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I want to share about my friend M.
M is 21 years old. He married last year. When the war started he evacuated to the town west of Ukraine where his wife’s parents live.
He is a great coach for kids and he decided that he will continue to serve kids. Through the Ball Project, we were able to help with equipment for the start of the club. He mobilized people in the local church and they together painted a fence of a field and goals.
It became a nice place for the football club.
They announced starting a club and 50 kids came to the first practice. They started in 3 age group, in a week when it was 70 kids they start to work in 4 age groups.
Many even local kids started to come to M’s practices and many parents were saying that they have never seen this kind of quality in practices.
M continues to work with kids in his home town KP and during the summer he was able to do ongoing practices and he did 2 camps for his players.
It is good that their club Peremoha (Victory) is connected with local church and some people have more awareness about church now.
Thank you for support.
Ball Project is thankful for our partners in Ukraine & around the world working faithfully to build communities & help children play.
Last Bell works with orphaned youth and families in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Last year we reached over 600 youth and family members; this year it’s a little more complex because of the war. We’ve begun helping refugee families, while we continue to meet the needs of our community at home and take care of our own evacuees in other parts of Europe.
In June, our Stop the Cycle moms’ group was able to start meeting at the Shelter facility again. These photos are from a recent meeting. The Shelter is a place where our families feel safe and the kids always have something to do, thanks in part to the Ball Project’s help! Orphanage graduates’ children love these indoor and outdoor spaces that were created just so they can move and play.
Ball Project is thankful for our partners in Ukraine & around the world working faithfully to strengthen communities & help children play.
We did a small advertisement with a desire to start soccer program to the Ukrainian refugees in Budapest. Only one boy came to the first practice. It was the son of one of our volunteers. Next practice we had 17 kids. It was a good time, lots of fun and activities that boys need at this time as they don’t have regular school time or sports time. Most of the time kids spend at home or at hotels. I was able from the beginning to start to tell stories of faith and encouragement and parents of kids were not against that. While I lead practices on the field, the rest of the team tries to build relationships with parents.
Third soccer practice, the word of mouth has already spread up among the Ukrainian community in Budapest and many people have learned about us. I was contacted by a big youth Ukrainian football team. Some players of the U-13 team are here in Budapest. They asked me to conduct practices for them. I’ve had two different practices, one with 11 players of the youth professional team and the other practice with 31 kids of different sport level. It was a bit crowded but still a lot of fun. It seems like all my years of work with kids at practices and camps helped me to be ready for these new challenges. Now we want to divide kids into two teams so we would be able to spend more quality time with them and would be able better serve them.
Big THANK YOU!!!
Ball Project is thankful for our partners in Ukraine & Hungary & around the world working faithfully to build communities & help children play.
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