A Box Filled with Love

Lyuba, who leads our work in Krasnoyarsk, was contacted by a social worker at the maternity hospital. Lyuba listened as she was informed of a woman named Aliona in a crisis situation. Lyuba’s vast experience in these kinds of situations made her act quickly. She assembled a Baby Box for Aliona and her newborn and went to meet them at the hospital.

Our teams in Russia deliver Baby Boxes each year to around fifty mothers in hard circumstances. The infant packages are composed of items specifically for mother and baby, but the infants’ families receive practical support as well.

Aliona is a single mother of four children. In addition to the Baby Box, her little boy was given a bed and her other children were delighted with some early Christmas gifts. This family will regularly receive food as a help, too.

Practical help – along with emotional and spiritual support – means so much to Aliona and her children, as well as to many other families in crisis. Our goal is to minister help at the right time, which has saved many families and enabled newborns to stay with their mothers instead of being placed in orphanages. 

Many Hands and Hearts behind the Preparing of Baby Boxes

The clothing sets for the Baby Boxes distributed in Bulgaria are assembled by volunteers in Finland and Sweden. On October 25 we held a sorting event at a church building in the city of Vantaa, Finland. Around thirty friends of the project and Mission Possible participated. 

Volunteers loaded 214 baby clothing sets into a truck headed for Bulgaria.

Our Bulgarian team packs the boxes and adds hygiene items, a children’s Bible, and more.

One Baby Box arrived at the home of a baby boy born in the slum of Ihtiman. Pictured from the left: our worker Daniela, the grandmother holding the baby, and the child’s mother