Update on Orphans at Play's Helping Hands Humanitarian Aid Project

Orphans at Play is looking forward to announcing exciting new developments and fundraisers coming this Summer! For now, looking back on this past year and our current needs:

We have sent over a total of twenty suitcases and over 600 tubes of diaper cream.

$600 dollars was raised in New Zeland for two playpens given to the Artyem Baby Home in Vladivostok.

$5000 dollars was raised to place our four grandmothers in our baby hospitals for a total of one year.

We raised enough to fund Kirovsky Orphanage for a new television, computer and schools supplies.

Currently, we are hoping to Partner with a Shoe Relief Program to bring shoes to a desperate area in the world where children lay in cribs barefoot, walk in socks, walk on floors where there is dirt and often moldy areas or wear the wrong size shoes, which can often lead to difficulties in walking. Most recently shoes have been our highest needed request in the Primorsky Krai region in Eastern Russia where a decent quality shoe can cost as much as $200 dollars. One of our mother’s reported her son’s toes so curled from being placed in shoes too small. The staff would tell her to put the shoes back on his feet when she was visiting with him as he was continuously pulling them off and even she had a difficult time trying to force his feet into these little strappy tight shoes.

We are also working towards partnering with Korean Air to take cargo to Vladivostok, Russia.

We would like to Thank all of our supporters, adoptive families and incredibly generous donors who have given so much of their time volunteering and helping to fundraise.