That's our Aipery....

It was a rough blow to all of us when the Canadian Embassy in Kiev refused Visa's for our girls... but that's another story... The girls are doing a much better job then I am at dealing with the disappointment.. I think they are a lot more used to disappointments then we are.
We moved them to Krivoy Rog where Ed has a home for them to stay. They are living there and volunteering in the orphanages and the invalid homes .
One of the things they are doing is teaching a group of kids. Aiperi has a group of about a dozen kids in particular that she has grown fond of. She has been able to share with them her storey of grace and hope. She told them all that God takes delight in granting the desires of their hearts... it just takes time some times. She shared how she had lived in an orphanage just like them, but after several years, her dreams started to come to reality, and now her family has been restored, she has a home, and is in collage, and now she is with them for the summer to encourage them. So her first project was to get them all to start dreaming.. and draw pictures of the things that they are dreaming of.
After they had done this she started looking at all the dreams that these kids had, and has determined that she is going to meet these dreams . They did not have Internet yet, and was not able to get her dreams through to me fast enough, so our precocious and resourceful Girl took maters into her own hands. She had made pillows that she was bringing to Canada as gifts for all the people that she was going to be visiting .. so she took the pillows and began selling them to raise funds to meet the dreams.. the first few were easy they were simple things like a pen or a plain book for writing, but then they started to get a little bigger.. one of the boys dreams was to have a skate board... a couple days ago, she had raised enough to meet that dream
She went out and got the skateboard that the boy had wanted, and wrapped it specially for him... well I am not sure if the wrapping job was for him or for me..hhahahaha.. she wrote in English the message to him... either way, he was so happy to have his special dream met.

Aipery is going to continue working on the special dreams of her class over the next few weeks... she is now trying to sell enough of her stuff to buy one of the boys a bike...

Faced with the needs of others, she stops and asks herself... "what can I do, what do I have at my disposal to show love and bring hope to another..". I love when they start to reproduce what they have seen...

Tomorrow I will bring you an update from Ukraine from Altynai's perspective... more moving stuff...