Here are updates and new things going on at LifeNets....   

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

  • LifeNets member Neil Wallis participates in 7000 km road rally driving through 7 countries in Southern Africa, giving LifeNets exposure and giving out hundreds of pairs of shoes to poor people along the way.  Great story!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

  • We establish new service program in South Africa: Live Clean Program to be presented to groups of vulnerable children in order to provide them with a message of hope and practical techniques for daily living in an attempt to alleviate emotional and mental suffering.  It will be headed by LifeNets Southern Africa chairman, Monique Webster.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

  • In January 2013 we recorded these three short testimonials from our LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Fund students who tell us of their ambitions and progress. They are studying to be a doctor, social worker and school teacher--none of which would have been possible without a a Developing Nations Scholarship grant. Please take a look at the three minute YouTube video above. We thank All of God's Children 501 (c)(3) in Lansing, Michigan that has just provided $4000 towards the Zambia scholarships.  http://lifenets.org/scholarships.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013

Saturday, October 6, 2012

  • LifeNets helps farmer get water from stream onto his land. In April of 2012 we provided hosing to connect  gasoline and treadle pumps to send water from the stream and a reservoir over his acre of land that provides livelihood for a large family. MORE
  • Three young adults complete first phase of LifeNets and Good Works hydroponic project in Guatemala.  We hope to expand our project to provide food security in urban areas. MORE
  • LifeNets has provided financing for  completing  of Dunya Orphans School in Kosele, Kenya for 70 children.  Read more at www.lifenets.org/kosele

Thursday, September 20, 2012

  • LifeNets also helps sponsor Charles Wilson on extended mission to Thailand to work with Burmese and Thai community. See more at http://lifenets.org/thailand

Sunday, August 19, 2012

  • LifeNets drills challenging borehole in remote Nalubanda North in Zambia on July 22, 2012.  Success came after dreaming about it for 12 years!  Will serve up to 500 people in community. Share in our rejoicing by reading this inspiring report!
  • LifeNets 2011 Annual Report is now online. See a summary of our activities and financial report for the last reporting year.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

  • Omaha teens helping send humanitarian items to Malawi, third poorest country in the world. Project was led by Briana Murphy in he green above. MORE.
  • We sponsor five workers on Project working with Vinogradov children in western Ukraine from July 3-18. This is the fourth of year of this valuable program and you can read more about it here.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

  • Part of our disaster relief for the Japan went for a new artificial eye for a 7 year old boy in Fukushima helped by our ophthalmologist LifeNets representative in Japan. MORE!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

  • LifeNets helps sponsor mission to Thailand for Hanna Reisdorff starting June 11. Please read

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Monday, March 12, 2012

  • Kids for Cows Update.  We thank children who through LifeNets help children get milk in Brazil, Zambia and Kenya 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

  • 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.

  • 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

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

  • 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

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

  • Kids for Cows Update.  We thank children who through LifeNets help children get milk in Zambia and Kenya

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 21, 2011

  • Read the latest in the inspiring story of Ivan Sobolev from near Chernobyl. Ukraine, who was paralyzed in diving accident 10 years ago, but has not given up on life. LifeNets has helped him since 2003

  • 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 on right that gives some history of the center. More on our website at http://lifenets.org/chernobyl

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Saturday, July 9, 2011

  • "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
      

Monday, July 4, 2011

  • 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

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

  • Latest update today.  LifeNets will be helping with earthquake victims and will facilitate relief to victims through our friends in Japan. You can donate on our Japan page.  100% of donations will go towards relief.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

  • It's been almost 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We have been working with and are a part of the "Revival" Centre in Chernihev, Ukraine since April 1996-- before it opened in June of that year. 
    See latest updates and photos.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

  • Bev Kubik gives Lions 400 pair of eyeglasses for Central America.

  • We are so proud of our LifeNets scholarship student Cephas Chapamba of Malawi who graduated with a diploma in Clinical Medicine. MORE

Monday, December 20, 2010

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

  • Updates to the LifeNets Wheelchair Project. Testimonials and new chairs received.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010

  • LifeNets is exporting the success of the ten-year old experience in Zambia to Kenya and Zimbabwe.  Leaders from both those countries traveled to Zambia in April 2010 to learn about how we have helped communities achieve food security and a higher standard of living.
  • 2010 treated mosquito net distribution in Chapita Village, Malawi. The people of the village greatly appreciate the work being done not only to improve the nutrition and health of the children, but by the latest gifts of treated mosquito nets. The first ones were distributed in January and February, during the rainy season of the year when malaria is prevalent.  The remainder of the distribution of 200 nets occurred in August.  See Story  (posted October 22, 2010)

  • LifeNets FIRST rice project. This is in northern Malawi.  A one-time investment provides long-term support for family

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Sunday, September 5, 2010

  • Fifth Annual Mandan, North Dakota LifeNets Triathlon August 22, 2010.  Great success! See story and pictures!

  • LifeNets is finally registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Malalwi on July 12, 2010.  More.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

  • 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.
     

  • Update on the new LifeNets project: The JohJan LifeNets school in Migori, Kenya. Posted August 26, 2010  MORE

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

  • Update on JohJan LifeNets Academy  in Migori, Kenya. Major LifeNets project.

Saturday, July 24, 2010


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Wednesday, July 21, 2010


  • The LifeNets 2009 Annual Report is online.  It will be mailed to friends, donors and volunteers about July 23.  View it in PDF

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Sunday, May 16 , 2010

Tuesday, April 27 , 2010

  • New LifeNets initiative for Naomi. See her FACEBOOK PAGE

    Shortly after birth Naomi developed Athetoid Cerebral Palsy due to severe  jaundice, resulting in damage to her basal ganglia... MORE.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

  • Change for Change jar to collect change for a LifeNets project, in this case the Street Kids in Vinogradov, Ukraine. Would you like a laminated poster to put into a jar.  Write to us at change@lifenets.org for poster and instructions.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

  • 3rd Annual Boot Scoot Barbecue Dinner and Auction Benefiting the LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Program -- March 6, 2010 at the Fort Worth Stockyards.  MORE!!
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

Thursday, December 31, 2009 

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 

 Saturday, December 19, 2009 

Sunday, November 22, 2009   

Thursday, October 1, 2009   

Friday, September 4, 2009 

Thursday, September 3, 2009 

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 

  • LifeNets installs water chlorinator system for Chizeni Clinic in Balaka, Malawi

  • Below: clip of why we need maize shellers in Zambia

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 

  • Latest Annual Report and August 6, 2009 newsletter

  • From Zimbabwe Tshabalala reports on a new LifeNets goat project managed from South Africa.  Read short report and be looking for more photos to come.


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Tuesday, July 30, 2009 

  • Once again, a beautiful Charity Tea was held in Piscataway, New Jersey on an ideally beautiful day June 28, 2009. The chief organizer was Dr. Barbara Walls who again put forth a phenomenal effort to raise attention and money for disadvantaged children in Balaka, Malawi where LifeNets operates the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre. LOTS MORE!

  • Wonder where some of the items you give LifeNets end up?  Read about this wonderful shipment to Malawi of eyeglasses, white shirts, toys, blankets and more.

Friday, July 24, 2009 

  • LifeNets repairs wheelchair and provides mobility for woman whose chair was damaged by car. She waited four years!  Small job, bit impact. Read story and see photos.

Friday, June 26, 2009 

  • Brother-sister Hunter (4) and Gloria (2) Williams of the Puget Sound Chapter of LifeNets donate some of their lemonade stand money to help LifeNets Vinogradov, Ukraine Street Children's Program. MORE

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 

Friday, June 12, 2009 

Thursday, June 4, 2009 

  • In Zimbabwe we install submersible pump for Teresa Chichaya who helps provide water for more than 50 other people who live on her property.  See story  

  • LifeNets volunteer Gerald Hoyer helps deliver LifeNets wheelchair to recipient in Mesa, Arizona on May 31. See more here

  • New LifeNets Project in Suriname, South America for low-income children.  Read about our new exciting venture....

  • 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.

  • LifeNets helps large family with extreme makeover of their home.  We thank donors, participants who helped!  MORE.

Monday, May 25, 2009 

  • LifeNets helps large family with extreme makeover of their home.  We thank donors, participants who helped!  MORE

Friday, May 1, 2009 

Friday, April 3, 2009

  • The April 2009 issue of Indianapolis Monthly mentions The LifeNets Wheelchair Project in its cover article "How to Get Rid of Stuff"  It is mentioned on page 63 in section on Wheelchairs: MORE

Friday, March 20, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

  • Soundpost band performed at the Ft. Worth, TX Boot Scoot Fundraiser on January 10th for the LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Fund was a great success. More than 100 attended and about $5000 was raised. This will send three young adults to college for one full year in Malawi or Zambia.  See report and photos.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

  • Christina Davis is spending two months in Malawi starting January 15, 2009 and will be living and working in Malawi as part of the International Development Internship Program at Seattle University in collaboration with LifeNets. Her research agenda.

    Follow her blog right here

Friday, December 26, 2008

  • Updated on the story of paraplegic, Ivan Sobolev in Chernihev, Ukraine. MORE. 

Monday, December 22, 2008

Friday, December 12, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

  • LifeNets sent Jennifer Myers this past summer to Malawi and Zambia to teach a "Business 101" seminar and to assess many of our livelihood development projects in those countries. She was a joy and inspiration to our people in those countries.  Read her report and see a LOT OF PICTURES!
  • Amanda Rupp of Youngstown, Ohio helps coordinate calendar fundraiser for LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Fund that will benefit student in Ghana. The amount raised will pay for nearly a year of college.  MORE

Sunday, December 7, 2008

  • Order LifeLines newsletter  Newest newsletter and calendar mailed out December 4, 2008
  • LifeNets Helps Save the Life of Matilda.....a Wonderful Story...
    At age two Matilda weighted as much as a newborn when she came to the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre. This is her photo in September 2008.  She is alive and thriving. Please read about her and the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Balaka, Malawi.
  • LifeNets ships entire dental office to El Salvador arriving in September 2008.  MORE
  • Photos of Rebecca's well in Malawi that she helped raise money for in Lilongwe, Malawi.  MORE -- UPDATED
  • UPDATED Whittier Alternative School in Sedalia, Missouri collected blankets and toys for LifeNets earlier this year.  All the items have now arrived in Malawi and have been  greatly appreciated by the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Balaka.
  • Howdy!  You're invited to join us on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fort Worth Stockyards for a silent auction, dinner, dancing and sweets benefiting the LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Fund. MORE  (posted December  7, 2008)

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

  • Real Simple magazine, circulation 2,000,000, mentions LifeNets as a good place to go to to recycle your wheelchair. See Web version
     
    Real Simple is a monthly women's interest magazine published by Time Inc. features articles and information related to homekeeping, childcare, cooking and emotional wellbeing. Real Simple is distinguished by its clean, uncluttered style of layout and photos.

    Real Simple made its television debut in 2006, with a half-hour segment airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Friday, September 12, 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Monday, August 18, 2008

Sunday, July 12, 2008

Friday, July 4, 2008

Thursday, June 26, 2008

  • A wonderful LifeNets Ladies Charity Tea on June 22, 2008. It was well-attended and provided funding for almost an entire year for the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Balaka, Malawi. More story and photos.

  • LifeNets 2007 Annual Report including Financial Summary was mailed to friends, donors and volunteers on June 5, 2008. You can also see it online at www.lifenets.org/newsletter.  

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Thursday, February 21, 2008

  • Ivan Sobolev of Chernihev, Ukraine was paralyzed for life on July 17, 2001 at the age of 20. Read his inspiring account about how he has battled this great disability. LifeNets has been helping him since 2002.

  • NEW  LifeNets Online Newsletter starts  -- would you like to subscribe??

  • Speech by LifeNets North Dakota Chapter President Pam Redline to the UCG Family Club in Bismarck/Mandan, North Dakota.

  • Rebecca McClure of Indianapolis, Indiana on her 14th birthday January 5th. She told everyone that she had everything she needed and would like any gifts be a donation towards a LifeNets water well in Africa. This philanthropic spirit generated about $1000 in donations towards our next well project! What a spirit!! Thanks Rebecca! MORE

Sunday, February 3, 2008

  • Reminiscing, updating and closing words on our Manhattan Project to help 911 Victims in New York City in 2001.

Monday, December 10, 2007

  • New LifeLines newsletter mailed December 1, 2007.  See it online.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

  • LifeNets van for our Vinogradov Street Children is delivered in September 2007 to its destination in Ukraine. On the left is Vasyl Polichko along with some of the children that he and his wife Irina (in the middle) care for.  Thank you all for helping us with the funding of this Mercedes van.MORE PICTURES

  • This short video 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.....

  • How Money CAN buy happiness....  from New York Times and Bottom Line articles

  • Phil Myers who along with Aaron Blue and Jennifer Myers participated in the LifeNets Malawi Medical Mission in June/July 2007.  He completes his wonderful travel blog on October 11th. You may want to read his last entries.
  • LifeNets helps sponsor teen alcohol abuse program in Estonia called OK which stands for "Ole Kaine" or "Be Sober." Read about latest media campaign and report from program director Lauri Beekman and the opneing of alcohol and smoke free coffee shop.  Lauri is a Sabbath-keeper and has been helpful to United Church of God work in Estonia. Read September 22, 2007 update.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Monday, September 3, 2007

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Friday, August 10, 2007

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Friday, July 27, 2007

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

  • LifeNets donates Mercedes van converted for 20 passengers in Germany to be driven to Ukraine for Vinogradov Street Children.  See more.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Monday, May 14, 2007

Monday, April 9, 2007

Friday, March 9, 2007

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Saturday, January 6, 2007

  • LifeNets helps farm family in Zimbabwe who live in extreme hardship with purchase of pickup truck for their farm.  Thanks to all who help LifeNets help people in ways like this! More.

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Monday, November 27, 2006

Friday, November 17, 2006

  • Update on our Vinogradov Street Children's Program. LifeNets volunteer Katherine Rowland on mission to Vinogradov Ukraine to visit our street children program. MORE

Sunday, November 6, 2006

Friday, September 22, 2006

Monday, August 7, 2006

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Saturday, April 29, 2006

  • E-PRAIRIE.COM technology newsletter from Chicago read by more than 250,000 mostly technology and investment executives features LifeNets work in Chernobyl as its top story this week. DIRECT LINK to article 

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Monday, April 10, 2006

  • April 26 is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. See Award-winning video "Nowhere to Hide" produced by 16 year-old Jonathan McClure

Friday, March 24, 2006

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

  • Indianapolis, Indiana Better Business Bureau features LifeNets on the front page of its quarterly online newsletter sent to thousands in Central Indiana.  See front page and the article
  • 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. Download one of the versions below

     The Rotarian April 2006 Champion for Chernobyl 6 meg version  
     The Rotarian
    April 2006 Champion for Chernobyl 1 meg version

Friday, March 10, 2006

  • We visited New Orleans on February 25th. Read our latest Katrina blog about the what's happening along with stories of care, compassion and courage.
  • LifeNets North Dakota Chapter President Pam Redline makes cash presentations through mayors of Bismarck and Mandan, North Dakota for community projects. See details....
  • Albertson's, Osco, Savon join LifeNets to help Christina Davis of Portland, Oregon to provide 1000 mosquito nets for Malawi. Read updated  report about how you can painlessly help when shopping at any of these fine drug stores!

Friday, February 17, 2006

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