Ukraine

Helping children, families, and soldiers!

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Therapeutic Massage, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, You know, dear friends, that now you are helping not only children and civilians in Ukraine, but also the military, in particular, our son Misha and his team; and our friend Dasha’s husband and his team. They protect the people of Ukraine. Our son and his team often change locations, it is necessary…

Father and Son reach out to their community!

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, A new adventure has begun for Sveta and me. We moved to a small town and are meeting new people, experiencing new terrain, rules, lifestyle, and getting around in a new part of the country. We maintain train and bus transportation; one of my joys is using public transport. We have…

From a big city to a small town

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, Sveta and I have moved to a new location in the mountains of Poland! After living in a two room flat with our wonderful hostess, Ludmila, for six months, we moved. A relative of hers has a private house in a small town a couple of hours from Krakow. They made…

Report on six months into the war.

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, Change is constant in life, so it seems. Our son-in-law was working in England, and moved to Norway for the next season of work. Our daughter and three children have moved from England to northwester Ukraine, looking for familiarity. They flew to Krakow, stayed with Sveta and me for two days,…

Do you talk the talk and walk the walk?

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, A friend of ours introduced us to Sasha, in the Kyiv Region, who is quite the family man. He has ten children and his wife has one on the way. Sasha is a musician and teaches his children to play different instruments. He is doing a great ministry outreach to people…

How does your imagination work?

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, So much is happening. So many people are seeing change for the better in their lives. News tends to focus on the brutal parts of the war. Four months ago, Sveta and I saw the war come to our doorstep. We saw fear flow into our city. Four months later, we…

Massage therapy is helping autistic children overcome the trauma of war

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

Dr. Natalia started the massage therapy program with me in 2004. Many things have happened since then. About ten years ago, she opened a private clinic in Chornomorsk, a city by the Black Sea, not far from Odessa, Ukraine. She invited her son, who completed medical college, and a second massage therapist to build her…

How does massage therapy help children experiencing wartime trauma?

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Therapeutic Massage, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, The stories below were recently shared with Sveta and me by our massage therapist working in northwestern Ukraine. She shares her experiences with children who have intellectual disabilities and those who have “normal” intelligence, but have experienced wartime trauma. I added these pictures to show that exercise paralleled with massage therapy,…

Helping refugees: Evacuating children with disabilities

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, It will be two months on Saturday May 14, since we were evacuated from Ukraine. We are in Krakow, but our hearts, as are the hearts of many throughout the world, are in Ukraine. Sveta has daily communication with our team, church, volunteers, and friends in need. A number of years…

Chornomorsk and Krakow

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  • Sveta Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Hello family and friends, We are safe in God’s hand’s. His hands are working through us! These first two months have been a nerve bending challenge as we struggled with moving money from America to Ukraine (MoneyGram), and later from American to Poland (MoneyGram). We have it all figured out. Sveta and I have bank…

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