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Celebrating your compassion!
You’ll love this party! The perfect way to end the year! Widen your browser to enjoy the photos fully. Thanks for journeying with...
Doug Brendel
Dec 26, 20171 min read
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Brimming!
I am brimming with pride and joy! Generous friends of New Thing have FULLY FUNDED the children’s ward at Shumilina Hospital in Belarus!...
Doug Brendel
Dec 19, 20171 min read
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Worst beds in the world?
I’ve never seen such awful beds, in any children’s institution in Belarus, as I saw in the old hospital at Shumilina (“shoe ME lean uh”),...
Doug Brendel
Dec 11, 20171 min read
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Keep the children out!
Greetings from Belarus! Here are the beautiful children in the “little home” that New Thing built in Zhodino! Widen your browser to enjoy...
Doug Brendel
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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Awesome news!
Greetings from Karl Marx Street! I am thrilled to report that a total of 30 friends gave to provide basic meds for the disabled children...
Doug Brendel
Nov 28, 20171 min read
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Short of meds
Hi again! I’m grateful for the 7 friends who have donated a total of $1,025 toward medicines and other basics for the disabled children...
Doug Brendel
Nov 14, 20171 min read
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For Thanksgiving … meds?
What will we do for Thanksgiving? Same question, every year. What for dinner? Who’ll be at the table? But for me, Thanksgiving isn’t just...
Doug Brendel
Nov 6, 20172 min read
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Welcome to Planet Summer Camp!
Your love is making its mark! Check out these photos from a summer camp for the “children of Chernobyl.” Widen your browser for enjoy the...
Doug Brendel
Oct 24, 20171 min read
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Where the kids don’t like me
Actually, the big kids were OK with me. It was the little kids who were a bit freaked out by the strange American in the beard. Some cool...
Doug Brendel
Oct 17, 20171 min read
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Favorite, favoriter, favoritest!
Hi again! I think you’re going to love meeting the beautiful children from Osipovichi. (That’s oh-see-POE-vee-chee, if you want to...
Doug Brendel
Oct 10, 20171 min read
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A place at the table
Thank you to all who gave to provide chairs for the boarding school at Rudensk! The mentally disabled children, and the workers who are...
Doug Brendel
Oct 5, 20171 min read
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Closing in
We’re closing in on our goal of providing 30 new chairs for the children’s programs. Giving this gift will really mean a lot to the...
Doug Brendel
Oct 1, 20171 min read
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Thrown-away children
The children are beautiful at Rudensk. 130 orphans with mental disabilities. Each one either abandoned or abused by their parents. They...
Doug Brendel
Sep 28, 20171 min read
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Stunned and grateful
I was stunned to receive a message from the chargé d’affaires for the Republic of Belarus in Washington D.C. (standing in for the...
Doug Brendel
Sep 21, 20171 min read
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Happy birthday to New Thing!
Time to celebrate! I never dreamed, when New Thing was officially born 15 years ago this week, that we would have the joy of...
Doug Brendel
Aug 29, 20171 min read
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Love doing dishes?
Greetings to all who follow or support New Thing! You just made some kitchen workers SO HAPPY in the former USSR! Here are a few...
Doug Brendel
Aug 1, 20171 min read
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Celebrating!
Summer greetings! Great news: The government of Belarus bestowed a tremendous honor on our “Response of the Heart” team in Minsk,...
Doug Brendel
Jul 12, 20172 min read
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Graduation Day for our orphan friends!
Remember the orphans of the “Children’s Village” at Kobryn? The ones that friends like you provided “life starter kits” for? They’ve made...
Doug Brendel
Jun 26, 20171 min read
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Homeless, poor – but LOVED
I’m smiling! I’ve been to our soup kitchen for the homeless and poor, in Minsk. Here are a few photos. They please me very much. (Widen...
Doug Brendel
Jun 6, 20171 min read
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Launched with love!
Greetings from Belarus…. 10 orphans are very, very happy today! I’ve delivered the “college starter kits” provided through the generosity...
Doug Brendel
May 30, 20171 min read
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