http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/ News, analysis, and what it looks like from the inside by an expatriate American in Astana Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-92 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:37:07 +0100 http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-92 Aw, shucks, KZBlogger -- thanks for the link to Gulnara's and my site (News from the Caravan -- I write, it's her store). Blush blush. Aw, shucks, KZBlogger — thanks for the link to Gulnara’s and my site (News from the Caravan — I write, it’s her store). Blush blush.

]]> http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-91 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:33:44 +0100 http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-91 I've been a supporter of CCCP (way to go Kenny, Dessie & Marina!), and also of another project that focuses on support for orphanage kids after they "age-out" of the system; it is managed by an American adoption agency, World Partners. There is a Youth House in Almaty, and a sponsorship program in Uralsk. The money for each child goes into a fund for living expenses and college tuition, but many students have not had sponsors for long enough to build up more than a semester or two of support, so they are fund-raising to help keep these kids in college after their sponsorship funds run out. Like CCCP, it's faith-based but they don't proselytize (I wouldn't be involved if they did). Both foundations are amazing in what they have done, and can continue to do. http://www.worldpartnersadoption.org/project_ec.html I’ve been a supporter of CCCP (way to go Kenny, Dessie & Marina!), and also of another project that focuses on support for orphanage kids after they “age-out” of the system; it is managed by an American adoption agency, World Partners. There is a Youth House in Almaty, and a sponsorship program in Uralsk. The money for each child goes into a fund for living expenses and college tuition, but many students have not had sponsors for long enough to build up more than a semester or two of support, so they are fund-raising to help keep these kids in college after their sponsorship funds run out. Like CCCP, it’s faith-based but they don’t proselytize (I wouldn’t be involved if they did). Both foundations are amazing in what they have done, and can continue to do. http://www.worldpartnersadoption.org/project_ec.html

]]> http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-90 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:48:57 +0100 http://kazakhstan.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/helping-kazakhstani-orphans/#comment-90 Thank you very much for the blurb. If you ever find yourself down Karaganda way, let me know and I'll ask Marina Yurievna Turapina to show you around some of those youth houses. She's really the one to be admired, more than are we; she pretty much devotes her life to these kids and has done so for more than a decade now. Thank you very much for the blurb. If you ever find yourself down Karaganda way, let me know and I’ll ask Marina Yurievna Turapina to show you around some of those youth houses. She’s really the one to be admired, more than are we; she pretty much devotes her life to these kids and has done so for more than a decade now.

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