Projects and Trip Plans - April, 2004
Please feel free to earmark your contribution for any one of the projects listed below.
Two of the detskii dom graduates who have been a couple for four years have made plans to marry and take responsibility for his family and the Kotov home in Podporozhe. Their plan is to repair the house and bring the young man's seventeen year old sister to live there with them at first. There are still four younger Kotov children at the detskii dom who they will welcome into the home as they have resources to support them. I have written to them about how they must describe in detail their plans for repairing the house to make it safe to live in. I said that if they had that detailed description written up for me when I arrived, I would help them. $400 – 700.
I want to be able to give them a nice wedding celebration as well. $50 - 75.
One of the eldest of our young friends, who has finished the army and finally gotten his papers in order to go to university to study law, is an experienced carpenter with three years of carpentry trade school to his credit and he has agreed to go with me to Podporozhe to make an assessment of the plans and possibilities and to go with the eldest brothers in the family to buy the tools and materials they need. I will need to pay his travel expenses and pay him for his services as well as give him something to get started at university. $200 - 300.
One of the older girls has written asking for the tools and supplies she needs in order to study to be a manicurist. This is a good plan for her and it will take so little to buy her what she needs to get started. She also needs to rent a place to stay for the summer. $300.
The eldest of two sisters who have graduated from the detskii dom in recent years has been practicing with the fabric paints we gave her last fall and is ready to begin turning out original art t-shirts to sell outside one of the museums in St Petersburg on weekends. Her work is so lovely and she is so determined to succeed that I'm planning to bring her an assortment of nice cotton t-shirts to paint. $300.
The younger of the two sisters is studying web design. She is making such a concerted effort to educate herself and evolve into a cultured woman that the change in her is wonderful. I have promised her that if she keeps doing well in her studies and if she will do the research into what hardware she needs and where to get it, I will buy her the computer equipment she needs to succeed in school. $600.
One of our young friends, a refugee from an area still in conflict, has gotten married and is expecting a baby in April. She’ll need baby clothes, a car seat and a stroller. $200.
There are about 20 children
over 15 years old who are still in a trade school or community college in and
around
Your contribution, of
whatever size, will do so much good for these young people.
One by one, they are becoming responsible, productive citizens of
Children of Sosnovaya Street
PO Box 22957
Seattle, WA 98122-0957