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| Garry introduces Sweta to Max and Andrey |
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| Classes were on break when we drove up |
We'll let you know how things turn out!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A new girl
On Sunday we had a phone call from Victor, who had driven to Kramatorsk with a couple who works with orphans in Kirvy Rog...they had met an orphan girl at the church service there and would she be able to come to the trade school. Garry phoned Maxim it was decided, so she got an chance to interview and decide about staying ---lots of room in the girls house, anyway.
Swetlana (Sweta) is a graduated orphan who got a diploma in greenhouse work, but
was unable to get a job. She had a small room at a factory and a 300
grivna a month ($40) unemplyeement payment from the government). She is
a Christian girl who had atteneded the church there, taken English
lessons with our friend Stacy last year, and was baptised this summer
while working at the kitchen at a camp. She came with a bag of clothes
and a cell phone to Dnepro, where they spent the night, we picked her up
and brought here back to meet people at the school Monday afternoon.
We'll let you know how things turn out!
We'll let you know how things turn out!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Hiking in Crimea
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| Andrei with his big backpack |
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| Three of our students |
Our Andrei is one of the students from the village and went with the group, and borrowed our camera to take pictures, so here are some of them. Remember we want to give them lifeskills not just job skills, and this is part of the plan.
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| group photo |
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| Andrei with one of the two Maxims in school |
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| soup's on! |
Monday, October 15, 2012
Katia's birthday
On Tuesday we were having the students for lunch between classes because their usual dinner arrangement was unavailable, the foster parents were having training last week. I had planned a nice dinner with a potato casserole, beans and fried cabbage, along with bread and dessert. I had thought about making pie, but I did cake instead. Garry had heard that Katia was having a few friends visiting, and it was an inspired choice that I made cake, because it turned out it was her birthday.
We got them all around the table and after a slight delay---I had not got the pototoes in the oven soon enough and we had to wait until 12:30 after Englsih class was over at noon. We found the latest television report online, while we were waiting, since some of the students had not seen it. After eating, I found some candles and we sang and had her blow out the 20 candles, she seemed to really enjoy it. She is a quiet student since school started, but has seemed happy lately. She had invited us to her party at the "girls house", along with all the students, and so you can see that I finally got some photos there. We ate dinner with everyone, lots of special salads, but could not stay for the cake and the rest of the fun, they were playng games when we left...or I left after playing a game, Garry had to run out and breed a cow somewhere in the village, he just got back in time for our drive to Dnepropetroesk for our English Bible study, or book study- we are doing Mere Christianity.
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| Katia is ready to blow out the candles with a full table of friends |
We got them all around the table and after a slight delay---I had not got the pototoes in the oven soon enough and we had to wait until 12:30 after Englsih class was over at noon. We found the latest television report online, while we were waiting, since some of the students had not seen it. After eating, I found some candles and we sang and had her blow out the 20 candles, she seemed to really enjoy it. She is a quiet student since school started, but has seemed happy lately. She had invited us to her party at the "girls house", along with all the students, and so you can see that I finally got some photos there. We ate dinner with everyone, lots of special salads, but could not stay for the cake and the rest of the fun, they were playng games when we left...or I left after playing a game, Garry had to run out and breed a cow somewhere in the village, he just got back in time for our drive to Dnepropetroesk for our English Bible study, or book study- we are doing Mere Christianity.
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| the dog-puppy at the girls' house |
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| It's Masha the new translator in the kitchen |
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| balloon time in the living room |
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| shoes everywhere in the entry for the party |
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| more balloons boucing off the walls over the couch |
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| and more balloons! |
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| Sasha is trying out the bunks beds- while Katia has her hair done in one of the bedrooms The boys and family moved into their remodelled house in the village the next day |
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| So this is the "girls' house" |
Monday, October 8, 2012
We're on television
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| Students doing lab at the farm on TV |
the newest news broadcast
If you like to see the older news story with English subtitles, it is available on youtube, thanks to our project partners at New Hope, click this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcGmAioKlA&feature=youtu.be
Hoping to get some photos of the houses this week, the boys and foster parents will be moving in this week, their house in the village has the renovations completed.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Television again?
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| This cow is 16 years old! |
You can see the students were dressed up for the cameras. They taped at the classroom (even English class) and the girls' foster house where the students eat lunch everyday.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
On the news...
Just for fun, unless you understand Ukrainian, here is a link to the news report about the trade school that they were filming here on Thursday afternoon. Garry is called a Canadian farmer selected for the honor to teach the students- I think someone told us who does speak Ukrainian. You can see the students in the classroom, barn and even having lunch at the girls house.
http://podrobnosti.ua/video/morning/2012/09/21/859377.html
We have made the newspapers also! I have used google translate to translate this web page version for you. It's a little stiff, due to the differences in the way the two languages use word order among other things, but you can get the idea. It totally doesn't come up with Garry Verhoog or the name of our village - Nikoli Polia (which means Nickolas' field) or John and Ev Wiens though!
Basically, it gives the story of the why and how's of the trade school. It is an experimental trade school, licenced by the government for 20 new students each year, and there are 7 this year, so far. The students are learning English because we hope to send some of them to Canada for a work experience there.
If you read Russian here is where you can find the original text online. http://www.mig.com.ua/chapter/3582.html
Zaporozhye orphans learn from Canadian farmers
Have you ever wondered where to go orphans discharged from the boarding schools? Where do they learn? Do the normal paid work? Where to live, after all? Who needs them?Statistics disappointing: Many of the children have alreadyin youth drink too much and fallin prison, and the girls go to the bar ...Appeared, some people still care about these issues.And, furthermore, these people find a way out.
In the village of Nikolai Paul Zaporozhye region in Ukraine opened the first non-profit vocational school - training center [UPC] "A New Hope." Project for our country unique. It aims at training and socialization of orphans, graduates of boarding schools. Here they will be able not only to get licensed by the Ministry of Education Special "Dairy farming" [not only in theory but also in practice at working farm], but also to learn the English language, computer literacy, social ethics, psychology, relationships.How good ideas are bornWas initiated by the Canadian Centre made a couple, John and Evelyn Vince, who lives in Ukraine for five years. Two years ago, John and Evelyn met in Kiev with Maxim Oliferovskim, now director of the center. Nothing happens - people from different countries come together in unexpected views. Not only that, three years ago in the village there was one Canadian - farmer Harry Verhuk [he is now just and teaches at the center, and on the basis of his farm, students will practice], opened a dairy farm in the determination to teach the villagers, as in our case You can build a successful livestock farming. Coincidence? Rather, fate.Maxim and his Canadian friends were able to find sponsors in Canada, whose contributions and funded "New Hope," and brought to the work of young American volunteers living in Kiev. Representatives of regional services for families and young people, as well as the regional department of vocational education and training have helped to overcome bureaucratic delays in registration documents.Who are they, future farmers?Ministry of Education of the quota of students in a course UOC - 20. For the first year until the typed seven. Home [and so far only] a criterion for admission is the desire of the two-year study of the child. To dial the students conducted interviews among the graduates of professional orientation in five orphanages: Gulyai-Pole, Tokmak, Molochansk, Volnyansk and former Zaporozhye boarding school № 3 [now KP "Zaporizhia training rehab boarding"], were taken to a farm Verhuka.Graduates of boarding center managers are not limited to - learn here can and so-called "social orphans" of Nicholas Paul and surrounding villages: children from single-parent, low-income families or families with many children.17-year-old Max, a graduate Molochansk boarding school, a little embarrassed, tells of the reasons to go to his farmers. He thinks, in our country, such a business can be profitable if approached correctly to his organization. Maxim is aware that the path of Ukrainian farmers may be arduous, but what to do? We must break through. That's very grown-up boy says.Job - well,and the family - even betterThe second part of the project - the housing program for the students and orphans. The child has passed the social adaptation and was able to adapt to independent adult life, he needs to grow, if not in the family, at least to see the model of a complete family. And growing up in a boarding school kids do not have a clue about the basic things: planning a family budget, distribution of domestic tasks, girls often do not even know how to cook. Therefore, students of the "New Hope" live with mentors, who replaced their adoptive parents [of them were volunteers from Zaporozhye and Odessa regions], in private homes in Nicholas Paul. Girls - in the same house, the boys - in the other. Good thing: close and caring adults, and housekeeping boys learn to lead themselves.Mentor and now the mother of girls Ludmila money itself has recently experienced a real life drama. Ludmila - believer, raising two daughters and has long wanted to adopt children from the orphanage. Husband strongly opposed, added religious differences - and was followed by a divorce. Ludmila was a whole year with children forced to live under the same roof with her became stranger and quietly bury their dreams about a huge happy family. The woman says that she prayed for the whole year, and asked God to give her a hint of what to do next. When I heard about the upcoming opening of the center, she realized: her prayers answered. Now the woman doted in their ward of [daughter Ludmila also live under the same roof with a new family] and rejoicing - the girls are learning to bake pies willingly under her strict guidance.Life after "Hope"The essence of the program - not just to educate, but also to employ in the future. At the former farm complex in Nicholas Paul, who is now in a dilapidated state, leaders of the "New Hope" plans to open an updated farm [in 200 cows], which can apply their skills graduates. Some graduates are ready "with his hands and feet" to take our farm and neighboring regions [farmers professionals and young people in general are now in farms starved]. The best students go for internships in Canada - on farm Verhuka Harry and his friends. The guys who want to work on themselves, the center will facilitate the acquisition of several cows to open the individual economy and housing? [Rent a house or an interest-free loan].
Settlement Nicholas Paul have created over a hundred years ago, German colonists invited to our lands by Catherine the Great.Parents, John and Evelyn - come to the very German-Mennonite, so Canadian family is a special place, historical, you might say.
Anastasia Pisarev
http://podrobnosti.ua/video/morning/2012/09/21/859377.html
We have made the newspapers also! I have used google translate to translate this web page version for you. It's a little stiff, due to the differences in the way the two languages use word order among other things, but you can get the idea. It totally doesn't come up with Garry Verhoog or the name of our village - Nikoli Polia (which means Nickolas' field) or John and Ev Wiens though!
Basically, it gives the story of the why and how's of the trade school. It is an experimental trade school, licenced by the government for 20 new students each year, and there are 7 this year, so far. The students are learning English because we hope to send some of them to Canada for a work experience there.
If you read Russian here is where you can find the original text online. http://www.mig.com.ua/chapter/3582.html
Zaporozhye orphans learn from Canadian farmers
Have you ever wondered where to go orphans discharged from the boarding schools? Where do they learn? Do the normal paid work? Where to live, after all? Who needs them?Statistics disappointing: Many of the children have alreadyin youth drink too much and fallin prison, and the girls go to the bar ...Appeared, some people still care about these issues.And, furthermore, these people find a way out.
In the village of Nikolai Paul Zaporozhye region in Ukraine opened the first non-profit vocational school - training center [UPC] "A New Hope." Project for our country unique. It aims at training and socialization of orphans, graduates of boarding schools. Here they will be able not only to get licensed by the Ministry of Education Special "Dairy farming" [not only in theory but also in practice at working farm], but also to learn the English language, computer literacy, social ethics, psychology, relationships.How good ideas are bornWas initiated by the Canadian Centre made a couple, John and Evelyn Vince, who lives in Ukraine for five years. Two years ago, John and Evelyn met in Kiev with Maxim Oliferovskim, now director of the center. Nothing happens - people from different countries come together in unexpected views. Not only that, three years ago in the village there was one Canadian - farmer Harry Verhuk [he is now just and teaches at the center, and on the basis of his farm, students will practice], opened a dairy farm in the determination to teach the villagers, as in our case You can build a successful livestock farming. Coincidence? Rather, fate.Maxim and his Canadian friends were able to find sponsors in Canada, whose contributions and funded "New Hope," and brought to the work of young American volunteers living in Kiev. Representatives of regional services for families and young people, as well as the regional department of vocational education and training have helped to overcome bureaucratic delays in registration documents.Who are they, future farmers?Ministry of Education of the quota of students in a course UOC - 20. For the first year until the typed seven. Home [and so far only] a criterion for admission is the desire of the two-year study of the child. To dial the students conducted interviews among the graduates of professional orientation in five orphanages: Gulyai-Pole, Tokmak, Molochansk, Volnyansk and former Zaporozhye boarding school № 3 [now KP "Zaporizhia training rehab boarding"], were taken to a farm Verhuka.Graduates of boarding center managers are not limited to - learn here can and so-called "social orphans" of Nicholas Paul and surrounding villages: children from single-parent, low-income families or families with many children.17-year-old Max, a graduate Molochansk boarding school, a little embarrassed, tells of the reasons to go to his farmers. He thinks, in our country, such a business can be profitable if approached correctly to his organization. Maxim is aware that the path of Ukrainian farmers may be arduous, but what to do? We must break through. That's very grown-up boy says.Job - well,and the family - even betterThe second part of the project - the housing program for the students and orphans. The child has passed the social adaptation and was able to adapt to independent adult life, he needs to grow, if not in the family, at least to see the model of a complete family. And growing up in a boarding school kids do not have a clue about the basic things: planning a family budget, distribution of domestic tasks, girls often do not even know how to cook. Therefore, students of the "New Hope" live with mentors, who replaced their adoptive parents [of them were volunteers from Zaporozhye and Odessa regions], in private homes in Nicholas Paul. Girls - in the same house, the boys - in the other. Good thing: close and caring adults, and housekeeping boys learn to lead themselves.Mentor and now the mother of girls Ludmila money itself has recently experienced a real life drama. Ludmila - believer, raising two daughters and has long wanted to adopt children from the orphanage. Husband strongly opposed, added religious differences - and was followed by a divorce. Ludmila was a whole year with children forced to live under the same roof with her became stranger and quietly bury their dreams about a huge happy family. The woman says that she prayed for the whole year, and asked God to give her a hint of what to do next. When I heard about the upcoming opening of the center, she realized: her prayers answered. Now the woman doted in their ward of [daughter Ludmila also live under the same roof with a new family] and rejoicing - the girls are learning to bake pies willingly under her strict guidance.Life after "Hope"The essence of the program - not just to educate, but also to employ in the future. At the former farm complex in Nicholas Paul, who is now in a dilapidated state, leaders of the "New Hope" plans to open an updated farm [in 200 cows], which can apply their skills graduates. Some graduates are ready "with his hands and feet" to take our farm and neighboring regions [farmers professionals and young people in general are now in farms starved]. The best students go for internships in Canada - on farm Verhuka Harry and his friends. The guys who want to work on themselves, the center will facilitate the acquisition of several cows to open the individual economy and housing? [Rent a house or an interest-free loan].
Settlement Nicholas Paul have created over a hundred years ago, German colonists invited to our lands by Catherine the Great.Parents, John and Evelyn - come to the very German-Mennonite, so Canadian family is a special place, historical, you might say.
Anastasia Pisarev
Friday, September 21, 2012
Practicum - or working on the farm
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| the boys forking wheelbarrows full of corn silage |
Garry tells me the other students are wondering why Andrei is taking the classes at school when he already knows what to do! I said it is because he wants to be a boss not a worker!
That is the aim of Garry's courses to teach them not just to be qualified to work on a farm, like the diploma they are working toward, but manage one. They will learn to balance feed rations, breed cows artificially, select better animals (dairy judging) and treat illnesses, not just better milking procedures and cow care, but the reasons why things are done the way the are, so they can make good decisions as managers, or even owners of dairy farms.
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