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–>Summer 2010 Hosting Program<–

 Our Summer program is closed for this year

 Our next program will be during the winter of 2010. Check out the hosting pages of our website for more information.

Please check back in late September for new pictures!!

Find out more information on Frontier Horizon’s Hosting Program

 Questions?  Check out our Hosting Program FAQs or contact KT Bronson.

 Think about how you can be a life-changer by hosting one of these wonderful children. However…be warned, it could be your life that is changed!

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• Ready…Set…GO!!! (with us)

We have several opportunities for overseas humanitarian aid trip per year…for more information you can click here

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If you are a host family, please feel free to use our host family blog to share your experiences!

We love hearing all about it!

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Our newest project is something to really sink your teeth into!

Frontier Horizon’s initial grant for the Greenhouse project from the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation has produced extremely successful results. Please check out the pictures of the initial project.  The goal of Frontier Horizon’s Self-Sufficiency Organic Greenhouse Project is two-fold: to serve the children and to serve as a model within the Ukrainian community, at large. Initially, Frontier Horizon seeks to begin an environmentally friendly greenhouse at the orphanage that teaches farming skills; provides the children with a more nutritious, healthier diet; and, meets some of the financial and other needs of the orphanage. Our goals focus on the environment, academic awareness, nutrition, and helping to sustain the orphanages over the long-term. The long-term goals of the project are to replicate this model at other orphanages throughout Ukraine. Check out this link for detailed info on the Greenhouse project and consider helping us expand the project to other orphanages!

_________________________________________Just a boy Named Yuri . . . 

Dr. Vincent Rosini recalls: I recently met Yuri, a 15-year-old boy, at an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine. He had arrived from a local shelter about 8 months ago. I was giving out candy at the orphanage cafeteria and saw him sitting alone eating at one of the tables. I could not help but notice his burns and his severely deformed hands. I asked him to tell me how he was burned. He told me his life story: His mother left him with his grandparents when he was only a year old and they became his legal guardians. When he was 7 years old his grandfather died. After that he fought so much with his grandmother that he ran away from home. When the police caught him they brought him to a shelter and called his grandmother but she refused to take him back. Overhearing the conversation between the police inspector and his grandmother, she refused rights to be his guardian anymore. Over the next few years Yuri often ran away from the shelter. At first he would spend a couple of days on the streets but that grew into weeks and months until he finally never went back. He hooked up with a group of homeless kids that worked together by begging on the streets. All the money they made by begging had to be given to the oldest kids in charge of the group. One day someone on the street gave Yuri $10. He had never seen that much money before and decided to keep it. The older street kids heard from other kids on the street that Yuri had the money so they came after him. He ran away but they chased him down and poured lighter fluid all over him and set him on fire. He was severely burned on his face, hands, legs and feet. Yuri went from the hospital to the shelter and was finally sent to the orphanage.

On my most recent trip to Odessa, I took him to the local plastic surgery institute for an evaluation. The doctor said there would have to be many surgeries and he is willing to do the initial surgery for reconstructive surgery on his hands. Right now his hands are so deformed that the skin cannot stretch properly. This surgery will restore proper movement in his hands. The orphanage guardian asked me to help Yuri. She said it is very hard for him because all the kids make fun of him and he has few friends. Despite his hard life Yuri is a very nice kid. The initial surgery will cost $4,000. Please consider donating to Yuri’s cause.  Visit Yuri’s page for more information!