Over 20 years ago, Rev. Robert Gamble, a Presbyterian minister, began working with orphans and street children in Ukraine. The country became independent from Russia in 1991.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion, his mission evolved to serve children of single parent families that had relocated from front line cities. Most of these children have grown up knowing only life in a country at war with the constant prospect of aerial attack.
One of the services his 501(C)(3), This Child Here, provides is short summer camps in nearby Romania at a public resort on the edge of the sea.
His work for these weeklong visits is assisted with American volunteers.
The video shows the activities, the personalities and the faces of both the adults and the children who are preparing for the future if their country.
Hope is an intangible goal, until you see people of all ages believing and embracing it. Makes some of the troubles of our daily lives and jobs seem minor.
Here see future hope in a country of their own, by clicking the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_g45sw0RwDrvxt3S6dIycSF7tpMqqE-/view
Dr. Gamble’s summary of his goal is in an e.e. cummings poem. It is the same spirit that started credit unions.
Reveals that deep inside us
Something is valuable,
Worth listening to, worthy
Of our touch, sacred to our touch.
Once we believe in ourselves we can
Risk curiosity, wonder, Spontaneous
Delight, or any experience that reveals
The human spirit.
e.e. cummings