that sent some of the them here), so the boys told me in English class today he doesn't get a birthday because he's not here. They worked very hard to make food for everyone. There was puree (mashed potatoes), beet salad, cutletta,(tiny meatloaves) hard boiled eggs, apple fritters, broeterbrot,(open-faced sandwiches) cookies, candy and cake.<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-10823090828718740002016-10-19T01:51:00.001-07:002016-10-19T02:07:22.154-07:00Students come and go<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2NzbTo3ECkTKVhw1uGK6970HYVX0Kk3cFhRGI8-SmimrcU1es-YE6EMTXX_anYv0z6GHL3VadEXQKPnf0vP4wqnZ-nr63xIVCXjDuZ_dzUvdrcD_L7iOM-NQsT2ZVVNKKpf5dLTliwYu/s1600/DSCN8170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2NzbTo3ECkTKVhw1uGK6970HYVX0Kk3cFhRGI8-SmimrcU1es-YE6EMTXX_anYv0z6GHL3VadEXQKPnf0vP4wqnZ-nr63xIVCXjDuZ_dzUvdrcD_L7iOM-NQsT2ZVVNKKpf5dLTliwYu/s320/DSCN8170.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
We get many students who end up here because they are orphans over 18 with no place to go so someone has sent them to us. Sometimes they are unhappy about being here, even if they are afraid of the cows, or have other problems. A week or so after arriving one of the boys said he was afraid of the cows, so one of the other boys asked to be paired with him to help him out. We were not too worried as Karina came two years ago afraid of the cows, dogs and wanted to leave after a week. Now she is chief cow chaser in the new parlor and never wants to leave here.<br />
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Here's the last photo of Sergey or Serosjha, taken on Friday afternoon as we were leaving for teaching English in Dnepro. Sergey's the one wearing shorts and the Chicago Bulls coat we gave him.He complained whenever I took photos so he is not in the one with the boys posing with their new hats. He came a month ago and kept telling us he was going to leave whenever things were not going his way, and was asked to leave after telling the police a lot of untrue things about the school Friday night. Hopefully he'll be happier back in the city. There was a lot of friction between him and the other boys who thought he was lazy. They would help in the yard at their house while he watched TV. I think the only thing he liked was English class, because he knew everything we studied so far.<br />
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However a couple hours earlier on Friday our latest female student Masha arrived (now I will have to call Maria, Garry's assistant by the name she prefers). So far she is excited about the farm and even Saturday evening church although she seems to have a problem with withdrawal from some unknown substance, a first for us. <br />
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She was sent to us from the same Christian organization from Kherson that brought Nina a week earlier. Nina is the one with short hair at the end of the row in the photo. She seems to be adjusting, although if she shows up at the house again with cold feet because she isn't wearing socks in her rubber boots after receiving several nice warm pairs... I may not find her more. She seems to have studied English before, and we were told that she and Masha don't like each other when Masha arrived. Now there are three girls at Luda's house, so we only have room for a couple more students if we find more until the addition is finished inside, which the guys are working on now.<br />
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<br />Teresa and Garry Verhooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02645090442198396691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905415590069484924.post-86890754393340447772016-09-30T01:26:00.001-07:002016-09-30T01:26:24.347-07:00Student Pics<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Well, now that I am back, here are some photos of the students, new and old! So far the new class is all guys, eight of them, which means that the boys house is full with Andrey still living there. The three guy grads have moved into their apartment, which has a real electricity hookup as of Wednesday, When they moved in a couple weeks ago they still had to use the extension cord from the neighbor's house we used during construction. They were cooking once a day at the nearby new house group home, the one remodeled the year before.<br />
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The new guys were all very excited when I handed out Winnipeg Jets hats and gloves that the team brought from Steinbach last spring. All but one guy posed for photos. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeBsYTHTJ4g-C8aP2VHvCAQHyAURfb0CL9AzbUuINswOhANVG71rFA1d4KjzEjJgaVFJiYuKy5SW9OUXkvFuRMd_1FMDIfjkUpsMAZdMCtOjTsJ7uu-W9qMcuClgyka2BTQHd-gSHTRFB/s1600/DSCN7790.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeBsYTHTJ4g-C8aP2VHvCAQHyAURfb0CL9AzbUuINswOhANVG71rFA1d4KjzEjJgaVFJiYuKy5SW9OUXkvFuRMd_1FMDIfjkUpsMAZdMCtOjTsJ7uu-W9qMcuClgyka2BTQHd-gSHTRFB/s320/DSCN7790.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdkUWS0HBFlKc6Q_fDSS0ESOVYf_Jpgk7C9xgjx8DTPEHJU_5QZQaM3h8SPZXixLSXYwFHfWbzAk0VJFjjgebGzMKP7RSQ53-6hP0clIYZMMe6Hhyphenhyphen1lmhgvjve3edW8S27YSL0Jp4P0h3/s1600/DSCN7798.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdkUWS0HBFlKc6Q_fDSS0ESOVYf_Jpgk7C9xgjx8DTPEHJU_5QZQaM3h8SPZXixLSXYwFHfWbzAk0VJFjjgebGzMKP7RSQ53-6hP0clIYZMMe6Hhyphenhyphen1lmhgvjve3edW8S27YSL0Jp4P0h3/s320/DSCN7798.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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You will notice we are having class in our new large room which is in the other side of the building where the apartments for the grads are. This is the building remodeled by the teams from Steinbach and Salmon Arm this spring. Pretty much everything is finished in the classroom and two apartments, the ones the guys and girls are living in. The small studio apartment will not be used this year.<br />
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Two of the boys, Samson ( another Kolya) and Dima, designed and built steps for the classroom. Garry plans to add a deck back here someday. Maria took a photo of them on their handiwork the first day of school.<br />
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Interesting fact: we discovered our original Kolya has siblings because he has twin brothers Misha (he likes Micheal in English class, he told me) and Vasili, or Vashsa who joined us this year. They look and sound very much like him, but they are not as tall.<br />
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There was food, fun and crafts, and a talk about how men and women are different.(Maria translated for me).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her sister Oksana turned 19 a week later</td></tr>
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