Kids for Cows Update.
We thank children who through LifeNets help children get milk in
Brazil, Zambia and Kenya
LifeNets finances water tanks
for Girl Scout Camp in Davao City, Philippines to provide
much needed water capacity for users.
See story and photos of the project.
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
LifeNets newest orphanage project in western
Zambia. Here is Derrick Pringle of
Kitwe, Zambia delivering $4000 worth of
goods to orphans as well as poor
Zambian/Angolan farmers.
We are very happy to be involved in working
with these reliable people.
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
Scholarships successes.
LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship student studying to become
dental technician in Ukraine.
MORE!
About a year after the March 11,
2011 Japanese disaster, LifeNets Japan
director Dr. Yumi Yamamoto writes about
special symposium in her city of Kochi
discussing disaster issues for the disabled
http//lifenets.org/japan
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
Another successful
LifeNets camp season completed July 3-20 with five Americans
teaching English as a Second Language and other activities.
See REPORTS at
http://lifenets.org/vinogradov/summer11/menu11.htm
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
"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
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
As
part of our Developing Nations Scholarship Program, LifeNets
decided to help some of its students with laptop computer
support. Some courses of study are quite computer intensive
a laptop computer has accelerated their education.
Read what some of the students say
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)
Our visit to the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Chapita Village,
Malawi on September 19, 2010. Watch to get the feel of the
young children we help.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Updates to the
LifeNets Wheelchair Project. Testimonials and new chairs
received.
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
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
Recent
donations to the
LifeNets
Wheelchair Project
came from our
website and by calling hospitals
and physical therapy clinics in
the Indianapolis area.
UPDATES AND
MORE....
Thursday, August 5,
2010
Update on JohJan LifeNets Academy
in Migori, Kenya. Major LifeNets project.
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.
New LifeNets eNEWS
March 19 --
Ukraine president visits LifeNets project in Chernobyl area,
Assisting Parma victims in Philippines, a wonderful wheelchair story
and Boot Scoot fundraiser in Ft. Worth, TX (posted March 19, 2010)
See all eNews
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The JohJan School project
in Migori, Kenya.
UPDATE
Delivery of first goats for LifeNets Orphan Care Centre in Balaka, Malawi. Shown are Dr. and Mrs. Sam Chilopora
and village officials.
See story and photos
3rd Annual Boot Scoot Barbecue Dinner
and Auction Benefiting the LifeNets Developing Nations
Scholarship Program -- March 6, 2010 at the Fort Worth
Stockyards.
MORE!! 2007
Boot Scoot 2009
Boot Scoot
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!
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
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
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
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.
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
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)
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).
LifeNets Girls
Scholarship Program
co-chairs
Rose McDowell & Judy Servidio
report on their miracle trip to
Kenya! A special thanks to those
who contributed funds for the
scholarship program and for the
women’s project.
READ INSPIRING
REPORT!
Sunday, July
12, 2008
Summer 2008 LifeNets project in
Vinogradov Ukraine from June 16-27 to teach children English and help
with summer camp. Volunteer Ken Zahora from Lafayette, Indiana
with Diana and Vasyl.
Read his impressions and
thoughts and see his terrific photos that tell a wonderful story!
This is the first of several reports from our volunteers that also
included Dan and Cindy Harper from Cherbourg, France and Stefan Saxin
from Gothenburg, Sweden.
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.
Earth Day program at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis
about LifeNets water wells in Malawi given by Cathy McClure
and Victor Kubik on Friday, April 25, 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.
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.
Update on our Ole Kaine
(OK) "Be Sober" program in Estonia. Our visit to the
alcohol/drug-free NK Kohvik (Cafe) on October 5, 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.....
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 benefit in Ft. Worth, Texas. Join us for dinner, live
music, a silent auction and bake sale in Ft. Worth, Texas! To
register or donate an auction item, contact Kelli Hogg at
kellihogg@yahoo.com or Brenda Hogg
at
bdhogg@yahoo.com More
information!
LifeNets North Dakota Chapter builds float for
4th of July Parade promoting the 2007 Mandan Triathlon on August
26th. Read more about the
PARADE. Details about
this year's Triathlon
Want to participate? Register at
Active.com
Portland, Oregon volunteers are organizing
fundraiser to benefit LifeNets and Lions. See website
www.lunchspecialstoday.com
Karen Schuster did May 20, 2007 interview to promote Lunch Specials
Today on 1190 KEX radio in Portland.
Hear it!
(mp3).
Cherisse from Cape Town,
South Africa along with Bervin and Sylvester of Zambia are LifeNets
three latest Developing Nations Scholarship Program recipients.
Read April's
LifeNets S
Cherisse from Cape Town,
South Africa along with Bervin and Sylvester of Zambia are LifeNets
three latest Developing Nations Scholarship Program recipients.
Read April's
LifeNets Story of the Month
Mary Chisevente of rural Mapoko, Zambia receives LifeNets
wheelchair delivered by Kambani Banda in January 2007. She has been
disabled since age 15, yet continues to work in the fields and walks
five miles to church services each week on her crutches.
Please
read Kambani Banda's inspiring story about Mary.
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.
Update on our Vinogradov Street Children's
Program. LifeNets
volunteer Katherine Rowland on mission to Vinogradov Ukraine to visit our
street children program. MORE
Tsunami update: We are happy to show you
brief clip (6 min. 21 sec) from documentary produced by Masoud Farand an
Afghan/American filmmaker called Force of Nature about the aftermath
of the Tsunami tragedy in Sri Lanka.
Download
clip.
Stream clip. (Requires Realplayer). Also go to the
Tsunami blog
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
LifeNets maize mill in Blantyre, Malawi
is up and running in March 2006. This livelihood development
project is providing a living for three United Church of God families.
More.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Better Business Bureaufeatures 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
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!