Thursday, April 1, 2004

• New livelihood development projects in Malawi

• Update on Guatemala livelihood, scholarship and habitat projects

Friday, March 19, 2004

• Quadriplegic Martin Brown in Johannesburg, South Africa. Please read his story. LifeNets has raised $15,000 towards a van that will accommodate him properly. Martin is shown with Beverly Kubik

Saturday, February 14, 2004

• 20-ton LifeNets container going to Ukraine.  See photos of the loading process!  (posted February 14, 2004) 

Friday, August 29, 2003

• Dr. Vasil Pasichnyk and his wife Dr. Natalia Zenchenko visit Indiana September 5-13 and connect with doctors and rehabilitation centers. See press release. Dr. Pasichnyk was the head pediatrician in the Chernobyl area during the time of the accident and since has established unique center of rehabilitation for children. Check out our Chernobyl section on this site.

• Jonathan McClure (15), places 10th in a National Competition for National History Day  with his senior individual documentary entitled "Nowhere to Hide: A Look At the Chernobyl Disaster."   He received the Outstanding State Entry award for the senior division.  MORE Also read about his Eagle Scout project that will connect Riley doctors with Chernobyl.  See the 10-minute award-winning video by clicking here!!  

Friday, July 25, 2003

• In Guatemala the first Overlock Commercial Sewing machine is up and running and providing a living. in addition, ten Guatemalans are helped with the Developing Nations Scholarship Fund.  MORE

Saturday, July 19, 2003

• Filipinos from Leyte benefiting from LifeNets Livelihood Development Program by raising goats, opening variety store and making cocoa tablets. Read more.

• United Youth Camp Philippines - May 18-29.    LifeNets helped supply mountain bikes, inline skates and more for camp this year.  Read report. (posted July 19, 2003) 

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

• Ambassador Bible Center sponsors LifeNets Charity Evening Sunday, July 13 and raises more than $2100 for the Developing Nations Scholarship Fund helping send more than 40 students to universities in their own countries. See more pictures and story!

Monday, July 7, 2003

• LifeNets drills well in Nyanyara, Malawi that serves more than 60 people in community that carried water for two miles previously. Project completed! MORE

Sunday, June 15, 2003

• 
  New LifeNets bi-monthly newsletter is mailed out June 4.  See it online...if you haven't received it in the mail, you can order your free copy here.

Sunday, May 25, 2003

• Volunteer ABC students help distribute white shirts, glasses, flashlights, personal care items and much more that have found their way back through ministers attending the General Conference of Elders on May 4-5, 2003.  Read More along with more photos

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

• Ozzie G. Engelbart MEMORIAL YOUTH FUND SPONSORS TWO CAMPERS FROM THE PHILIPPINES to the United States

Sunday, April 27, 2003

• Thanks to all who helped buy this vehicle to bring humanitarian aid to Mumbwa, Zambia. Read about our continuing work in Zambia

• In Guatemala LifeNets continues to improve habitat and support livelihood development in Peten and San Marcos. Read MORE and see more photos. Thanks for helping with these projects!

• Air Zimbabwe asks permission to use LifeNets photo of downtown Harare in exchange for linking to one of our projects in Zimbabwe which is the Matthew Rusike Children's Home (an orphanage).  This project is managed by Joe Dits, a reporter with the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune. Click here to see the site. Click on the photo of downtown Harare to get to LifeNets Matthew Rusike page 

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

• Our first photos and story of LifeNets mission that took seven Hoosiers from Central Indiana to Chernobyl. We plan to send 20 ton container to Chernobyl shortly. MORE

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

• LifeNets gives away nearly 30 wheelchairs. Read progress report and stories about recipients in our Wheelchair Program

Friday, April 4, 2003

• Newest LifeNets Livelihood Development Project augments income for several Filipino families.  LifeNets provides loans to buy goats make cocoa tablets and purchase fishing gear.  This project is making a difference in people's standard of living.

• LifeNets and the Developing Nations Scholarship Fund

Friday, March 21, 2003

• Livelihood Development Program helps create jobs for unemployed Colombians.  Read about the Sierra project

Sunday, March 9, 2003

• Read about how fundraising event on December 14th in the Akron United Church of God helped raise almost $3000.00 towards a LifeNets water well  in Malawi

Wednesday, December 4, 2002  

• WIBC radio program "Spotlight Indianapolis" interviews Victor Kubik about LifeNets for Sunday, October 27th broadcast. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Tuesday, November 26, 2002  

• Read recent Editorial in Indianapolis Star News about LifeNets on November 17, 2002

• Net proceeds from the 1993 Eurovan on right are being used to provide scholarships for deserving university students in El Salvador. This will help them obtain a profession and a  decent and honorable living in a country where the unemployment rate is more than 50%. Be watching for the  next project that will continue to help further the education of deserving students.

Sunday, November 3, 2002

• LifeNets mails out Annual Report.  If you are not on our mailing list and would like to see some of the many projects that LifeNets has sponsored, ask for your copy by clicking here. Be sure to include your address. First come, first served. 

• Neosho Truck Parts, Inc. is selling 1993 Eurovan on eBay.  Proceeds will go to LifeNets projects, specifically for Developing Nations Scholarship Fund. Neosho Truck Parts with owners Mark and Linda Roth hosted container collection and shipment to Chernobyl, Ukraine earlier this year....SEE STORY

Friday, August 2, 2002

• LifeNets helps facilitate assistance to Life Gaps Charter School in Monticello, Indiana founded and directed by Jerry Cook.  This is an amazing project to help young people! MORE

Monday, July 29, 2002

• Ambassador Bible Center (ABC) students load  40 foot container they just helped load Friday, June 21. It's ON ITS WAY to Malawi from Middletown, Ohio.  It's filled with six tons of food plus 14 tons of much needed medical equipment, supplies for the two clinics that LifeNets recently constructed. MORE

Monday, July 15, 2002

• Ambassador Bible Center (ABC) Students present Talent Show and Bake Auction to benefit LifeNets Latin America Scholarship Fund on July 14, 2002.  $1,158.70 was raised! Photos, story and program click here!

Thursday, June 13, 2002

• Zambia in Drought and Famine Danger

• LifeNets initiates Latin America Scholarship Fund 

Sunday, June 2, 2002

• LifeNets Wheelchair Project

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

• Forty foot LifeNets Container On Its Way to Ukraine on May 28, 2002 from Neosho, Wisconsin -- Story and photos

• Photos of children in Zambia.  Our LifeNets cattle project is going to greatly improve their lives.  Please take a look

• UCG Atlanta Young Adults doing annual fundraiser to help Central American students. 
• Check the new Volunteer and Outreach Page that we are just starting showing what some areas of the country are doing for the less fortunate in international areas!

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

• Restoring 24 heifers and two bulls to two remote communities in the the Mumbwa region of Zambia and now providing milk protein and draft power in five years.  READ THE CURRENT REPORT and see some interesting photos!

Friday, April 5, 2002

• Blankets arrive in Afghanistan.  Read the update report about LifeNets support of Afghan Baby Blanket Linus Project

Friday, March 22, 2002

• "Back to School" Project for the Children of Afghanistan

Thursday, February 14, 2002

• LifeNets to support the hard work of Zimbabwe orphanage: Matthew Rusike Children's Home (posted Feb 14)

Wednesday, February 13, 2002

• THANK YOU for your generous support of our Vinogradov, Ukraine Street Children and Orphans Program that is now fully functioning.  UPDATED
• LifeNets representative Clyde Kilough returns from the Philippines with this progress report about our current and proposed projects 
• LifeNets Helps With Shipment of Children's Books for East Timor through Bruce and Jeanette Dean of Sydney, Australia

Monday, December 24, 2001 

• LifeNets supports Afghan Baby Blanket Linus Project organized by Patti Shaw. Blankets already on their way to northern Afghanistan refugee camps
• We feature once again the intense story of Ukrainian Christians fleeing Islamic Civil War involving the Taliban in Tajikistan, adjacent to Afghanistan, in 1996-1997

Saturday, December 22, 2001 

• Lafayette United Church of God Collects Toys for Center for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Ukraine (Dec. 22, 2001)

Wednesday, December 19, 2001 

• Clyde Kilough from Sacramento, California volunteers as LifeNets coordinator for Philippines projects. LifeNets launches its 2002 initiative that will including helping Mindanao camp to be held again in April. 

Saturday, December 1, 2001 

• LifeNets Container Going to Chernobyl, Ukraine from Neosho, Wisconsin

Monday, November 19, 2001 

• Natasha Vasilita, Moldovan orphan came to Indianapolis for surgery. This was partly facilitated by  LifeNets. She dies unexpectedly. Read her remarkable story.
• LifeNets names Luis Mundo new LifeNets Director for Guatemala on November 13. He will continue the work projects that we have been conducting for the past two years. Check out our Central America section for more about what we do in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Sunday, November 18, 2001 

• LifeNets NEWS IN 2001 updated
• LifeNets Manhattan Project November 16 Update.
• Deb and Mamadou Diallo's delivery of five tons of LifeNets aid to Manhattan September 22nd
  from Indianapolis      PHOTOS

Monday, September 17,  2001 

• LifeNets launches the MANHATTAN PROJECT offering relief and support in the recovery
  process in New York City.  Please read about how YOU can help provide relief directly.
• LifeNets is featured in the Indianapolis Business Journal as Non-Profit of Note the week of September 17-23, 2001

Monday, September 3,  2001 

• Story and Photos of our trip to Central America August 17-22

Friday, August 17,  2001 

• LifeNets delivers again! Take a look at some GREAT photos of Malawi container being unloaded in Lilongwe on August 1, 2001

Friday, July 27,  2001 

• My Visit to Our Chernobyl Project  June  18-20, 2001

• We commit to helping street children in Vinogradov, Ukraine by providing a meal and shelter for less than one dollar per day per child.

• 2000 Annual Report mailed out July 24, 2001 to donors, volunteers and friends. If you would like a copy, please send us email and include mailing address.

• We commit to finish Chizeni Clinic construction in Balaka, Malawi 

Friday, June 8, 2001 

• LifeNets 2000 Annual Report: Financial and Program Statements for the year 2000

• A summary of LifeNets success stories in Guatemala -- click here! 

Friday, June 1, 2001 

• LifeNets is now registered in South Africa as of May 18!  

• LifeNets starts the cattle restoration in the Mumbwa region of Zambia.  Read exciting new report as part of the Zambia Project. LifeNets registered in Zambia as of April 20  

Thursday, May 31, 2001 

• REPORT on April 22-29 UCG camp in the Philippines that LifeNets helps supply for the second straight year

• From Tartu Emajõe Kool in Estonia: letter of appreciation for help given to school for the blind and visually impaired

• See photos of the completion stage of the new Malakia Clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi   
       Overall construction progress
       The main Malawi page   

• LifeNets values demonstrated in self-help programs for Guatemalans

• March 2001 Photos from El Salvador showing effects of the January 2001 earthquake 

• Debbie Wesley visits China in April and files this report with photos.

Saturday, April 7, 2001 

Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon spent Friday morning March 30 with Lydia Kubik-Bauer and Victor Kubik discussing humanitarian initiatives in Moldova and Africa. Judy O'Bannon is leaving for Moldova on April 16th and will be working with orphanages.

Friday, March 23, 2001 

LifeNets Rotary Presentation (left)—Victor Kubik, LifeNets president, explains how LifeNets has helped children afflicted by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to members of the Indianapolis Downtown Rotary Club, Indiana’s largest Rotary Club on March 20th.  More than 300 members attended the event at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.  Kubik also spoke about  about LifeNets at the Northeast Indianapolis Rotary Club on April 4^th.

(Right) The Zaldana family of El Salvador who live on the side of the Volcano of San Salvador. They all lost their homes in the recent earthquake. They are all wearing clothes from the LifeNets container sent in February. Read the latest update of our working in Guatemala/El Salvador. Also click on the Guatemala button on this page. 

Friday, March 2, 2001 

• LifeNets container leaves Burnsville, Minnesota Monday, Feb 26th with 20 tons of hospital equipment, 
  medical supplies, food and HOPE for Malawi, Africa. Story and photos

• LifeNets awarded four 40 foot container shipments to Ukraine  

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 

• Thank You from Tajikistan Refugees for LifeNets Winter 2000-2001 Assistance

• Excerpts from article in February 24, 2001 Indianapolis Star News about LifeNets/Chernobyl

Friday, February 16, 2001 

• LifeNets Helps with  Much Needed Construction at the Chernigov Centre of Medical Social Rehabilitation  of Disabled Children

• Priority One: Shipping 40 foot container from Minneapolis, MN to Malawi...final prep -- read story.

Wednesday, February 7, 2001 

• Construction continues on the new LifeNets Malakia Clinic and Birthing Center in Lilongwe, Malawi. See February 1, 2001 construction photos.  Full report on the Clinic.

• Container to Guatemala leaves Houston, Texas on Friday, February 2nd.  Story.

• LifeNets makes $1500 grant for May youth camp in the Philippines.

Friday, January 12, 2001 

• LifeNets takes shape in Southern Africa.  First meeting of Management  Team held December 23, 2000.  

Thursday, January 11, 2001 

• Read our latest update (Jan 11, 2001) about the ABC/LifeNets Guatemala project. Also see the entire story about our working in Guatemala -- see latest photos
• LifeNets 2001 Initiative to help with May camp for United Youth in Davao City in the Philippines

Monday, January 8, 2001 

• LifeNets announces plans to raise $150,000 for children victims of Chernobyl, marking the 15^th anniversary of the nuclear disaster and the plant’s final closing 

Monday, December 4, 2000 

• LifeNets opens Computer School in Khust, Ukraine November 30, 2000. SEE PHOTOS AND STORY
• Construction continues on the new LifeNets Malakia Clinic and Birthing Center in Lilongwe, Malawi. Please check our updates. Full report on the Clinic. Photo on right taken November 13, 2000

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 

• Read our latest update (Nov 29) about the ABC/LifeNets Guatemala project. Also see the entire story about our working in Guatemala

Friday, November 10, 2000 

• LifeNets helping paralysis victim, age 22, in Transcarpathia, Ukraine  

Wednesday, November 8, 2000 

• LifeNets announces the  Zambia Project.  Zambians in the Mumbwas area have lost all their cattle due to Corridor Disease three years ago and live at subsistence level. Read about how we want to turn this around!

Monday, November 6, 2000 

• See report and photos of LifeNets' sponsored Children's Camp in Transcarpathia, Ukraine 

Saturday, October 28, 2000 

•   Read about LifeNets Malawi Aid Program

Thursday, October 26, 2000 

• Construction continues on the new LifeNets Malakia Clinic and Birthing Center in Lilongwe, Malawi. Please check our updates. Full report on the Clinic.

Friday, October 6, 2000 

• Read our latest update about the ABC/LifeNets Guatemala project. Also see the entire story about our working in Guatemala
• October 6  Philippines Project update -- year 2000 phase of this project concludes

 Saturday, August 26, 2000

• Guatemala Project: Read the latest update (August 26th) about our continuing relief efforts. 

Thursday, August 3, 2000

• Two Children's Camp Sessions Sponsored by LifeNets in Shayan, Transcarpathia, UKRAINE Come to Successful Conclusion 

Friday, July 28, 2000 

• Africa Projects: LifeNets takes 13 day trip to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Cattle restoration project and new clinic are started. Read entire story with lots of photos here

Tuesday, June 20, 2000 

• Please read the latest update about the joint ABC/LifeNets Guatemala Project.  
• June 19, 2000  at Indiana Governor's residence: Presentation of $500 check From Forum Credit Union to LifeNets as part of annual wheelchair race benefit. From left: John M. Dierdorf, Chairman of the Board Forum, Victor Kubik, LifeNets, Judy O'Bannon, First Lady of Indiana, Gary W. Irvin, President/CEO of Forum.  MORE
• UPDATE and BREAKTHROUGH on ABC and LifeNets Guatemala Project
• LifeNets to Sponsor Three Sessions of Children's Camps in Transcarpathia, Ukraine
• Malakia Clinic project news:  we receive $290 donations toward $20,000 goal since June 3rd...still need $5915 to reach goal -- and other news. (June 21)

• See blueprints of the new Malakia Clinic and the progress of the project. 

• Can you help with BLANKETS and linens for our Malawi Project?

Thursday, June 8, 2000 

• LifeNets participates at the Medical Challenges  in Developing Countries  and the United States Seminar
• Moscow Executive Director of United Ways Elena Korneeva Visits Indianapolis

Saturday, June 3, 2000

• Van Belkum and Kubik to visit four African countries June 28-July 11, 2000
• Tremendous news about Malakia Clinic project progress from this past week. Dyanne Dick to coordinate blanket collection and Tom Kerestes obtains some of the furniture needed for the clinic

• Malakia Clinic project receives $185 in donations toward $20,000 goal this past week...still need $6205 to reach goal (June 3)

Friday, May 26, 2000

• We're Committed! LifeNets and Gladstone and Alice Chonde start construction of the new Malakia Clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi. There are several ways that you can help!  We also will be shipping another container with equipment, food and supplies within 6 months.
• Guatemala Project: The first grants for pouring concrete floors for families living on dirt floors made May 24  

Monday, May 22, 2000

• Malakia Clinic owned and operated by Gladstone&Alice Chonde in Lilongwe, Malawi, one of Africa's most densely populated and most impoverished countries.  We have been helping the Chonde's with medicine and other supplies for the last three years. A critical need now is to add a birthing center to the above building which often serves 300 patients a day! Please read more. Click here to see where we're at with FUNDRAISING....   

Wednesday, May 17, 2000

• LifeNets opens Ukraine chapter in Khust, Transcarpathia to better do its work
• For more than a year now we've been helping UKRAINE  with a MICRO-LOAN bank established by LifeNets. Read about how so much can be with so little and how it helps people feel better about themselves.
• LifeNets opening two computer schools in western Ukraine (May 17,2000)
• Ambassador Bible Center and LifeNets join forces on the Guatemala Project

Monday, May 1, 2000

• First Annual Wheelchair Race May 1 televised on Indianapolis Channel 8 -- Photo Coverage 
• Indianapolis Area Wheelchair Drop off Locations
  

Friday, April 28, 2000

• Wheelchair Race to Benefit LifeNets in the Circle in Indianapolis Monday, May 1. Please read Media Alert!  Also read about wheelchair project.

Monday, April 17, 2000

• Completion of report of LifeNets participation in Indiana official delegation visiting Russia October 1-12 headed by Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon
• LifeNets initiates the Guatemala Project on April 14, 2000

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

• LifeNets starts working in CHINA. Read about our trip to China from March 23-30. 

Thursday, March 23, 2000

• March 20 Philippines Project update 
• Thank you letter from Helle Rooma in Estonia for our donation to the Emajõe Kool Project. 
• Thank you letter from Gladstone Chonde in Malawi for recently received medicine from LifeNets.

Friday, March 10, 2000

• The Wheelchair Project.   John Doublestein (16),  junior at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, wrote to Indiana First Lady Mrs. Judy O'Bannon proposing a plan to organize a system to collect and encourage the donation of wheelchairs in the Indianapolis community for use by needy people overseas.  The First Lady's Office contacted LifeNets to help John  realize his goal. 
• March 4 update on the Philippines Project

Thursday, February 24, 2000

• Feb 24 update on the Philippines Project

Friday, February 18, 2000

• LifeNets project: Helping handicapped children at Emajõe Kool in Tartu, Estonia -- $2300 donation made Feb 14
• LifeNets Container to Chernobyl Arrives  in Chernihev February 10, 2000

Monday, February 14, 2000

• "I Was Not Ashamed to Ask For Help For Our Children" writes Dr. Vasyl Pasechnik in Chernihev News after his return to Ukraine from summer 1999 trip to USA  
• Report on Dr. Pasechnik's 1999 USA Summer Tour  (updated Feb 14, 2000)

Saturday, February 12, 2000

• Feb 12 update on the Philippines Project
• Progress with the The Philippines Project  New button on left

Wednesday, February 9, 2000

• LifeNets ships $56,292 worth of medicine to Ukraine and $2,348 to Malawi. 

Monday, February 7, 2000

• The rest of the story about Mission Ukraine 99  in Khust, Transcarpathia where we served thousands of citizens.  Pictured are people wanting to come inside Mission Nazareth for optometric and dental help. 
• UPDATES on The Philippines Project  
• Helping handicapped children in at Emajõe Kool in Tartu, Estonia

Wednesday, February 2, 2000

• The story of our helping out with the Hurricane Mitch tragedy in Honduras

Friday, January 28, 2000

• In Malawi, we launch drive to help construct BIRTHING CENTER as part of Malakia Clinic that we have been helping for the past three years. 

Wednesday, January 12, 2000

• NEW! We now feature the research of Dr. Yuri Sayenko regarding the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster
• Introducing the Chornobyl research of Professor Yury I. Sayenko, Dr. Sc. (Economics) Deputy Director, Institute of Sociology of Ukraine.

 Sunday, January 9, 2000

• Report on Dr. Vasil Pasechnik's 1999 Summer Tour 
• We initiate The Philippines Project January 9, 2000

Friday, January 7, 2000

• Teddi Treybig Lends a Hand to Our Work in Chernobyl. Report, tribute and thanks!
• LifeNets sends 20 foot, ten ton container valued at $150,000 to Chernobyl Ukraine on December 22nd
• Year-end Appeal by LifeNets, a non-profit relief organization. Please consider helping -- your tax-exempt gift will be multiplied many times over!