Orphanage Outreach

We believe the most significant need that orphans in Ukraine and Russia have is for positive, on-going relationships with adult mentors that start while the children are still in the orphanage and continue with them through graduation from the orphanage and on into young adulthood. Therefore, our orphan programs are carefully designed to meet that need. These programs include:

Regular visits – 12-3-1 Mentors will visit select orphanages several times per month to conduct Bible-based studies and/or activities, games, and fellowship with the children. These interactions will initiate and strengthen the relationships between the orphan and the 12-3-1 Mentor, showing the orphan that someone does indeed love them, and cares enough to continue being their friend. It is our hope that trust will develop, allowing the orphan to share spiritual and social concerns with the 12-3-1 Mentor.

Visit to Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia

 

• Practical Skills Training – YouthReach International will offer life skills training opportunities for the orphans and at-risk children within our programs. This training includes the following options:
• Personal Finance classes to include saving, budgeting, negotiating, etc.
• Dating/Abstinence classes
• Substance Abuse classes
  
• Camps for orphans – YouthReach International will partner with orphanages and other partners to provide camp opportunities for children. These may be special camps just for the orphans, or it may be through sponsorships for children to attend a camp in which we are already scheduled to participate. While these camps are mostly during the summer, we offer special outreaches/camps during fall, winter, and spring as well.
  
• Orphanage Sponsorship – A church, business partner, or group, working through YouthReach International, sponsors one of the orphanages with which we work. Financial support from sponsors enables us to provide needed educational, emotional, environmental, medical, and spiritual support for the orphans. The sponsoring church provides Christmas, birthday gifts, and school supplies for the children and also visits “their” orphanage at least once per year. This program enables the regular mentoring listed above, with the 12-3-1 Mentors helping the children write letters back and forth to their sponsors, and serving as the connection point between the orphans, the sponsors, and our organization.