As fighting in eastern Ukraine has increased, the work for peace has strengthened. Sixteen teens were chosen among hundreds who applied, to gather for three days of intensive Peacemaking Training which was sponsored paid for by the Minor Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. Our role was in helping to lead it. For that, This Child Herejoined staff from the Quaker Program, Alternatives to Violence and fund in Kiev, Children of Hope. In the game above,... to continue reading

It's Saturday, February 11th. Yulia and I are in Odessa, Ukraine where it is 18 degrees Farenheit and much of what we walk on are sheets of ice. We return to the states, March 27th. The important news, though, is our Project Manager for This Child Here, Alla Soroka, has been chosen by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to be one of 2017's twelve International Peacemakers. Since 1984 the Presbyterian Church (USA) has hosted over 250 International Peacemakers from 60 countries, p