Newsletter

Transportation Scholarship

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter

In 2002, I began to support the Emmaus Food Program. This program, operated by the local Baptist church, reached out to children from difficult homes. Some of the children came to eat without having showered for days; some of the children arrived with lice in their hair, and others appeared in clothes that seemed to…

Education Scholarship Fundraiser

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children

MUCH is having its first internet fundraiser Mark Koehler, founder and Vice President in charge of Field Operations, and his wife Sveta, operate Mission Ukraine Children’s Hope (MUCH) from their base in Illichevsk, Ukraine. MUCH, a 501 (c) (3) charitable nonprofit Christian ministry has dedicated itself to helping disadvantaged children in Ukraine communities and orphanages…

July 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Therapeutic Massage

Hello family and friends, We Urgently Need Your Help! It has been six trying years since the 2008 financial crisis. MUCH sponsors have dug deep during those years to keep MUCH alive and serving the children. It was a challenge each year, but this year we are facing our biggest challenge. At midyear, we are…

June 2013 Newletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children

Hello family and friends, On May 21st, Sveta and I left Illichevsk’s summery temperature of 75 F as we headed for northwestern Ukraine, 462 mile from our seaside city. Considering that June was right around the corner, we were thinking about warm weather in Dobromel. To our great surprise, two things were not as we…

May 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter

Hello family and friends, We begin our newsletter this month with some very sad news. On the evening of May 9, the director of the Dobromel Orphanage died in an auto accident. His death will be a great loss to the children and staff who loved him with great respect. I have put together a…

April 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter

Hello family and friends, April is a funny kind of month. Many people in Ukraine are tilling the land and planting their gardens. The temperature remains cold, somewhere in the upper thirties, but warmer weather is on the way. The public transportation is filled with people carrying garden implements, seeds and saplings, on the way…

March 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Therapeutic Massage

Hello family and friends, March came in like a lion here in Illichevsk. I was wearing my deep winter duck-down coat and favorite furry hat plus layers of shirts and pants to be warm in my outdoor adventures. Indoors, layers of clothes help me stay warm as Siberian Sveta likes to open the windows and…

February 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Therapeutic Massage

Hello family and friends, Sveta and I enjoyed a couple of weeks of snow, but now the 35F plus weather has brought the rain. Snow may return before spring arrives, but it will not stay long here by the Black Sea. The weather changes most unpredictably. Sveta is moving my residency documents along quickly, as…

January 2013 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Therapeutic Massage, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, Happy New Year 2013! Our Christmas fundraiser this year fell short of our total goal, but we will be able to operate the computer classes for the complete goal of one and a half years. We (picture to the right) are very excited about that! The remainder of the funds raised…

December 2012 Newsletter

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, Christmas draws nigh and children dream their dreams! Let’s rally our support to make this Christmas Fundraiser a success to provide a computer teacher and additional massage therapy services at Dobromel Orphanage. We are short of our goal, but with your help, their dreams can come true. The MUCH team in…

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