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Partner Ministries in 2023:Children's Path (Orphan ministry in Ukraine)Transforming Africa Foundation (ministry in Kenya)Ukraine Relief Efforts during WarChildren's Path continues to have new kids placed in their care, and others leaving to live in foster or adoptive families. Children's Path gives the kids of Ukraine a environment to thrive in and be cared for, encouraged, and loved.Transforming Africa Foundation plants churches in the remote area of West Pokot, and support a primary school in the sugar cane fields of Muhoroni where a vast majority of children are orphaned due to AIDS, and coordinate medical clinics and outreach in Pokot.2023 Highlights:This year, many of our children have been placed in families, both in Ukraine and in the United States. We praise God for placing the lonely in families, and for allowing children to find their forever families in the midst of war. With many of our children leaving, it has opened spaces for new children to come to Children's Path. Most of our new children are arriving from eastern Ukraine, the hardest hit areas of the war. While each child that is placed at Children's Path arrives with trauma due to familial neglect or abuse, our new children arrive with compounded trauma due to the sights and sounds that war brings. Children's Path has always been a beacon of light, hope, safety, and belonging since opening in October 2015, but even more so now as war rages all around. Children's Path continues to be a place where children begin to heal under the loving care of our caregivers.We all are feeling the effects of inflation here at home, so you can imagine how it affects those in Ukraine. The cost of fuel, groceries, clothing, and more have all increased greatly in Ukraine as imports are more and more difficult to obtain. We are currently working on installing solar panels at Children's Path to help ensure there is reliable heat and electricity throughout the winter. As mentioned above, Children's Path has been open for 8 years, and the building is in need of some repairs. Since opening in 2015, over 80 children have called Children's Path home. Each one of these 80 children came with trauma, and that trauma is expressed in many different ways.. One of those ways includes damaging property, and the rooms frequently need to be patched, painted, and refurbished.It is our top priority for each child to come to know the love of the Father. A crucial first step is to meet their physical needs.When a child begins to understand that they will not grow hungry, that they have a safe place to live and sleep where no one will harm them, where loving caregivers WILL come back...then they can begin to understand what love is and WHO the ultimate source of love is. Our greatest financial needs at this time are monthly donations to cover the $12,000/month budget it takes to keep Children's Path operating optimally. We have $6,000 left to cover the solar panel project.