Can you ride a bike???? It’s a skill many of us probably take for granted. We learn as young children and never seem to forget. During a special development weekend, children from a Kazakhstan orphanage had the opportunity to learn to ride a bike. The director of the old-style pioneer…
- 0
Can you ride a bike? |
Tuesday, 26 July 2011 11:16 Written by Op Mercy Kazakhstan |
Look at me, I can almost ride a bike!
One young girl 9 years on. There is always a mad throng around us each time we visit Tumdi Orphanage. There are so many children and they are all desperate to have you touch their hand or hug them or simply to notice them. Despite the chaos though, there…
Special moments in the lives of orphans
Operation Mercy has been helping orphans in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan for the past 9 years. Our staff spend time with these beautiful children teaching ‘money math’, life skills and cooking, playing games at summer camps, doing craft, reading stories ... All the sorts of things you might do…
Despite the fact that camps run pretty much every summer, the kids seem no less excited with each passing year - It’s like being greeted by 65 eager puppies when we arrive every Monday morning at Tumdi for summer camps. We also seem to learn something new every year. This…
Aktobe Orphanages Programme
Institutionalised children need life skills to help them cope outside the walls of their orphanage. We are providing these valuable skills for orphanage children and encouraging others in the community to become involved in the lives of these children bereft of family care.
Hjälmarberget