Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the all-in-one-seo-pack domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/f/f/4/habaid.org/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the wp-cerber domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/f/f/4/habaid.org/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 {"id":1334,"date":"2016-10-10T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.habaid.org\/?page_id=1334"},"modified":"2016-10-10T23:38:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:38:54","slug":"ukraine-mercy-mission-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/ukraine-mercy-mission-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Mercy Mission September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our envoy Robert Waterman, was recently sent by HabAid on a mercy mission to the Ukraine to help extremely poor and orphaned children in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Here is a brief transcript from his early report and initial feelings on returning from the mission.<\/p>\n

R\"20160925_134800\"<\/a>obert Waterman writes:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0few very random tired thoughts from the visit to the Ukraine and Zhitomir<\/p>\n

I started my trip in Kiev, which seems like a vibrant city although less expensive than London, but within the normal range. From Kiev I went to Zhytomyr and it is without doubt a desperate place and something and somewhere I have never experienced before. Although I visited on a similar mission two years ago, I did not stay in Zhytomyr and so did not appreciate the situation. Now having stayed there I can truly appreciate the desperate situation the town is in.\u00a0It is hard to appreciate the state of the\u00a0economy in this part of\u00a0the country, but it is absolutely dire and I have never experienced anything like it before.<\/p>\n

There are about 5,000 Jewish people in Zhytomyr and almost without exception they are all very poor. I particularly went to a Jewish school which looks after orphaned children amongst its more normal pupils. the school feeds the orphaned children with a budget equivalent to 33 pence per child per day. The non-orphaned children are given a grant by the government which was successfully \u00a0negotiated by the school. The government give each family the equivalent of $10 US a year per child to help with school meals, but as this is given directly to the parents who are themselves so poor, the money often doesn’t reach the school as the family keep it to help the family to live.<\/p>\n

Maybe a way of helping you understand the economy there is on my\u00a0first visit to the Ukraine some years\u00a0years ago, I \"20160925_124146\"

So it came to the main purpose of my trip to take the children to shops so that I could buy them much needed clothes and shoes. As we were all walking to the store I felt something brush my hand. It was a small child from the orphanage asking to hold my hand. The mixed emotion overwhelmed me as on one hand I felt uplifted by what we were doing, on the other I was saddened as no child anywhere should want for food or love.<\/p>\n

Later that evening the Children\u00a0made impromptu speeches thanking us and HabAid over dinner at the orphanage. They also said that our help although important, is much more significant in other ways. It’s not only that we buy them shoes and clothes\u00a0and let them chose\u00a0them, it shows the children\u00a0that people and more specifically Jewish people, care for them and that they are part of something much bigger and more beautiful\u00a0than their difficult situation in Zhytomyr and the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Personally I am very grateful for the committee’s support. Everyone on HabAid should be very proud of what you have allowed me to do on your behalf. \"20160925_124211\"

Our envoy Robert Waterman, was recently sent by HabAid on a mercy mission to the Ukraine to help extremely poor and orphaned children in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Here is a brief transcript from his early report and initial feelings on returning from the mission. Robert Waterman writes: A\u00a0few very random tired thoughts from the visit to the Ukraine and Zhitomir I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habaid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}