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Project LifeStart Odessa: February 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Despite some hiccups and bumps, work on Project LifeStart is carrying on nicely. We've readjusted some of our plans and the project timeline so that we can keep on carrying on. A big part of these last months has been to roll with the punches, improvise, and adjust. And so, we have a long road ahead, but we are moving along it! Our Life Skills Team has finished the first rough draft of the curriculum! Most excitingly, we are beginning to plan the training trips! This is that...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: Happy New Year!
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Friday, January 6, 2012. Wishing you a very Happy New Year from all the LifeStart Project staff! 2011 has been a very good year overall for Project LifeStart Odessa, full of many accomplishments! Project materials were completed with the help of teams of excellent volunteers, WHU staff were trained, and the project launched! Our life skills teachers are now teaching in three orphanages in the Odessa region. Two were late started due to a chicken pox quarantine! On a positive note, however, it was a pleas...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Tough Stuff and Fun Stuff. The house: Rick, Maxim, Sergiy, Ira, Alexei, Igor, Dima, Marina, Anita, and Dina. On a lighter note, we were able to visit an orphanage and do some work there. It was good for the life skills teachers to see the place where they will be working. We also enjoyed a road trip and some fun. Here Cathy is having a wild time at the orphanage. Team Foster Care work through some heavy material at the orphanage. Labels: Foster Care Pilot. Tuesday, June 28, 2011.
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Project LifeStart Odessa: A Study
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Monday, November 7, 2011. We are currently doing a study comparing girls who have transitioned directly from the orphanages to independent living and girls who have lived in Hope House, a transition home for you women run by World Hope Ukraine and World Hope Canada. Yulia and Veronika outside their dorm in Odessa. The girls mentioned they eat no breakfast, have a plain bun and coffee for lunch, and soup or oatmeal for supper. They eat meat maybe once a week and said they never buy fruit because it is...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: Changes
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012. And here, we think the winter is a slow and sleepy time, when in actual fact, life is racing along, bring all kinds of twists and turns and changes! A spurt of cold weather in Odessa (yes, even cold by Canadian standards! Has caused the closure of two of the orphanages in which WHU staff work. At the moment, the orphanages have closed for one week. Our staff are hoping to get back to their regular schedule and time with the kids by next week! Labels: Foster Care Pilot.
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Project LifeStart Odessa: February 2012
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012. And here, we think the winter is a slow and sleepy time, when in actual fact, life is racing along, bring all kinds of twists and turns and changes! A spurt of cold weather in Odessa (yes, even cold by Canadian standards! Has caused the closure of two of the orphanages in which WHU staff work. At the moment, the orphanages have closed for one week. Our staff are hoping to get back to their regular schedule and time with the kids by next week! Labels: Foster Care Pilot.
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Project LifeStart Odessa: January 2012
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Friday, January 6, 2012. Wishing you a very Happy New Year from all the LifeStart Project staff! 2011 has been a very good year overall for Project LifeStart Odessa, full of many accomplishments! Project materials were completed with the help of teams of excellent volunteers, WHU staff were trained, and the project launched! Our life skills teachers are now teaching in three orphanages in the Odessa region. Two were late started due to a chicken pox quarantine! On a positive note, however, it was a pleas...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: Ongoing Partnership
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Friday, November 4, 2011. Having launched the pilot three months ago and with increasing interest from the Canadian International Development Agency, another trip was in order. This trip consists of Sheldon, Project LifeStart Odessa's Project Manager, and myself, Andrea, coming to work more with World Hope Ukraine and see for ourselves how things are settling in. The trip was inspired by our CIDA Project Officer, who wanted to come and see the project as well! This Sunday was no exception :). We were als...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: May 2011
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Monday, May 16, 2011. Wrapping Up and Winding Up. Our volunteer teams have been working very hard this past term. We are at last in the final stages of developing the pilot programs! Here is a brief updates on what Team LifeStart has been up to! The Life Skills Team has been working very hard in developing the curriculum. This proved to be a mighty task. However, with teamwork and lots of effort, we pulled it off! We are now able to take a short breathe before gearing up for the training week! And so, th...
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Project LifeStart Odessa: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Another Phase to Project LifeStart Odessa. It has been two months since our teams from Canada worked with teams in Ukraine to get Project LifeStart Odessa up and running. The training weeks have brought a different pace to the project and a new set of activities. After months of research, compiling, and writing, we have completed our two reports. One report, At-Risk Youth in Odessa: Opportunities and Challenges,. We have had another interesting development with the onset of...