The Voices of Ukrainians

2014 highs Fall retreat             Fall retreat started with a really big disappointment and ended up being one of the best times that we’ve ever had with some of the kids who live in the orphanage.   The plan was that we would start out the week with the older kids, and this would let us get to know them better, and would let Kolya and Halya get to know them better so that they would have a better feel for who they should invite to live in Second Chance after the kids finish ninth grade.   The second part of the week we planned to spend in the orphanage doing a program for all the kids who don’t have anywhere to go.   Leading up to the retreat, the director of the orphanage had been telling us that the kids who are wards of the state would be able to go to the camp without any problem.   He would just give permission.   We checked with him about this for almost two months,   we told him that we could do the camp officially through the central office just in case anything happe