This is Anya. Look at her face and you see apprehension. It was my first photo of Anya. Gather 60 people in a camp designed to help families (in this case, foster families) learn how to raise children, and all will be nervous in the beginning. But after a time, people relax, get comfortable, and realize they might learn something. Through presentations, discussions and activities, families learn new ways, healthy ways to be a family. Anya, I learned is a brave and bright part

Like many places in America, rural Ukraine is a different world. There is no city water. If you don't have a well, you get your water, by car, motor scooter, or on foot. For single parent families, it's tough. We work with Christian aid agencies that bring food, medicine, and new clothes, but life is difficult. So we have expanded our program to help the families you see, above and below, those most at risk of losing kids to an orphanage, the poor living in rural areas. I use

In the first image, Ira, one of our trainers for foster families and Alla Soroka, our Project Manager pause for a photo at a recent refresher training for foster parents who were first trained two years ago. We brought in a specialist for the four-day event. These are parents who receive a higher level of training than the typical family that "just want's a child to call their own." These parents take difficult children and care for them for years. Further below, are images