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It's been a joy to see LifeNets volunteers
working together to provide practical support
for people in developing countries. This helps
people become self-sustaining and makes them
able to pass the benefit on to their families,
church and community.
LifeNets works primarily in the African
countries of Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Malawi,
South Africa and
Ghana. In
Europe we have have various projects in
Ukraine (Chernobyl and Transcarpathia)
and help with an alcohol abuse program for
teenagers in
Estonia.
Our programs help with everything from
livelihood development, agriculture, cattle,
water and habitat. But, our number one program
is educational scholarships. These provide a
lifetime of returns by giving a young person a
profession that continually gives back. On our
Web site at
www.lifenets.org/scholarships you
will read and see many happy outcomes. This is
one area that we will regularly feature in this
newsletter.
We have a unique wheelchair program that we
operate in the United States called
The
Wheelchair Project. We have matched
hundreds of people with wheelchairs who cannot
afford mobility with those who have an unneeded
wheelchair.
This regular newsletter will give brief reports
about news, current happenings and future plans.
Thank you for reading and caring.
Victor Kubik
President
In
the April 2009 issue of Indianapolis
Monthly, The LifeNets Wheelchair Project is
mentioned on page 63 in its cover article "How
to Get Rid of Stuff:"
excellent
condition with their related equipment to
LifeNets. We decided to send them to El Salvador
where we had already helped establish a practice
in 2001 run by some of our early scholarship
students. This practice provides a portion of
their work as a community service.
The
2nd Annual Boot Scoot benefiting the Developing
Nations Scholarship Fund was held on January 10th in
Fort Worth! Delicious barbecue beef ribs were
served to 100 guests before the silent auction and
dance with music generously provided by Soundpost. The
silent auction, raffle, and ticket sales along with
separate donations netted approximately $5000 for
the scholarship fund. For a complete report about
the Boot Scoot along with photos, please go to our
Web site at
