Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Making An Ukrainian Cake

One of the summer projects at the Center last week was making a cake.

This kind of cake is a little different from the kind of cake made with batter and then cooked in an oven.

A syrup is made with enough butter to clog the arteries of several large men and then it is spread out upon several layers of large, circular waffle cookies.

On the top of the layers, chopped walnuts are spread out along with shavings of chocolate.

Then the cake will go into the refrigerator for a few hours to set. Of course this boy already knows that the cake will be tasty!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Link To Russian Street Children Video

The Gaws are a missionary family from Colorado who are currently living in Ukraine. They have a great blog called appropriately enough, "The Gaws." I enjoy reading it regularly.

They just posted a video which features street children. Even though these are street children in Russia, this is very much what those of us who work with street children deal with here in Ukraine.

The video is heartbreaking but it's important to share so that we can be moved to help these children.

To see the post and video, click HERE.


Friday, June 19, 2009

Photo Friday

Friends in the hallway.........

Lesya hard at work calling Ukrainian businesses to find sponsors to help support our Centers.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Photo Friday


Monday, June 8, 2009

Ukraine's Drinking Problem

The Kyiv Post features an interesting article on the problem of children and teenagers drinking alcohol in Ukraine.

For those of us who live here, we know that children, and I'm talking children, not teenagers, drink alcohol. It can be sold to them at kiosks located on every street.

It is also very common to see teenagers at lunch time on the streets purchasing beer and drinking it before they return back to their classes.

The European School Survey for Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs found that Ukraine has the highest rate of under age drinking among the nations it surveyed.

A 2008 World Health Organization study found that 40% of Ukrainian children drink alcohol regularly.

To read the article you can click HERE.




Sunday, June 7, 2009

World Weekend of Prayer For Children At-Risk

Saturday, June 6, 2009

World Weekend of Prayer For Children At-Risk


Today and tomorrow, June 6th and 7th is the World Weekend of Prayer For Children At-Risk.

Christians from around the world are committing to pray over the next two days specifically for children who live in at-risk situations.

The Viva Network is offering a special booklet which can help you focus on specific prayer requests. This booklet can be downloaded and is available by clicking HERE.

Please join us in prayer this weekend!


Friday, June 5, 2009

Foto Friday


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Blog About CrossRoads Foundation!

Zemanta, a fancy little gadget you can add to your blog to find non-copyrighted photos, links and tag lines, has a special campaign going on to help bloggers raise financial support for their favorite charities. The blogger, writes about his favorite non-profit and ads a tag at the end of the blog post so that Zemanta can keep track of how many bloggers are writing about a specific organization. You can get the tag HERE and vote for your favorite today. The five non-profits with the most blog posts will receive the donation money.

If you appreciate our work with street children, please consider blogging about our organization, CrossRoads Foundation and add the zemanta tag to your blog post about us. The deadline for this contest is June 6th, so write your post today!

Thank you!

Friday, May 29, 2009

Photo Friday


It's Friday, so I thought some new photos would be appropriate!