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Bike pilgrimage Ukraine without Orphans begins

15.06.2011, 16:56

On June 11, an unprecedented bike trip around Ukraine started in Mariupol. Adopted children and their adoptive parents began a bike trip with the message to Ukrainians to open homes and hearts to orphans who need parents.

On June 11, an unprecedented bike trip around Ukraine started in Mariupol. Adopted children and their adoptive parents began a bike trip with the message to Ukrainians to open homes and hearts to orphans who need parents.

The trip is oganized by the alliance Ukraine without Orphans with help from the charity fund Pilgrim and A Future for the Children of Ukraine.

“We are grateful to the people who helped us buy bikes and food, to those who pray for us and dream the same dream. We dream all the orphanages will be closed in Ukraine and that there will be no children without parents,” commented the organizer Gennadiy Mokhnenko, pastor of the Church of Good Changes.

The group will reach Kyiv on June 24 and will give official letters to the president, government and the Parliament of Ukraine. The organizers will hold a final press conference, concert and prayer for children without parents and potential adoptive parents.

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