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Young volunteers help distribute Christmas Love boxes - Moldova

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Teenage volunteers from Norway have been working hard in the warehouse in Chisinau, Moldova this week in preparation for Operation Christmas Love. There is such passion and commitment from young people responding to the needs of so many at Christmas in Eastern Europe...

Operation Christmas Love - Romania Update

Monday, 5 December 2016

Teams of dedicated volunteers in Romania have been working hard packing the Christmas Love boxes ready for distribution. Here is what they said...

Update on Operation Cover Up 2016

Monday, 17 October 2016

Another fantastic effort from all the contributors, including knitters, volunteers, sorters and counters, coordinators, logistics helpers and many, many others. The first 40-foot container has already reached The Netherlands and has been unloaded at our logistics agents. The second one will a...

FOR KNITTERS: Cut off dates

Thursday, 16 June 2016

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For Operation Cover Up Coordinators

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

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Our June newsletter is available online

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

You can read our inFocus newsletter for June right here online. The main article tells of two young people from a State Children's Home in Ukraine who were deeply impacted by attending a summer camp and both now help with youth ministry...

Annual magazine

Monday, 9 May 2016

This year we feature the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident (26 April 1986) in Ukraine, and  what it means for a Ukrainian family struggling with serious health concerns in the aftermath. You can read the magazine below...

Chernobyl 30 years anniversary

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Ukraine remembers with sorrow (as do many others) the nuclear accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on 26 April 1986 that released radiation affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and nearby Belarus, Russia and further afield. Even today, thousands live with the after-effects...

FOR SUPPORTERS: Annual Donations Summary

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

If you are on our list of supporters who have requested an annual receipt for your giving, or if you are a child or family sponsor, we mailed out all the receipts on 22 April. You will receive yours in the next few days. If for some reason you don't get one by the end of April, please email us a...

Chernobyl Liquidator Shares His Story

Monday, 25 April 2016

It's 30 years since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor blew up, spewing radioactive gas into the air and blown throughout Europe over the following days...

Chernobyl 30 years on

Sunday, 24 April 2016

On 26 April, 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, blew itself apart, releasing a drifting cloud 400 times more radioactive than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The 45,000 inhabitants of Pripyat, beside the Power Plant, were evacuated 2 days afterwards, and the city now lies der...

April-May 2016 Bridge of Prayer

Friday, 1 April 2016

A copy has been posted to everyone on our NZ mailing list...

Latest news - empowering women

Monday, 29 February 2016

The home should be a safe place for all family members, but often instead of being a refuge, family violence makes it a place of fear and suffering, a silent Hell from which there is no escape. Change is possible. Facilitating emotional...

February 2016 newsletter

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

For thousands of people in Eastern Europe, daily life on the streets is about survival. One person whose life has radically changed since we first met him, is Oleg, in Moldova. You can read more of his story in our newsletter...

Bridge of Prayer

Monday, 1 February 2016

Our February to March 2016 Bridge of Prayer is here...

Bosnia - 20 years after Dayton

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

On the 14th December 1995, presidents Izetbegovic, Tudjman, and Milosevic, of Bosnia, Croatia and then-Yugoslavia, respectively, signed the Dayton Agreement in a small town in the US state of Ohio. The agreement marked the end of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War Two. 20 years on, we f...