This coming week is my
last in Ukraine for a while as I’m preparing to go back to Kyrgyzstan next week.
Immigration laws keep me moving and my 3 months is just about up
here. So I’m winding down things here in
Krivoy Rog.
This past week Anya
and I continued our visits to the baby hospital. On Monday’s visit the little boy whose mother
“forgot” him for 2 weeks took what we think were his first steps by himself. Watching him let go and take a few hands free
steps I was so humbled thinking that actual parents were not a part of this big
milestone. Then on Thursday we visited a
new baby who the police brought in the night before. The nurses didn’t even know her name yet and
she wasn’t able to tell anyone as she has very little vocabulary and talks
mostly baby talk. She seemed to answer
to Masha. We figure she is between 1½ to
2 years old and the only other detail given was that her mother was in a mental
institution for an assessment. (Another
visitor said that the next day her mother was there and looked like she had
been abused.) We spent the morning with
this sweet and very bright girl but when it was time to leave she started
crying…the real loud, screaming, heartbreaking kind of crying that was echoing
throughout the corridors of the hospital.
Needless to say it seemed like a very long walk down the hall when we
left…sigh. So obviously we’ll have to
check on her this week to see if she is still there and see how she’s doing.
Also this past week
Yura and I armed with more candies made another visit to see the folks at Boorie
Ooglie. The new kitchen looks finished
and they were giving it a good cleaning to get it ready. Yura also showed me a partially built
building on the property that I had not seen before. It was supposed to be the replacement for the
disabled home but construction stopped, as construction stopped everywhere,
with the fall of the Soviet
Union and I guess Ukraine never found the money to finish it. That’s why the residents are in a very old
and run down facility. But at least
there has been some folks sponsoring some repainting and things that I
mentioned in my last blog entry to make the surroundings more pleasant for the
residents right now. At this point one
can only dream about a shiny new facility with proper plumbing and
accessibility features where the residents are given a better quality of life.
So to wind down, this
week I hope to visit the kids at the rehab centre as well as get a couple of
baby hospital visits in before I leave for Kyrgyzstan. I have
a wish list of things that I would like to do when I get to Tokmok but right
now I only have the budget just to love on the folks there. On top of this costs are higher in Kyrgyzstan
than in Ukraine. At least the visa laws
in Kyrgyzstan have changed recently where I don’t have to
buy a visa for a 60 day stay. But I know
God didn’t call me there without plans for pulling things off…all in His time. Your continued prayers are really
appreciated.
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support or any of our programmes, or to help me sponsor activities and needs
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Thank you for seeing my heart. Till next time…Я люблю тебя!
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| A few minutes after this photo was taken he took some steps by himself. |
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| This is the temporary kitchen for Boorie Ooglie |
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| This was to be the new Boorie Ooglie before the USSR fell |
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| Yura (on the right) with a resident of Boorie Ooglie and another view of the partially built building |
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| Some of the Boorie Ooglie folks and me |
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