We train families with orphans: foster families, families of origin and extended families. About 90% of orphans have a parent somewhere. Our hope is to get kids back into healthy families. When COVID came to Ukraine, the government sent about half the children home......

The Reconciliation Project

You know, one of our hopes is to get every child out of an orphanage and into a home: family of origin, then extended family, and then foster family, far better choices than an institution.

When COVID-19 hit. The government feared the virus in...

Not many have died from the Coronavirus. As of 20 hours ago, 17 have died and 670 are infected. But already the country is taking strong measures: quarantine, businesses, schools, and all non grocery stores are closed. 

At  the present time, we are unable to train fami...

Click on the links below and you will see how young boys are being trained by nationalists in Ukraine and Russia. It's not just how to shoot guns. It's permission to kill. 

We do a different kind of training. We train teens to work for peace. It's not just how...

Natalia, a Children's Services worker, whose face, I believe, captures both hope and joy, holds a child being cared for by a foster family. Natalia and this foster family were trained by staff and funds from THIS CHILD HERE as the country moves steadily toward UKRAINE...

Christina teaches dance at our Peace Camp for families displaced by the war. If I tip my laptop screen back I see her as a dark shape against a blue oval on the screen. It's dramatic. Below, I am standing with a few boys at our Peace Camp last summer. They also have a...

This has not been an easy year.

An illness last fall put me behind in fundraising for This Child Here, and I am still trying to catch up.
 

A renter in our home in Atlanta quit paying. That has been a drain on finances.
 

I am close to finishing my book, but as those of y...

When time flies so fast that you try to remember at least some little things. When I’m ready to give up everything that was and will be only for what is now. When you forget about the phone for the whole day, although you usually can’t live without it for five minutes....

They learn by doing. 

They talk 

they listen 

they work in groups 

they laugh 

they think 

they agree 

and disagree  

 they lay aside emotion, fear, and prejudice.

 They look at you for who you are.

They pick up the tools needed 

to help themselves and ot...