Camp Opening Ceremony

Remember to Send Postcards!

These are photos of some of the many children who will be receiving the postcards you send! The official Camp Opening Ceremony for Summer 2008 was held a few days ago.

Send a Postcard to an Orphan in Kazakhstan!

REMEMBER to mail those postcards!

Send by July 7, 2008.

For more details, click on link:

Antares Summer 2008 Postcards Project

Happy Birthday Laura!

Happy Birthday, Laura,

Antares Foundation President

Have Some Birthday Cake


and Ice Cream

I Won't Tell How Old You Are!

Smile!

While You Still Can!

and Have a Great Birthday!


Thanks for all you do to help so many people!

Special Birthday Song
(click here)

Let's Go Bowling!

At the Bowling Alley

For the "Last Bell" outings sponsored by Antares, many of the children went bowling! Above are photos of some of them. Thank you to the many people who helped sponsor these activities!

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Outings

"Rakhmet" New Mall in Petropavlovsk



In the Food Court

"Going to the Mall"
A New Experience

On Children's Day, many of the RBS children visited "Rakhmet". This is a big, new mall, which recently opened in Petropavlovsk. It was a new experience for the children!

"paxMem", pronounced "rakhmet" is a Kazakh word, which means "Thank you"!

Thank you sponsors of the "last bell" outings! Some more photos from the outings will be posted tomorrow.

Children's Day

Musical Concert

Vocal Group

Enjoying the Concert


Happy Children's Day!

June 1st was Children's Day. For this day, a group of singers and dancers were invited to the Regional Orphanage. They performed a special concert for the children. Look at their beautiful costumes! Afterwards, there were refreshments in each of the children's groups.

June Siblings Reunion

Five Older Siblings Travel to See Their Younger Siblings

Together Again!

Brotherly Love

Putting Together the Pieces


Sweet Sisters!


Sharing Special Moments


Vanya Greets His Two Brothers
and also Acts as Big Brother to One of Their Friends

The Siblings Reunion for this month occurred on June 10th. Five of the older siblings traveled to the preschool orphanage to visit their younger siblings. You may be wondering where some of the other sibling sets are this month. There are various reasons why some sibling sets are not able to participate in the Siblings Reunions at times. As we experienced several months earlier this year, sometimes these reunions are not possible at all due to quarantines. Occasionally one of the siblings may be in the hospital, and that may mean that their siblings would have no one to visit. For some children, during holidays and breaks, relatives will take them home. Even less often, sometimes siblings are adopted and have a family!

Part of this month's Siblings Reunion was sponsored by a donation given to the Antares Foundation by Suzanne and Hilton Rubin in honor of Bill Brickhill's recent retirement from the Navy. CONGRATULATIONS BILL! Bill and his wife adopted siblings from Petropavlovsk last year. Though their children did not participate in Antares Siblings Reunions because they lived in the same orphanage; the Brickhills saw one of these reunions take place while they were in Petropavlovsk.

Thanks also to Sunny Hill Preschool families of Sudbury, MA, whose donations also helped to sponsor this month's Siblings Reunion.

Antares Summer Project!

Introducing ANTARES SUMMER 2008 POSTCARD PROJECT!

During the next few weeks, with your help, we are gathering postcards to send to all of the children at summer camp. Even though being at camp is a nice break from school and the orphanage, life there still settles into a routine. How exciting it would be for ALL of the children at the camp to receive mail from people living in various other parts of the world.......


Click here for all of the details: ANTARES SUMMER 2008 POSTCARD PROJECT

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Antares Scholarship Recipient Graduates

Congratulations Guena!

Guena graduated from the Regional Orphanage in 2004, and was an Antares scholarship recipient. This scholarship helped support Guena these past four years while he continued his education studying banking at the university. Guena recently completed his studies. CONGRATULATIONS, Guena! We are proud of you!

Guena is also one of four Antares Scholarship winners who came to the US during the summer of 2006.

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Antares Scholarship Recipient

June 2008--This is Nadiya. She graduated from the Regional Orphanage in 2006.
She has just completed her second year of studies at the university.

She has two more years of studies to complete.

Antares Foundation has provided financial assistance for the past two years,

and will continue to help her the next two years.

We wish the best for Nadiya, for her studies, and for her future!

Thanks for Making A World of Difference!

Artwork by RBS Student

Thanks for making a world of difference from the other side of the planet!

A quick update: The class outings have been taking place! We will post the photos after all of the outings have occurred. It's not too late to contribute for this or future outings.

Letters and Gifts

Letter from Friends in the USA

Letters from Sponsor

Gift from Friend in the USA

Presents from Sponsor



English Books
(She Hopes to be a Translator One Day!)

Clothing from Sponsor

More Gifts

Letter and Gift from Sponsor


Thank you sponsors and friends for making a difference!

Letters and gifts are tangible evidence that someone cares!
It means so much to the children to hear from their sponsors and friends.

These are photos of children who have recently recieved letters or gifts from their sponsors and friends.

Thank you Taylor family, Todd, Nancy, Mary Ann, Judy, and family & friends!