Project juvenile home Teen Challenge Kazakhstan

This August, our board members Krijn & Cora Donk visited Maxim and Evgenia Buzinovskiyi from Teen Challenge in Kazakhstan.

We had seen each other during the Europe Teen Challenge conference in Warsaw in May of this year. There, we introduced Krijn & Cora to them and they discussed the plans for the visit later in the summer.

Maxim and Evgenia (Jenja) care for boys who, for whatever reason, cannot live at home or do not have a home. They also have three children themselves.

By the way, we were able to give them a nice donation last year to renovate the room where the boys spend their free time. Floor insulation, new windows, furniture. The money was well spent, as we saw in the pictures that Krijn took!

Krijn & Cora spent a lot of time with the youngsters: talking, practicing English, playing games, cycling, walking etc.

They also visited the Teen Challenge drug and alcohol rehab center for men in Almaty, the women's center, the church, and beautiful places in and around the capital. The hospitality they received was enormous. They were given Maxim & Jenja's car to travel around and were spoiled with delicious food.

How good it is to be able to spend time together like this, it is encouraging for everyone. Maxim and Jenja and the boys felt seen and heard and knew that we support their work. We would therefore like to bless them again with a nice gift.

They have been saving for a new passenger van for some time (really needed!) and have plenty of other plans, including opening a coffee bar for young people at the church.

In 2016(!) Krijn skated the 200 km on the Weissensee for a new kitchen in the juvenile home in Kazakhstan. How great is it that he could now see with his own eyes how much everyone still enjoys preparing food in that kitchen!

If you want to help to make this work among  young people in Almaty possible, you can send a donation in different ways:

💛Send your financial gift to St. Traveling Light, Papendrecht IBAN: NL91RABO0118582275 BIC: RABONL2U and make sure to mention TC KAZAKHSTAN.

💳 Give by card

👉You can also donate directly via our website!

🔔When in the USA, make your tax-deductible gift payable to EEO Inc. Make sure to mention TC KAZAKHSTAN.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

PS: You can read older messages about the work of Teen Challenge Kazakhstan, our donations, and visits HERE.