{"id":8332,"date":"2023-04-20T00:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kachelman.com\/ukraine\/blog\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2023-04-20T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:23:32","slug":"trip-report-8-april-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kachelman.com\/ukraine\/blog\/2023\/04\/20\/trip-report-8-april-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Report #8–April 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: This is the family of Eugene & Lada. They have TWENTY-ONE children! They have four of their naturally born children and then started giving a home to children whose parents were killed in the war. The most recent is 3-year-old Sophia (blue t-shirt in the middle). Sophia was left in Kharkov and Eugene and Lada travelled to get her. The family is full of smiles and activity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today has been a day of amazing visits and actions. Today underscores the enormous scope of our activities in shipping benevolent aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One disconcerting fact of the war is the ever-present but unanswered question\u2014\u201cWhat happens to the children whose parents are killed?\u201d The immediate answer is, these will go into orphanages. However, I am becoming acquainted with a number of families who do not want these children to go into an orphanage. These are adopting the newly orphaned children. Today I met three families that have been helped with items from our shipments. These are categorized as \u201cFamilies with many children.\u201d Nicholi was able to drive us to meet these families that have been displaced by the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anatoly and Ira had adopted three children in addition to their own three. In the photo you see three of the children and three more were in school classes. So at this point they have six children. They lived in one of the Regions that first suffered from Russia\u2019s invasion and occupation. Thankfully they had left. They are currently living in an apartment that belongs to someone else who has left Ukraine. They have to pay utilities and food. They have tried to find jobs and Ira has found a job but it pays very little. She was unable to meet today because she was working. Anatoly\u2019s mom has been with them since their departure from home. They are currently working on the documents that will permit them to adopt a 3-month old and a 3-year-old. These are siblings whose parents were serving in the military and were killed. They will be getting these new additions soon so they will have eight children and three adults living in a small apartment\u2014but they are very happy. Nicholi had bought food and one bucket that we gave to them. Nicholi said that he was trying to raise funds to help pay the utility bill and I gave some cash to help that need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n