Areas of Support
We meet orphanage graduates as they enter Zhytomyr trade schools.
We invite them into mentoring relationships, learn about their needs, and introduce them to Jesus’ love. We offer support in the following areas:
Basic Needs
We offer a food and clothing pantry, laundry facilities, and showers. We provide diapers and other basic items for families, supplies for personal hygiene, and help with transportation; we meet other needs as they arise.
Education
We begin with life skills training, then provide tutoring, study help, and English lessons. We offer guidance for a student’s whole educational path, including college applications and some help with tuition.
Vocation
We teach a strong work ethic, and help young adults find work opportunities. Through our Restoration Project, some apprentice in the home renovation trade. We help others earn certificates in marketable skills.
Medical Advocacy
We teach youth about health and hygiene, and accompany them to the doctor and dentist. We help orphanage graduates of all ages with advocacy and financial aid in medical crises.
Housing
We advocate extensively with government agencies and landlords to provide housing for our young people. We offer transitional and crisis housing, and we renovate orphanage graduates’ unlivable properties.
Relationships
Parenting
Through Stop the Cycle, we invest in orphan-led families with intensive aid, parenting classes, and mentoring. Shelter Crisis Housing provides high-impact holistic help for orphan moms at risk.
Spiritual Growth
All our staffers are Christians with deep compassion for orphanage graduates. We share the Gospel across our programming, connect orphanage graduates with local churches, and disciple those who follow Jesus.
Leadership
Last Bell’s former orphans are volunteering, serving in church, and helping their younger peers. Two former orphans have joined our staff. They’re changing the paradigm of orphanhood in their culture.