Lately the project directed to help orphans have been created. More and more Christian families adopt orphaned kids. But what if a child has no chance to be adopted because they are either addicts already or have AIDS? They have been living on the street for a long time. They forget whet the family, clean bed and normal food mean. All they have is a habitual terror of basements, polyethylene sack with some glue and decaying wounds caused by dirty syringes… And what if they are only 8, 10, 12 years old or maybe 5 or 6… And they are already street kids.
On of these days the star of basketball Richard O’Quinn, and nowadays the legionary in the team “Azovmash”, has visited the center of children’s rehabilitation “Republic “ Pilgrim”. The guys were staring at the giant from below upwards, the future champions need positive patterns.
The team of the leaders of the Charity Fund “ Pilgrim” started from Mariupol to Russia, where in the city Tihoretsk one of the first rehab centers has been functioning for 7 years already. The first man on rehab in the fund “ pilgrim” and now the leader of one of the largest in Russia rehab centers for alcoholics and drug addicts “Way to God” Grigoriy Kalinichenko hosted the guests from his second Fatherland – Ukraine.
In 2001 in the village Novoromanovskaya, Krasnodarsky Krai, Russia the charity fund “Pilgrim” had started the rehab ministry. “It had begun with the revelation, - the Principle of the center tells, - in which God ordered to me to start the ministry to people like I had been before. The former addicted left for Russia with the thought that his former criminal enemies will kill him in Russia.
In Donetsk the representatives of different confessions discussed the problems of HIV/AIDS and the ways of overcoming the epidemics in Ukraine. The public is certain that churches are the great potential and a huge resource which can actively participate in the struggle against the plague of the 21st century. The Charity Fund “Pilgrim” which has been dealing with rehabilitation for over 11 years already and this work includes HIV+ people, also took part in the round table.
The street kids who got to the center of children’s rehabilitation “ Republic “ Pilgrim”, unfortunately, quit their bad habits not immediately. So in one of the trip of pilgrims to the theatre 3 charms were stolen from the trading tray of the hall of the Theater of Drama. It has resulted in the court over the thieves.
In one of “busy” Mondays about a hundred young people of the Church of Good Changes assembled for the next God Change Party. This time bowling was in program. Adrenaline read off scale.
