New Thing

New Thing is your love in action, inside the former Soviet Union

A report from Doug Brendel to all who support or follow New Thing in Belarus...

POOF! A decade goes by!...

Love never quits

Exactly 10 years ago, I was in Belarus on a whirlwind New Thing tour....

I spent a week visiting places our “Response of the Heart” team had helped and places that needed help....

At the shelter for abused and abandoned children in Zhodino, toys and sweets were popular, but bananas were the fave!

Over the years, friends of New Thing have invested $100,000 in renovations to this facility,

including a kitchen where young people learn to fend for themselves when their own family can’t or won’t.

At an association to support families of children with disabilities, in Dzerzhinsk, there was plenty of music and dancing!

In Mododyechnya, the team and I visited boarding schools for children with spinal conditions and children with visual impairment.

And then back to the soup kitchen for the homeless and poor of Minsk.

These 10 years have gone by in a flash. And they represent only half of the time we’ve been helping the people of Belarus.

It’s not “hit and run.” It’s “love and keep on loving.”

Love makes a mark. Everyone in these photos is 10 years older now.

But everyone in these photos remembers the day strangers first arrived, offering love in practical packages.

Thanks for journeying with New Thing.

More adventures to come!

Much love,

Doug Brendel

To help the people of Belarus by giving to New Thing online, click here

To send a check by snail mail: New Thing, 403 Linebrook Road, Ipswich MA 01938

Thanks again!