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New Year's News from Green Forest Internat!

Monday, 8 February 2010 10:17 A GMT-05
President Viktor Yushchenko held a glitzy 2010 Presidental Children’s Christmas Tree Party in Kyiv. I am so excited to tell you that a group of 6 children from Green Forest Internat were invited to represent all the orphanages in the Kharkiv Ob

eBay, Box Tops and other easy ways to donate!

Sunday, 31 January 2010 10:23 P GMT-05
Joan has been working hard getting our ebay sales going....http://shop.ebay.com/orphansbrightstar/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=A few Hello Kitty items left and lots of other great things...check out the purses for girls..they are bou

2 year old Kostya needs our help - Updated 11/12/09 and 11/13/09 and 1/30/10

Saturday, 30 January 2010 6:39 P GMT-05
OBS wants to help 2 year old Kostya who was mentioned in the Visit to Kremenchuk blog entry.  Kostya is an angelic little boy (see pictures) who is healthy and developing well, but has cataracts and can not see.  While his surgery will be f

Tough time economically, but ...

Thursday, 28 January 2010 9:02 P GMT-05
It’s that special time of year we all know and love - number crunching tax season.  Yuck.But as I was working on preparing the 2009 990 return for An Orphan’s Bright Star, I realized some very positive news.Despite the economic hards

New Year: New Projects!

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 7:12 P GMT-05
If you’ve checked out the Projects portion of the web site lately you will see that we have some pretty nice goals for 2010. ·         The directors at Svalyava and Kremenchuk have both asked

Potoki Closing

Sunday, 3 January 2010 11:47 A GMT-05
Just wanted to pass on some news from Anya about Potoki.  As Anya says, " A fat cat bought the site for a spa or hotel and they have closed the orphanage".  This orphanage was situated on beautiful grounds on a river and I guess t

OBS December 2009 Newsletter

Friday, 18 December 2009 12:34 P GMT-05
Please take a moment to read our latest newsletter: http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/18160339/1126018162/name/OBS

Almost $1,000 raised through collecting box tops. You can help!

Sunday, 13 December 2009 8:49 P GMT-05
As of today we have $134.00 worth of box tops. I will not be cashing these in for several months though. As you gather with friends and family this holiday season please ask them to save these for Orphans Bright Star. To date we have collected approx

Hooray! Who wants to see some laundry equipment???

Saturday, 5 December 2009 2:02 P GMT-05
Okay, so it’s not cute kiddos in new shoes.  But this one was a BIG project for us that can now officially be checked off as COMPLETE.  The laundry equipment for Nova Borova internat is IN!In case you are not up on your laundry equipm

More great news (Bye-Bye Buggy, Eye doctor, chickens, etc.)

Wednesday, 2 December 2009 10:11 P GMT-05
News update from Carolyn... I talked with Jerry (For you who may not know-Jerry is a minister who has worked with Ukrainian orphans for 12 years and has generously let us send supplies when he sends a container),and he has a container leaving ar