Our second Aid Shipment to Belarus will take place in July, we are very grateful to Storage King for their help in providing storage and sorting for us. Once this shipment has been delivered, it will mean the total donated aid reaches the two tonne mark!

We have now sent a number of ‘practical’ teams across to Belarus to help with various renovation and building projects – some of these projects involve helping families to prepare their homes ready to receive foster Children -as well as carrying out repairs to the new Top Kids Family Centre. 

The latest team have just got back this month – where the main project was replacing a rotten wooden floor with a concrete one (and all with no ready-mix lorry!)

Our next team is due to visit in September 2011.

In April this year we sent our first ‘all female’ team to Belarus.  The 6 ladies – all from Gloucester – stayed at the Top Kids ‘Family Centre’ where they were involved in organising an event designed to honour the hard work of around 25 of the foster mothers supported by Top Kids.  For many of these mothers this will have been their only ‘day-off’ all year (if not longer!).

Our team were also involved in distributing some of the aid shipped by One Community last October – they also visited a local Government Children’s Centre (‘Priot’) where they were able to spend time playing with the children.