WISH BOOK 2022

 Welcome to the WISH BOOK for the Christmas Season 2022. 

I remember the excitement as a child when the wish book came out.  I would pour over it over and over for hours, circle things I wanted, and fold the pages over hoping that my parents would see.. It was a way of asking with out coming right out and asking. 

Its funny, I still have a hard time coming right out and asking, but as a voice for those who have no voice, it is an uncomfortable feeling I have learned to deal with.  Fortunately , you our friends and sponsors are gracious, and have even been contacting us to ask when the catalogue will be coming out .. So here we go.  This year the theme will be The twelve days of Christmas .   I will present the wishes all at once now, and then over the next 12 days I will highlight each of the wishes  

Day 1

Christmas In the orphanages and institutions.

Day two 

Christmas food hampers.  

Day 3 

Restock our farm chickens  THIS NEED HAS BEEN MET thank you 

Day 4

Vitamins 

Day 5 

Emergency food and coal delivery

Day 6 

Student care packages 

Day 7 

Christmas on the farm   THIS NEED HAS BEEN MET thank you 

Christmas Celebrations is a time when the farm will be bursting at the seams , not just those that live there permanently, but those who have graduated from the farm and those away at school . Many of them will come HOME for Christmas. We could have as many as 20 home for the holidays.  We would like to be able to put on a special meal and have personalized gifts for them.  $25 a person could make this happen 

Day 8

Business start ups 

Young family  

Some of you may remember Sash (Nicks older Brother) from the farm. He is now married and has a little girl. He and his brother in law have started a car painting business and currently rent their tools .. We would like to help them to purchase their own tools so that the business could turn a profit. $600

Babushkas

After just giving out 3 large bags of knitted hats, mites, scarves and slippers, we have seen how much they are appreciated.

We would like to support the start up of a couple babushka's who we know. They do beautiful knitting.  We would like to support by  purchasing their products and making sure they make their way to needy homes. $10 

Young mom.

 One young mom we know is working hard making Hair clips.  She is charging just $2.50 a set.  These would be great to add to the Christmas hampers 

This is a English and business school in a remote city. They are doing some amazing things with there students . They would like to find 500 donations of $10. I will share more on Day 8 highlight.

Day 9

Family home makeover $350

Time to time we find families that are living in difficult situations. years of poverty often leave people living in not so nice situations and brings on depression.  It does not take much to go in with a team to Paint and wall paper a home, and restore HOPE to a family . 

Day 10 

Making memories $25 a person 

I have been recently reminded how happy memories can sustain a person for years. For only $25 we can give a great memory to a child.  Bowling , movie, circus, ballet, museum's,  dinner out .. the possibilities are endless if we have the recourses  .

Day 11

Dental, Medical and eye glasses 

Many of those that we work with require medical assistance of one kind or another. We are connected with several organizations that will either provide free or reduced cost care , but we still face expenses that we do not have other means to cover .  The average need is between $50 to $100 a person for required treatment. 

Day 12 

Simple dreams  Impact a life for $100 or less.  

Day 12  NEEDS HAVE BEEN MET thank you 

This is the family of Sergei and Galya. volunteer at the community centre. Galya and I talked about her place for Christmas. She said she dreams of one day having a kitchen blender. $30

Our head teacher of the school  for children with disabilities and special needs  Natalya . She dreams of a new oven. True, her dream is a little more than 50 dollars.  She always bakes and tries to treat everyone. She bakes on her old oven, but dreams of a new big one. $100

This is Christina, she works at a boarding school.  She is a former student of a school we have worked with.   Her dream is dishes, she has nothing at all. Therefore, she dreams of a set of pots. and dishes  $50

This is our  Alexander. His dream is a set of tools. He does a lot of repair work and dreams of buying his own personal instrument.  $100

Adilet & Altinay 

When they were just one and two  years old, their dad went to prison.. Mom left them and went to live in Turkey, forgot forever that she had children in Kyrgyzstan.  The children were orphans. The Grandmother adopted them. .. Now in there little family has a problem. The Grandmother has cancer even no money for surgery ,and cant buy gifts for children.  Any money they do have has been going to cover regular surgeries for Adilet after a saver burn when he was a baby.   Both kids need some winter clothes and Adilet would like a toy truck and Altinay would like a big doll. 2 x $50

This lady is the cook at a boarding school for children with disabilities.  She would like an electric pasta cutter .. When you make pasta by hand for 40 kids on a regular basis, this would be a great blessing . $45

My name is Asiren and my brother is Ranit. I am 9 years old and he is 8..We live with my mother  and soon we will have two twin brothers. Unfortunately, Dad abandoned us this year. We had nowhere to live. A woman gave us a house to live, but someone climbed into the houses when we were not there and burn all. but Mom can't buy warm clothes for us and toys,..... she works as a waitress , earns for us food.. My brother and I have a dream warm clothes and a warm winter jacket, warm shoes. I also  have my dream. I want a cell phone so that my mother can call us and my brother would like a RC car.  $100 and $60

Down load this image and print it out to put in a gift card for that hard to shop for person.

Every year we finish off the catalogue with a BIG ASK for the
farm.  This spring when we reopen the yurts on the last week of April, we would like to do some landscaping, some stone walks and retaining walls and make an out door cooking area for when we have large groups.  As well as repair & upkeep the old yurts we would also like to put up a Banya ( Sauna )  yurt.   We would also like to fence in the soccer field and plant some shade trees.  This total project will be about $6000 ..This may take more then one of you, and you can be a part.    But here is the big ask .. along with raising the project money, we are looking for couples or individuals who would like to come to the farm and help us with this undertaking.   Whether you would like to come for One week up to One Month , We have a spot for you.