New Thing is your love in action, inside the former Soviet Union

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A report from Doug Brendel to all who support or follow New Thing in Belarus...

What’s wrong with you?

...is the wrong question

Better question: What’s the best thing about you?

Welcome to Osipovichi’s boarding school for children with physical and mental disabilities!

Here, 80+ kids — many abandoned because of their differentness — get to be kids.

Dorms, a dining room, school, doctor visits ... and plenty of love.

In fact, the children here feel your love.

Here’s why....

While there’s an impressive clinic on-site for the children....

It’s friends of New Thing who provide all the children’s medicine-cabinet meds and supplies every year.

Painkillers, cough meds, antihistamines, antibiotics ... bandages, thermometers, the list goes on....

So when they have the kind of problem kids have — a scraped knee, an achy head — they can get help...

And get back to being the best they can be.

Y’all are in “school country” now, according to the headline.

In the lower left the poster with the handprints says: “We are different, but we are TOGETHER!”

Schooling is key to helping children grow into self-reliant adults. So classes are serious business here.

Still, it’s fun to have Oleg the photographer drop in and take a few shots!

God bless you for asking the children of Osipovichi, every day...

What’s the best thing about you?

Thanks for journeying with New Thing!

More adventures to come!

Much love,                                                                                                                                           

Doug Brendel

(Photos by our dear friend Oleg Yarovenko)

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Thanks again!