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Grandma Mentoring Program The Sisters in Jesus the Lord are helping to promote Mary Mother of God Mission Society's “Grandma Mentoring Program,” for Russian women (or men) of grandmotherly/grandfatherly age to hold babies daily at 3 Russian orphanages: in Vladivostok, Nakhodka, and Lesozavodsk. From the Vladivostok Sunrise, May 2006: For $60 a month we can send a grandma into an orphanage for 12 hours a week. This program was suggested by Americans who have adopted children at orphanages in our area. They say that the kids, besides needing more and better food [See our webpage "Help the Orphans"] also need more socialization. The program is designed to also aid pensioners who need additional income—they become the “grannies”. Fr Myron offered to set up the program if the adoptive parents would donate a year’s worth of funding for the program at the orphanage of their choice. After our volunteers jumped through the bureaucratic hoops, the program is now beginning to function at all three of “our” orphanages, Baby Hospital #3, Artyom, and Ussurysk.
To help a Russian grandma
or grandpa with transportation costs and her/his own nourishment, so that she/he can hold baby orphans
12 hours each week,
Donate Here
to M The monthly amount now needed is $70.00. (11/14/08)
First “Grandmas” start work in Artyom.
Here is a letter from one of those benefactors: “Dear Fr Myron, I have become aware of your work in the Baby Home at Artyom, after having been aware of the work of your parishes for several years. My husband and I adopted biological brothers from Artyom, our son David in 2001 (now 5 years old) and our son Michael in 2004 (now 4 years old). The boys were adopted at separate times, as the birthmother was pregnant with Michael when we adopted David, and he was not relinquished until he was over a year old. We also have a four year old daughter adopted from Belarus in 2003. “I have sent in an initial donation of $100 for the Artyom baby home Milk and Fruit Program, and will send more monthly. Our sons were both malnourished when we adopted them, and I have been praying for a secure, trustworthy organization through which we could donate to the orphanage. We actually think well of the orphanage, and feel that the care there was fairly good for an institutional setting, except for the meager food resources. “Thank you for all that you do for the people of the Russian Far East, and particularly all of those who are vulnerable and alone. God Bless you for all of you do.” Lisa Brown, Danville, CA
Little orphan gets his hair cut by one of the "grandmas"
Brian, USA, was a volunteer in Vladivostok for two years, visiting the orphans and elderly regularly.
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