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It is a great joy to see our friends and partners serving orphans in different European countries come together to share their knowledge and experience with each other! Alliance for Romania Without Orphans organised a TBRI (Trust-based relational intervention) Camp for children and their parents. YWAM Ukraine and Poland was invited to participate as well as teach about Emotional Intelligence at the camp. Ukraine Appeal Fund was able to support three Ukrainian participants to join the event. Read below their thoughts after the camp.

Six years ago, long before anyone thought about a war in Ukraine, Nina, from the Chmelnyzky Region, felt called by the Lord to start a centre to help vulnerable children. She left her old job and started to teach English, in order to be freer to do ministry. At the same time she started looking for a place to rent to open the centre.

For many years Tanja had been leading three houses in Serbia for young adults leaving orphanages and foster care at age 18. Most of these young adults enter life unprepared with all its challenges of finding a job, a place to live, and to handle finances. For Tanja it was clear, that a change was needed.

Read here a brief overview on how Friendship cards, a tool for teaching emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills, has been used to serve children and families at risk through YWAM Poland. Data from May 2022 to May 2023.

Most of us would go out of our way to improve the life of one vulnerable child. Imagine being able to impact the lives of thousands of children in Africa?