Camp
Children must be happy
September 29 Nadya and I were invited to attend the Cross- Regional Conference on “Fostering: problems and achievements”, organized by the Committee of Education of the Leningrad region and held at the Great Hall of the regional government.
Elena Spasskaya, the chairman deputy started by saying that for five years in the Leningrad region the number of foster families has sufficiently increased and it has been a positive trend.
One of the [...]
Visiting Peter and Leah
It was a great visit at Peter and Leah’s family home last week. We specified our camp plans and checked the beautiful church building that’s in progress of being built. See the pictures below.
Preparing to Send Children to Estonia!
We are looking forward to helping Love Russia UK run a camp in Estonia this summer. We will send about 55 foster children and orphans to the camp in August.
Alex, Jacqui and camp leader Debbie are visiting Estonia at the end of March to look at the site and make some decisions prior to the [...]
Elama — A Look Back and Forward
Here is a Before and After slideshow of Camp Elama. It’s great to see so much life and growth there.
This Saturday we’ll host a pilot ecological program, an ecologist from the UK will teach children from a shelter in the city. In November, a local church will run a youth sports camp. So, the work [...]
Summer Pavilion by St. James team
St. James’ building team has successfully completed the summer pavilion building project at camp Elama. In spite of weather change, mosquito bites, health issues, struggles with the local saw mill it is done and done! As John Bull formulated it at good bye dinner, Allen Amason as a team leader [...]
Camp Elama
Camp Elama is slowly thawing out; Spring is here, yet the snows remain and our work preparing for the summer has begun. We have a good leadership team in place and exciting plans for the summer.
Back in December Sergei and John laid foundations for two new buildings, and in May [...]
Visiting Teams
MIR is hosting several teams from the US who are serving in summer camps.
As always, we are happy to have these fun Americans visiting, and the camp directors and campers are very glad to know them.
At Camp Druznik, teams from San Antonio are working with orphans for the month of July. They were at this [...]