Another bunch of lovely moments and memories we are happy to share with you.

Last week the two new volunteers from Dublin landed in Cherven orphanage to spend their time with the children. Carol and Dean barely knew each other before they came but to us they seemed best buddies. It’s amazing how fast they settled in and got to work with children and young adults in the orphanage.

The week was simply fabulous. They got to meet almost all children in most Units, used multi-sensory room to its full extent, spent evenings with older boys and girls, with lads in independent living Unit, met lovely children in the isolations Unit, did a cooking session at their local kitchen with the teacher, and simply had so much fun with the children.

Of course they bought lots of things for the orphanage: plates, colouring books, crayons, sweets, wool and embroidery stuff, etc. Also they brought from Ireland lots of clothes and some toys.

We always wonder how it will feel for the new people to be here, how they will react towards children and all our Belarusian reality, but we must confess that we hardly remember anyone who was leaving Belarus with bad impressions. And these two people were not an exception. The kindness and affection they showed the children was just amazing, and they were going back to Ireland making plans on what they can do and what they can bring when they come back here next time! And that’s an achievement, but sure how can anyone be indifferent to the children that they have spent the whole week with? And we are sure that Carol and Dean will be back, and we, on our hand will be happy to see them again!

Thank you very much again and again! 

Alena Martsyanava

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