SM   LifeNets on Facebook   Follow our Blog Follow us on Twitter     Find ANY word Find ALL words  Find EXACT phrase    Help   Search or SHOP the NET with GoodSearch and benefit LifeNets. Just click the icon above and either search or shop.  LifeNets will benefit with no additional cost to you.   PayPal DONATE NOW DISCOVER      Subscribe to RSS feed feed:  http://www.lifenets.org/rss.xml Vasyl and Irina Polichko write to LifeNets March 19, 2012 about our Street Children's Program in Vinogradov, Ukraine LifeNets inaugurates a cattle project in northern Brazil in late 2011.  Shown is project director Jorge de Campos with cattle on January 2012 visit to Brazil. LifeNets is now supporting Dunya Orphans School in Kosele, Kenya. We love supporting well-managed indigenous projects that have already produced good outcomes.  Please read more and see how you can help at www.lifenets.org/kosele (posted February 29, 2012) LifeNets helps sponsor Leigh Ann Gholson Mission to Guatemala Sept 30-Oct 7, 2011 - Great story! British Ambassador Leigh Turner visits "Revival" Centre for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Chernihev, Ukraine on its 15th Anniversary June 23. LifeNets has worked with this Centre since before it opened in 1996.  See latest updates and photos  (posted July 9, 2011) LifeNets has been pleased to be on the ground floor of the Chernobyl's "Revival" Centre of Rehabilitation of Disabled Children since 1996. See their video that gives some history of the center. More on our website at http://lifenets.org/chernobyl   Borehole financed by Rotary International drilled first week of November 2010 adjacent to LifeNets Prenatal and Neonatal Clinic Being Built in Salima, Malawi.  See story about this much-needed community service. This is the third clinic that LifeNets has built in Malawi (posted November 10, 2010)   Mission Statement   LifeNets is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization which develops programs offering practical assistance that promote the well being and self sufficiency of disadvantaged people throughout the world and, where possible, encourages them to pass on their LifeNets benefit to others. Current Stories   Colombia: Helping a poor family put roof on home (posted March 26, 2012)   Promotional video about LifeNets explaining our origins and programs. It was made to be shown for Seattle Skyline Rotary's fundraiser on April 17, 2010. What mobility means to a woman in Balaka, Malawi.  See Story and more photos.  Visit our LifeNets Wheelchair site.  (posted March 23, 2010) LifeNets Wheelchair Project stories.  Read about some of the wheelchair matches that have changed people's lives.   Victor Kubik with Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon in Novgorod, Russia open air market. The two sales ladies were from the war-torn Dageston Republic working the bazaar to support their families back home. Read about our October, 1999 trip. LifeNets work in the Chernobyl area is featured in the April 2006 issue of the Rotarian magazine that goes monthly to 1.3 million Rotarians in 33,000 clubs in over 100 countries. You may also download one of these versions With the help of Rotary, LifeNets drills borehole in Blantyre, Malawi that provides water for 1500 people.    The story of the LifeNets Izabal Project on the Atlantic side of Guatemala.  Jon and Barbara Brightman from Chicago helped many children with shoes, school supplies and school fees. Contact webmaster@lifenets.org with questions or comments about this web site Copyright © 1999-2012  LifeNets Last updated April 29, 2012 This short video clip is still being played on Indianapolis PBS TV station WFYI. It is from a Communities Building Communities segment hosted by former Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon (right). She speaks about LifeNets and its work. View the clip..... (posted  October 22. 2007)   Dinner at former Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon's home in Indianapolis on September 8, 2009.  She invited international workers to discuss methods of helping more in overseas areas. She is host of PBS's Communities Building Community and a renowned civic leader. LifeNets has been associated with Judy O'Bannon for the past ten years. She is in the center of the photo. (See larger photo) Miss Washington, Devanni Partridge, promotes LifeNets at Seattle Rotary fundraiser on April 17, 2010.  It was a fantastic evening that helped raise more than $11,200 for building the JohJan LifeNets school in Migori, Kenya. See story and photos of our biggest fundraiser to date.     Scholarships successes. LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship student studying to become dental technician in Ukraine. MORE! (posted April 29, 2012) Milan and Sarah Bizic along with Jonathan Magee will travel to Guatemala in May 2012 to assist in a joint Good Works, LifeNets and Youth Corps project. The main goal of the project will be to establish hydroponic and organic farming infrastructure to be to produce food for personal use and to sell. About a year after the March 11, 2011 Japanese disaster, LifeNets Japan director Dr. Yumi Yamamoto (center) writes about special symposium in her city of Kochi discussing disaster issues for the disabled http//lifenets.org/japan Kids for Cows Update.  We thank children who through LifeNets help children get milk in Brazil, Zambia and Kenya  (updated March 12, 2012)   Latest LifeNets eNews December 30, 2011 Sign up for our Email Newsletter Latest LifeNets newsletter December 9, 2011 We're pleased to receive this report from the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Malawi that includes photos. The introduction of goats to help provide milk for the orphans is working well. Read Dr. Chilopora's report. http://lifenets.org/malawi/goats3-4-2012.htm Giovane Macedo and Laura Macedo from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil are very grateful for the LifeNets scholarship that they are receiving to help them in their graduate studies. Read update about our most successful LifeNets program. Update on the new LifeNets project: The JohJan LifeNets school in Migori, Kenya.  MORE  Watch YouTube video above by John Elliott that tells the story about the building of the school. Posted July 4, 2011