Our Fall 2012 Charity Event

This Fall His Hands Charity participated in Eagle Mountain City Halloween Village event. It was truly a blessing that the City was doing this event and all we had to do is show up. Well, it does sound easy, but I can't even list on here how many hours and how many people got involved in this amazing service project! From hours of planning, to hours of organizing, cooking and preparing, nothing went in vain.

A lot of times we as a Charity have a privileged to ask local businesses like grocery stores to donate goods for our event. We thought we definitely had our costs for the bake sale covered with  the local stores, but it was not so. Because His Hands Charity is helping families out of the country pretty much all of the local grocery stores denied is in assisting.  We did not expect that and had to scramble for donations from committee members themselves and from other people. I was grateful for organized and inspired members of our committee who helped us to pull it all together and we were able to receive in kind donations and monetary donations for pie baking. After that was done Heather ( our caterer ) with help of other committee members and other volunteers spent three days baking pies for our pie tasting. We had sign ups of people going to help her, but of course she had to be there the whole time. I wanted to Thanks Heather and other volunteers for not giving up, no matter the circumstances!

The day before the even and of the day of the event I relied on the help and support of the people on our committee members. Laurel got the decorating and setting up with Heather and Mandy taken care of. We had enough and more then enough people helping! The day of the event was AMAZING! It was so great seeing our work at works, so to speak!

So if you happen to make it to our booth at Halloween Village you probably remember an obnoxious loud woman with a cat costume and a wig yelling about this charity, it was me! I found use to my loud personality and I was using it!!!

These are the items that we still have for sale. $10 for each wood craft

These handmade notebooks are $2.00, great stocking suffers for Christmas.

Key chains $3.oo

The day before the even and of the day of the event I relied on the help and support of the people on our committee members. Laurel got the decorating and setting up with Heather and Mandy taken care of. We had enough and more then enough people helping! The Even was AMAZING! it was so great seeing our work at works, so to speak!

So if you happen to make it to our booth at Halloween Village you probably remember an obnoxious loud woman with a cat costume and a wig yelling about this charity, it was me! I found use to my loud personality and I was using it!!!

Meet Shukovini family

His Hands Charity has a goal of helping less fortunate/sick children, individuals and elderly who are in need of medical or temporal assistance.

Here in America we are fortunate to have many organizations that help needy people. His Hands Charity wants to bring the relief to children and families in Ukraine.

This and next year we are focusing our efforts on helping two single parent families with children who have cystic fibrosis. These children are in need of a very expensive antibiotic treatment that they can't afford.

 

Meet Shukovini  family.

 

 

 Single Mom Victoria and her 17 year old son Ilya is one of the families that we are helping this year. Besides having Cystic Fibrosis in May 2011 Ilya had a planned surgery after which he had complications, what  resulted in another surgery. After the second surgery Ilya lost 35 lb. With his main diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis loosing 35 lb makes it very hard for his lungs to support his body. That is why he is in need of antibiotic treatment and other life sustaining medicine.

  Here is Ilya doi9ng his breathing treatments

 

Ilya says he does not want to give up and he is a fighter. He sees how much his mom and other people love him and care for him. 

Ilya has a dream. He wants to be a producer and make a movie about wonderful people who help him live. 

Victoria at work.

Victoria, Ilya's Mom became a single Mom after her husband has died. She often works overtime to make the ends meet and support Ilya's medical expenses, but it is not enough.

 

We encourage you to make a donation to help this family with their need for expensive antibiotics. Use our Donate now button.

Donating to a Ukrainian orphanage

In May we have visited the Orphanage for children from 5 years old and up. We were able to go to the market and get the stuff super cheap. We got them blocks, jump ropes, board games, puzzles and fun tents for the little guys.

Feeding the hungry

Our last but not least thing that we are planning to do in Ukraine this year is helping at the Retirement home for the veterans of work here in Kharkov. These elderly individuals don't have any family who can take care of them that is how they get to this retirement home. The retirement home is entirely government supported. And those of us who live or lived in Ukraine know what that means. We don't have to go into details, they need help not only with bedding, higene items ect.but most importantly they need FOOD. So this time instead of getting those supplies we will be helping with food.

For now we only have $140 dollars to spent, which means we can get things like oranges, crackers and some candy for $350, obveously not enough to help with the full dinner, but now we know... if people need food that is a basic need.

Please donate if you have the means. We have a donate now button here on the blog.

This project is scheduled for next Friday, you can help these people today.

Thank You

Olga Clark and the comettee.

Their smiles made it all worth it

I don't know how posting from Ukraine will work, but I hope that it will.

I just wanted to update everyone on our trip to Ukraine and that we made it. 

Yesterday we got a chance to go and visit the children's spychiatric hospital here in Kharkov. We had deliveded the school supplies for the kids that were there and left the rest for the classrooms.  It was such a blessing to see those kids and how their faces lit up when they found out that we brought them something. 

We had to get more supplies for additional kits, thank you to all of you who donated!

Getting to the hospital

Big thanks to Anya who helped me bring the supplies

Here we are in thier classroom

Here are some pictures of the kids

The youngest 5 year old pacient

These kids were so sweet! We were greeted with smiles and huggs.

This little boy on the left was from the orphanage.

UNFORTUNATELY we were not allowed to take pictures of the rooms in the hospital. I took a couple of pictures in their classroom, which was pretty nicely decorated with kids drawinds and crafts. But the rooms that these kids live in for one month at a time look like they need some color and liveliness.

There a lot of strikt rools in this place like no toys allowed in their sleeping area. I was thinking no soft bear to cuddle? That was kinda sad when you are a kid.

Teachers mentioned that they are in need of shcool supplies like watercolor paper, drawing paper and art and school supplies are always needed. I was very surprised that they were allowed to draw and do art. They also have schol there at the hospital during the school year.

What we are raising funds for...

Now that we have the  Donate Now button with Pay Pal I wanted to make sure I posted what we are raising funds for:

1. We need to get more school supplies for the orphans and kids that stay in the psychiatric hospital in Kharkov for an extended number of days(kids in Ukraine can stay in the hospitals ran by the government for months). We thought it would be nice to brighten up their day with some things that they can write and draw on, some goody bags and a soft toy. We are also hoping to get them some multivitamins, since the only food they eat there in the winter and spring are grains and no vitamins.

2. The Rest Home home or Dom Prestarelih in Kharkov is in need of bedding supplies like blankets, sheets, and pillows. They are also in need of Wheel Chairs.

These are the needs that we know of for the time being.

Putting school supplies together

Here is the quick thing we threw together before my trip to Ukraine. Thank you Leah for sending out E-mails to ladies in the Relief Society and having it at your house. Big thanks to Mandy for a huge bag full of school supplies. Also Big thanks go to all of you who donated with supplies and with monetary contributions.

Thank you Emily and Leah

Me with lots of little helping hands

We are officially organized!!!

Just wanted to update everyone that as of tonight, we have finished all the paperwork and all the legal stuff for His Hands Charity! We are Organized!!! Yey!!! 

Oh, I am so happy to have all that paperwork behind us. Thank you to my husband Jim, who has spent hours trying to figure out how to organize a charity and doing all the hard legal things for us willingly and without a complaint.

Now our fist little thing that trying to put together, as our time is running out before I go to Ukraine. We are getting together this Thursday morning at 11 am at Leah's house to put together school supplies kids for the orphans in the hospitals. Of you have anything you would like to donate for school supplies kits like:

coloring books
crayons

markers

notebooks

construction paper

glue stick

stickers

Please come to Leah's house, or drop it off at my house any time. 

Here is my phone number

801-789-6058

Thank You!!!

How it all began!

My life has changed because of this young lady here on the left. Her name is Karie Parrish and she is the sister missionary who taught my Mom and me the Gospel of Jesus Christ and gave an amazing example of selflessness, hard work and service 18 years ago.

In this picture me and Katie are on one of our trips to baby orphanages in Ukraine. I absolutely LOVED playing and holding those little babies. There in the baby orphanage they told us that all these babies needed is to be held. They had so many babies and not enough workers to even hold those babies every day. They said they would just lay in their cribs quietly until it was feeding time or changing time. Can you imagine?

 Now those of us who have kids know that holding the baby and playing with the baby at this young age is one of the most important things that you can do for them. That is how their nervous system develops, by touch and feel they learn about this world. If those babies don't get enough interaction during the day they consequently slow down in development and many other consequences follow.

This is me as a teenager in another baby orphanage. I did not grow up abound lots of kids. I remember how exciting it was for me to hold a baby.

At that time that was all we did, we just played with the kids and took them outside. This is an easy age, so to speak.  When these kids grow older and they don't have someone who they know that loves and cares for them they will grow up, drop out of school and end up in prison.

There is no much that we can do. I know you might be thinking :"Where in the world will I get money to go to those orphanages to help?" But there are other things you can do to help:

I just found a couple of people that volunteer at these orphanages. And if you don't have the means there are things that you can do from home check this out:

http://anorphansmiles.org/joomla15/index.php/howtohelp/volopp


this is a link to volunteer positions that are needed. There are other way on this web site that you can help with. check it out. I myself am excited to write letters to kids and hopefully find sponsors for some kids as well.