IMPORTANT NEWS
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David Avilla
OUR MISSION: Advocate for Orphans International seeks to express God's care toward Ukraine orphans by coordinating two to three week "American Culture Camps" for under-privileged Ukrainian children. Most of the children are able to be adopted and many will meet families who will want to share their love and lives as permanent family members. Our program will provide the beginning of that adventure!
Our next "Hands of Hope" programs are scheduled for late December 2009 in the San Francisco South Bay area. Ukraine orphans will arrive in late December 2009 for two weeks of recreation and time with host families. Our hope is that each child will have the opportunity to meet a family who will take action to bring them back as a permanent member of their family!
Upcoming groups are planned for:
December 2009 in Florida
Summer 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina
If you are interested in having a Ukraine orphan hosting program in your town, please contact us!
Click this link to register and receive email updates of all our upcoming Ukraine hosting programs.
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Statistics regarding orphans in Ukraine
- After the age of 5, a Ukraine orphan only has a 20% chance to be adopted.
- As they pass through the system, nutrition and living conditions deteriorate.
- Orphans "graduate" from the system at the age of 16.
- They will be homeless, alone and lacking the education necessary to provide for themselves.
- 10% will have committed suicide by their 18th birthday.
- 60% of the girls will end up in prostitution.
- 70% of the boys will enter a life of crime.
- Only 20% will find work.
Our Mission
Advocate for Orphans International seeks to express God's care toward Ukraine orphans by coordinating two to three week "American Culture Camps" for under-privileged Ukrainian children. Most of the children are able to be adopted and many will meet families who will want to share their love and lives as permanent members. Our program will provide the beginning of that adventure!
The links listed in the right hand column will open up a world of information and opportunity for you.
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time."
~ Charles Bukowski
Thoughts for Today
"No man makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he knows it is not everything."
~ Edmund Burke
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do."
~ Helen Keller
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke
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