People returning to Kyiv district happy to be alive
When Alexandra’s parents took their one-year-old daughter back to their home in Borodianka, they were relieved to discover the only damage was shattered windows.
Woolly hats help families through Balkan winter
Nothing is more practical than a woollen hat. And six-year-old Esmedin looks pleased with the brand-new home-knit made for him by a stranger far away. “Winter here can be very cold,”
Somebody somewhere thought about me
Why should anyone fill a shoebox for Blythswood? Blythswood News put this question to Finlay Mackenzie who retired as Head of Projects this year, having overseen
Ludmila rejoiced over the gifts you sent her
Ludmila is no longer able to walk. The shelling which completely destroyed her home in the east of Ukraine caused a fire in which her legs and feet were badly burnt.
Ion was very glad to see us
At five years old, Ion is too young to understand the dramas of his own life. When his parents divorced, he and his mother and sisters found themselves homeless and on the street.
Now I have my own pencils
Some of us may remember wearing the hand-me-down clothes of older siblings but Ionut has never experienced anything else. The youngest of ten brothers in a low-income family in the