May
02
2016
Julius is our always-smiling colleague, a teacher in the Roma kindergarten of Nagydobrony, Transcarpathia, Ukraine. In 2015, with support from Presbyterians Sharing , they were able to expand and put a new roof on the Roma kindergarten building (as...
Apr
28
2016
Alexandra and Svetlana are residents of the Good Samaritan Children’s Home in Nagydobrony. It is one of the institutions of the Reformed Church of Sub-Carpathian Ukraine (RCCU) and has been in operation since 1995. Presently there are 74 girls...
Nov
14
2014
The Reformed Church Secondary School in Nagybereg, Ukraine, organized its 2014 summer English language program for the week of June 23-28. 113 students participated. Local teachers and teachers from the USA taught the students English grammar, focusing on the...
Sep
25
2014
At the beginning of the new school year, we visited some of the kindergartens and schools for Roma children that are operated by the Reformed Church of the sub-Carpathian Ukraine.
At our first stop, in the village of Tiszaágtelek, we...
Mar
10
2014
The events in Ukraine in the last three weeks of March have captured front page headlines in most of the Western media. There is nothing much surprising in recent events if you know the political history of Ukraine since 1991...
May
22
2013
Dianna is the sixth of thirteen children born to Emma Horvát and her husband in the Roma encampment at the northern edge of the town of Nagydobrony (Ukraine). Of the thirteen children, four attended the local school for Roma...
Nov
21
2012
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Communist system the possibility emerged of establishing Christian schools for the Hungarian minority community in sub-Carpathia, a region which formerly belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary for a thousand years....