Orphanage graduates fall into terrible circumstances and often die young in Ukraine. They struggle to find housing, work, and good relationships. Last Bell helps them overcome and end the generational orphan cycle.
Statistics
It’s difficult to find reliable statistics on Ukrainian orphans, who are considered “throwaway kids” by society. Even our most conservative estimates describe a bleak outcome. Without intervention…
Are Chronically Unable to Find Work
Boys Enter a Continual Rotation Between Crime and Prison
Orphan Girls are Sexually Exploited
Commit Suicide by Age 18
We Serve Orphanage Graduates
Orphanhood often begins in regional villages, with most youth aging out of local orphanages by sixteen. Every year, 300 new orphanage graduates are sent to Zhytomyr to attend the city’s 20+ trade schools.
They're anxious about the future:
• They lack basic life skills and the ability to navigate in Ukrainian society.
• Problems multiply when they become parents; their kids are likely to be the next generation of orphans.
• Maturing orphanage graduates struggle in poverty without the support of a loving community.
In all stages of their lives, we address their need for nurture, spiritual growth, practical support, and opportunities.
Pray
Our youth and Last Bell staff need your prayers and intercession. We would love for you to join our faithful prayer team!
Now if your experience of Christ’s encouragement and love means anything to you, if you have known something of the fellowship of his spirit, and all that it means in kindness and deep sympathy, do make my best hope for you come true! Live together in harmony, live together in love, as though you had only one mind and one spirit between you. Never act from motives of rivalry or personal vanity, but in humility think more of each other than you do of yourselves. None of you should think only of his own affairs, but should learn to see things from other people’s point of view.
