HELPING AND TEACHING AT THE SAME TIME

DAYSPRING CHILDREN SERVING OTHERS

It was Children's Day in Kyrgyzstan and our team on the ground - really did it RIGHT with the WRIGHTS IN THE LEAD.  They went around the valley and delivered great big pails of strawberries to other children, seniors and needy.  The children took the donations and they were the 'GIVERS'!  What could be better teaching for our little Dayspring children, than to teach then to give.  

This video just shows some of the events from Children's Day - our little girls both giving and receiving  - but most all LEARNING HOW TO SHARE THE LOVE OF JESUS WITH ALL THEY MEET.

Thank you supporters for allowing this great opportunity for our children.

The LAMb Team!

MILESTONE - BENCHMARKS - GRANDCHILDREN - STANDING PROUD

TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS

Sometimes you just feel good.    

 Grandchildren do this for us.  One granddaughter in Indiana in University another graduating this week from high school (SEE THE VIDEO ABOVE FOR MEMORIES OF HER).  Four grandchildren in Brazil, growing and learning, a lovely young granddaughter in California who taught us to use Facebook, a grandson who now has become a father and given all of us our first great grandchild and a grandson in BC who awaits his day to walk the graduation aisle in just three years.

NOT TO FORGET

our little granddaughters in Kyrgyzstan at Dayspring.

WE FEEL BLESSED AND FOREVER FAVORED

DAYSPRING UPDATE - CHILDREN AND SENIORS BLESS EACH OTHER

DAYSPRING CHILDREN 

VISITING THE HOMELESS SENIORS

When we are not on the ground, we ask our staff to visit our dear Kemin Senior Home at least once a week.  Zukrah, our Assistant Country Director has been faithful and dedicated to visit and as well, take children from Dayspring along with her for the visit.  

The seniors love to see the children and the children love to go.  This is such a blessing to both.  These pictures show our children and our seniors in those happy moments.

GOOD JOB ZUKRAH AND TEAM!!!!!  WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!

HERE IS THE EMAIL FROM ZUKRAH...ABOUT THE VISIT....

"Today I took 4 girls from dayspring and we visited Seniors at Kemin, They are doing good, now there have 35 seniors and two more coming at end of week know Tanya director of seniors home working on there documents to move them to kemin. 

We learnned 5 songs and with actions we showed them, it was very interesting they love this, and ask us next times to show again the same, our girls promised them to come next times with concert. I borrow camera and takes pictures I attach some pictures for you. 

 (WE NEED TO GET HER A CAMERA!)

DASHS ON THE WAY TO RECOVERY AND BEING HEALTHY

DASHA IS HEALING AND BEING A STRONG LITTLE GIRL

Word from our team on the ground in Kyrgyzstan is good.  Dasha is in her room and now healing from her surgery to fix the holes in her heart - something she was born with.  Little Dasha was forbidden to go to school, play or do other things healthy children do naturally.  This surgery is to change that.  She really wants to learn, go to school and be included in things other children her age can do. 

We are so thankful to Ed Dickson for sponsoring this surgery for her.  It would not have happened without this sponsorship.  ED - WE THAN GOD FOR YOU AND SALUTE YOU AS WE THANK YOU AND THOSE THAT SPONSOR YOUR GREAT WORK.

DASHA IS ON THE WAY TO HEALTH.

The LAMb Team

I REFUSE - WILL YOU JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO REFUSE?

I REFUSE

A message that touches the heart!

We have a team that refuses to turn away.  Although we cannot do everything we want and even feel we need to do, we can stop for the one in front of us.  We will continue to:

1.  Do training and consultation to those wanting to help families and children.

2.  Take food to the hungry.

3.  Work with key leadership to find new and creative ways to get children out of orphanages and into families.

4.  Help families adopt.

5.  Ensure education is available to children who have been forgotten and lost within the crisis of a situation they had nothing to do with.

6.  See a child through an operation that just might make a huge difference in their lives.

7.  Visit the elderly in their time of distress.

8.  Bring all we can to the disabled to return hope and dignity to their lives.

9.  Help create systems that attend to the needs of children and families.

10.  Share the love of Christ with all - through actions, words and deeds.

THE LAMb Team

UPDATE ON DASHA - SURGERY OVER!!!!

Dasha on the left!

SURGERY IS OVER

We talked to our LAMb Team on the ground just a short while ago -  in Kyrgyzstan and the report is good.  4 hours of surgery and now at this time Dasha is in the intensive care unit - expected to be there for just one day and then on to the room for recovery.  Madlin is with her every day and we have a nurse there as well.  She is well cared for.

This little girl has never been to school - doctors orders!  She wants to go with the other girls and we pray this is a turn around for her.  We know she will need tutoring and additional help to catch up.  We are committed to doing what we can to make this happen.

In the process of this wait our team has been in contact with her mother and was able to get both her mother and father to agree to go to the hospital to see her before her surgery.  We pray we might continue this visitation and build on the visits for a healthy relationship.  Little Dasha deserves her family and we pray her family will come to deserve her.  Zukrah (out staff/team member from KG) took mom and dad to the hospital and spent the day there with them.  Again - our team is a committed family focused team.

We honor the teams work and commitment to the goals of Dayspring - permanency with a family for all children we are entrusted with.

We look forward to bright and healthy future for Dasha.  Please continue to pray for her.

The LAMb Team 

HOPE, ALASKSA FOR LARISSA AND TANYA

TANYA SERVING AT THE TB HOSPITAL

LARISSA SERVING AT TB HOSPITAL

LARISSA AND TANYA WILL GO TO ALASKA TO LEARN SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION FOR KYRGYZSTAN

We are so pleased to announce a great opportunity for Larissa and Tanya - our staff and team members from Kyrgyzstan.  We have completed an agreement with HOPE (www.hopealaska.org) in Anchorage, Alaska to bring two of our team members over for a learning opportunity.  Hope Alaska is an amazing organization in which our team will learn and then return to Kyrgyzstan to teach others and to demonstrate new skills and knowledge.

We are thrilled to be sending Larissa and Tanya to Alaska this September for this opportunity.  They will be staying there for three months, learning and practicing/working.  Once they return Hope will send two experts over to Kyrgyzstan and follow them in their work within Kyrgyzstan - to continue the coaching and transfer of new skills.

LAMb International is excited to have this partnership with Hope.  It is our desire to continue building skilled teams in Kyrgyzstan in the area of working with disabled persons.  We know our ISKRA MEN'S HOME will benefit greatly, as will many other organizations where Larissa and Tanya will be serving.  They have served again and again - hour upon hour in KG - now the opportunity to bring new energy and knowledge has been given them.  They are humbled and so excited to be heading for this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn.

YOU CAN HELP US BUILD SUSTAINABILITY IN KYRGYZSTAN - JUST ASK US HOW...

Here is a cut from the HOPE website:

Hope Community Resources (Hope) is a non-profit organization that provides community supports throughout the State of Alaska to over 1,200 families and individuals who experience disabilities. Currently, Hope is the only agency to provide services on a state-wide basis through regional offices that are located in Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, Dillingham, Kodiak, Juneau, Ketchikan, Seward, Barrow and the Kenai Peninsula. Based in these communities, Hope also serves the outlying areas and numerous villages surrounding each region.      

Who We Serve

The people who choose Hope supports range in age from infancy to the elderly; are of varied and diverse ethnic background; and experience mild to severe disabilities.  Each person is individual and unique in the supports they need and request.  Because of this, Hope focuses service planning on the individual and not on a standard "menu" of supports.  Each person's plan is customized to meet their specific needs and dreams.

Approximately 28% of Hope's support recipients are Alaskan Native.  This proves to be challenging with the language barriers and the vastness of the state; however, Hope has accepted this challenge through its expansion of regional offices, subsistence supports and cultural awareness.

Keeping families together in the community of their choice is a major component of Hope's mission.

Why Choose Hope?

Hope is here to assist individuals in achieving their dreams.  Hope operates under principles that reflect the highest values centered on those who choose our community supports.  These values have and will continue to be the driving force behind Hope's support system of person-centeredness and consumer control.

Hope believes families and individuals should have control over their lives.  By giving them choice in living environments, personalized supports, employment opportunities and other support options, they can exercise that control.  Hope promotes a concerted advocacy for the rights of people who experience a disability.