December 2011 Outreach

 Hello Everyone!!!

We are home from our "speed trip" to Mukachevo, Ukraine.  We arrive 2AM Friday morning in Mukachevo...after 17 hours flight and 6 hours van drive from Budapest to Mukachevo...... :-) Slept for little bit and 10am we dri

ve to Mukachevo Gypsy Camp . All kids was sooooo happy to see us......and only 5 kids from 200 was wearing winter jacket from last year... :-)  We work very hard and dress up 112 gypsy orphans on Friday with warm jacket, hats and gloves ...some of them also receive warm pants and blankets donated by Blanket Ministry (Calvary Community Church) 

On Saturday we dress up the rest of the soup kitchen children... about 230 total... so much more than we had this past summer... the food from our soup kitchen is often the only meal they have. Sometime the specific jacket from you was small or to big..so we change it... please forgive me for that... we did it because all the children will wear the jackets all winter and size is very important. Sometime the kids swipe the jackets between each other... :-) but all soup kitchen kids was warm and ready for winter... THANKS to YOU!

On Saturday we also visit the NEW house for the "baby with flies"... When we enter the house... I was crying the whole time... so emotional for me... all kids CLEAN and HEALTHY... HUGE change... simply amazing change! When the grandma saw me... she also start crying... so joyful!!!  Afternoon  half of our little team was working with the kids on Christmas cards for you...and me, Josef (our photographer) and Doty from Calvary interview the family in the NEW house... we are making video for all of you so you can also enjoy the "moment"- this happen because of your love and care!!!

On Sunday we visit Chomonin camp... rescue a little puppy from abandoned shack... :-) (can't help it) and Christina visit her little boy Stephan. She is sponsoring Stephan more than one year... what a joy to see them both face to face!!! He was soooooooo surprise and overwhelmed ...and happy!!! :-)

On Sunday afternoon we visit second biggest camp BEREGOVO .There is a opportunity to build also Soup Kitchen for local orphans (about 100 ). My heart was broken again to see all the kids without jackets... shivering... hungry... almost same picture when I saw the Mukachevo orphans the very first time.  We take photos of all the Beregovo orphans and hopefuly add them to the child sponsorship . I am preparing to send email news letter and will update the website again with more news about the Beregovo camp.

On Sunday evening we was driving back to Budapest...and back home to California... :-) We took about 1000 photos!!! We have photos of all kids with jackets... :-) We will be putting them on our site hopefully this week and I will also email you individually photos of your sponsored child.  

Stay tuned for more emails and a website update....coming very soon!

Thank you so very much for all your support and care...this will never happened without you.. :-)

Merry Christmas! 

Vendy and Team Gypsy Kids