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“New Year’s fairy tale”.

The New Year’s celebration is most awaited time by kids. It is the time of miracles and gifts, congrats and pleasant surprises. Despite of tense war situation the pilgrims prepared the charity project “The New Year’s fairy tale”. 

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Retro autumn of the pilgrims

In “Republic Pilgrim” the fall ball in retro style took place. The main purpose of this event was to help the guys to open their potential, to have a talent contest as well as to congratulate the staff of the center on the Teacher’s Day.

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Around the world on bikes for the sake of orphans – for them to find families.

The team from Mariupol travel around Europe to attract the attention to street kids. The bike action was initiated by the priest of the Pentecostal church Gennadiy Mokhnenko. He went to the worldwide bike tour alongside with his adopted kids. “It is so unfair because there is a thousand of families for each orphan in our country” – states Gennadiy Mokhnenko who is the adoptive father of 32 kids and 3 biological ones.

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Latvia must become a country without orphans

At the end of this week the group of cyclists rode into Riga within the worldwide journey under the motto” The world without orphans”. All of them are former street kids who once were fostered by the pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko – the founder of the largest in the countries of CIS children’ rehab center “Republic Pilgrim”. As the priest shared in the interview to the program of the Latvian radio 4 “ day by day” his purpose here is to debunk the myths and stereotypes about adoption that exist in the Latvian society

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The former drug addict from Mariupol shares a story of how he was saved twice and saw different life

The issue of drug addiction hasn’t disappeared from the streets of Mariupol. Just like it was in 90-s the category of people who smoke different substances, use injective drugs or other substances provoking addiction is still present today. This dark side of life is known only to very narrow category of specialist such as doctors, policemen, pastors of churches and relatives of addicted people.

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The second edition of the book about former street kids “Non pedagogical poem” has been issued in Ukraine

The book is written on the basis of real stories of lives of street kids. Its goal is to give the readers opportunity to rethink their attitude to little vagabonds and to encourage them to be direct partakers of good changes in their lives.  Each chapter of “Non pedagogical poem” is accompanied with caricatures that illustrate a story happened to kids in “Republic Pilgrim”.

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The way from illiterate street kid to the choreographer.

10 – year-old Alexey (the name is changed) got to Pilgrim with severe educational neglect. He couldn’t focus, couldn’t express his thought, he could barely read and was hardly socially adapted. Within the two years in Pilgrim the boy has gained dreams, goals and desire to successfully accomplish them.

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The first real Christmas for the former street kids.

The Christmas and the New Year’s vacation starting with the St. Nikolai’s day is truly a magic time. But many kids from the Republic Pilgrim in their lives where their experienced much suffering had no idea what the celebration meant. This is why such holidays are so emphasized here.

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