By Natalia, a Ukrainian refugee One of my friends asked me how Ukrainians could be so strong, having lived through so much in their lives. I opened the Bible and read the following verse: “… do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am Read more
I first heard about Helping Hands from my husband’s cousin. My ears perked up instantly because as a preschool teacher, I’d recently had two children in my class adopted from orphanages in Russia. Both students were blessed to be in stable homes where they were treasured. Still, they struggled. Their Read more
I am the Bulgarian Administrator for Helping Hands Eastern European Ministries. I worked with the founder, Linda, for three years while she lived in Bulgaria. A couple years after she moved back to the United States, Pastor Hunsicker and Linda started Helping Hands and I became the administrator. Linda thought Read more
Today is a great day! I could reach out to my parents. I could talk to them over the phone. They finally got the electricity back after 5 hours of blackout. Now the 4-7 hour blackouts are quite a normal daily routine in Ukraine. The missile attacks on energy infrastructure Read more
It began 21 years ago in his church office in Abbotsford, WI. I needed to fax a document to a lab company so we could receive medical supplies to be shipped to Bulgaria. As far as I knew, were no fax machines in Abbotsford except at my church. I explained Read more
Over the past several months, our website has been under construction, so to speak. Thechanges have been driven by the need to make our materials more easily accessible on aphone. More content for Americans has been added, and over the next several months, therewill be even more available. There is Read more
November, 2023 Last month, as part of preparation for a tough winter, a fund-raising dinner was held in the Milwaukee area. Two very special gentlemen spoke about the work they did the first year of the war in Ukraine. One was the young Romanian man who helped some 25,000 Ukrainians Read more