Did you know?

Russia - there are over 20,000 children in the jails in Russia
there are over 1,000,000 streeet children - with no residence - living in abanded buildings and stealing to
survive - eventually they end up in jail - Most of these children come from the orphanages - and at 14
they cannot stay in the orphanage any longer - so they begin their life on the street - most of them do
not have parents or have any relatives who wish to take care of them.

China-Vietnam border - city opf Manshan, Guanangxi province
A number of years ago we provided the money required to register this orphanage with the government
which was $ 500cad - the House of Hope was established under a dear friend - Dora Tweksbury.
Today - I have just learned that she has opened another home in the same area - and her vision is to
open 1 girls home and 1 boys home - and expand her dream to eventually open more homes.
This little Chinese lady has a great dream and as she continues to touch orphans in western China,
we are looking forward to what we can do to assist her.

China/Tibet Border - the city of Qinhai- had a young couple (Doctor and his wife)- just married in July 2007 -
go and begin to work with children - in just a few months - it became evident that this couple -
Chinese man and Tibetan woman,would quickly make inroads into the hearts of teenagers - and now they have
established a home for teens who have no parents and basically have been orphans most of their lives.
The city officals, is happy to have a doctor in their city and they have trusted the children
into their care of this couple. My friends from Hong Kong are planning a trip up to this city to assist
this couple and find out what their needs are.