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June 2007

Good News and a Challenge:
A Shelter Home in Yekaterinburg, Russia!

Mission Possible has been working on the streets of Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountain area in Russia since 2004.

There is no place to go for street children and teens who are substance abusers. - This is why a shelter home is so needed.

March 2007

Prisoner of the Tunnel

Kolya is one in a group of homeless boys who live in an underground pipe tunnel.

He had a terrifying experience when he woke up and realized that the hatch of the tunnel had been welded shut and he remained inside!

>This story that takes you to the streets of Odessa, Ukraine to see the life of homeless children.

February 2007 Article

Reaching Asbest, the city of asbestos

Shelter Home changes the lives of young mothers and children

> Read about Asbest, the city of the asbestos mine, and about our work for rescuing street children and homeless mothers with children.

A mother and a child on the dark highway:

> Irina found a new direction at the shelter home

January 2007 Article

"Help! She is Giving Birth!"

Our street patrol found Oxana and her mother a couple of years ago on the streets of Moscow. For many years, alcohol and the street had been the whole life for them. Now their life has totally changed and Oxana is a worker at our drug rehabilitation center!

> Read what happened when Oxana was visiting Moscow and riding a bus !

December 7, 2006

The new kids of the Moscow shelter home:
We don't have to be afraid any more! > Read the story

The little boy who cannot speak.

His mother would tie Nikita to bed when she went out – sometimes for days at a time. The neighbors heard the child cry and tried to help.

Zlata's story is that of a typical street child:

Alcohol broke her home, the new stepfather was violent. Losing the apartment sent Zlata and her mother to the streets. They stayed at the railway and metro stations. That is where our street patrol found the girl.

December 5,.2006

Ukraine, Odessa:

The Brothers
> Read the shocking story of a poisoned boy

The street patrol continuously encounters tragical life situations and does everything possible to help the children.

December 5,.2006

Ekaterinburg:
Arisen from the cellar! > Read the article about the rescued boys!

Aleksey was not a hopeless case after all!
Both the relatives and the police thought Aleksey was a hopeless case. He is a fatherless, homeless boy, whose mother is an alcoholic. Aleksey was seriously addicted to alcohol and glue, his conduct was at times irresponsible, at times apathetic. It was hard to reach the introverted boy.

Changed Ilya surprised the boys at the day center
Two years ago, we were introduced to Ilya, a 12-year-old boy who ended up on the streets. He lived downtown in a cellar, whose boys we started to help. Ilya never parted with his glue bag. ”The first thing we see in the morning is Ilya sniffing glue,” the boys from the cellar told. Ilya did admit being severely addicted to the glue.

December 5,.2006

St. Petersburg: Day activities start for street children start again

In October we started again day activities for street children and teens attending the street patrol. Once a week we rent for this a sports facility. We will be developing the day activities which enable more effective help to the street children. The age of these children is 14 or older.

Day center activities were discontinued for a year and a half when we moved from the previous facility to the shelter home.

December 5,.2006

Yaroslavl farm:

Sergey - a drug user at rehabilitation: "This is my last chance!"

We got to know Sergey two years ago at the railway station in Moscow . He was 17 years old then. Dirty, ragged, wearing broken boots, runny nose. His eyes were empty and desperate, a chasm before him. Today things are differently, he is on our Yaroslavl farm in rehabilitation.

> Read Sergey's story!

The whole village rejoiced for the good harvest at Yaroslavl farm:
Crops were donated to local residents

This past spring we endoubled the carrot fields on our Yaroslavl farm. The good growing seasong resulted in a double harvest, 600 tons of carrots and also the potato harvest was excellent. All storages are packed and there wasn't room for the last carrots.

We decided invite the residents of the nearby village pick carrots. They joyfully collected 10 tons of carrots.

The activities of the farm and rehabiltiation center are mainly financed through the sale of crops.

Sept. 4,.2006

Lena and Roman, two young people who were rescued from the street and drugs through our ministry, said “I do” in a wonderful wedding service held at our Moscow shelter home.

> Read article

August 4,.2006

Regular support to street children's shelter home in Asbest (Ural mountain area, Russia)

In the summer of 2006 Mission Possible began to provide partial financial support for the Christian street children's shelter home in the town of Asbest, located at 40 kilometers from on of our target cities, Ekaterinburg. One of the founders and workers of the home is Oleg Popov (on the right on the picture) who with his wife Tanya served many years as foster parent of our Moscow shelter home.

The shelter in Asbest houses 25 children and 17 homeless mothers. Children from our Ekaterinburg street patrol have also been housed there. The home has suffered from a continuing lack of resources. Through our partial monthly support we want to easify and develop the good work that the home has been doing.

27.7.2006

The children from our three shelter homes spend their summer on the country

The children of the Moscow and St. Petersburg shelter homes have spent their sunny summer on our Yaroslavl farm. Also the children of the Krasnoyarsk home have been on the counryside while intensive renovation work is going on at the shelter home building.

2006-06-13

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“I love you, Uncle Ignat!”

A phone call from Natasha - a girl who was rescued from the stret and lived many years in our Moscow shelter home - brings back many memories.

Even if she was the only child we were able to get off the streets in the past 10 years, all the work and effort would have been worth it! But there have been hundreds more!

2006-02-14

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I survided - but I wonder how they do

I just came back from a trip to Russia. During the two weeks of travel, the temperature kept at -31-49F. (-30-45C)

People ask me how I survived the trip - but I have to ask myself how the people who live there survive, and how the homeless children survive!

> Read article

Hopeless father pushed the baby
carriage day and night!
— Encounter with Street Patrol changed everything!

Little Christina is safe now. Read the story how street patrol found her!

2006-02-02

Christmas gift campaign in Ukraine

Every Christmas for many years Mission Possible in Odessa, Ukraine, has carried out a Christmas gift distribution campaign during which tens of thousands of gift packets are distributed to street children and children in orphanages. The gifts are prepared by Samaritan's Purse, Mission Possible takes care fo the distribution.

Especially appreciated the gifts are on the streets. These three brothers who received gifts live in underground heating pipe tunnels in Odessa.

Several new children taken to the Moscow shelter home
During November-December 2005, new children were housed in our shelter home in Moscow. There are now 22 children. Christina, who is just 1 year and a half, lived homeless with her father at the railway station and streets. She is now safe in the shelter home while the father is looking for a job

New articles from Moscow:
> The hearts of Gennadiy and Marina beat for children
> Where is she today - Lena

Nine boys at drug rehabilitiation in Ekaterinburg
Mission Possbile's street patrol led by Natasha Ivanova has placed several youths from the street to Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The results are very promising. The first boy, Sasha, has become a Christian and is planning to soon start studies in a Bible school when hie rehabiltation year ends. He has been helping the center in taking care of the newcomers.
> Read more about the work in Ekaterinburg!

Shelter home building purchased in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mission Possible runs in the cold Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk a shelter home for street children. It has been operating in two small apartments. In 2005 we found a suitable building, but the paper work took over six months. Now wer are finished with the purchase project and can prepare the new facilities for childrens!
> Read more about the work in Krasnoyarsk!

A dying drug addict girl rescued in Odessa

> Read the sad story about how Lyuba - as many other children - ended up on the streets and how she became a drug addict.

> Read more about the work in Odessa.