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Jan Thatcher Adams M.D. traveled
with Dr. Patch Adams (no relation) to Russia in November 1995.
She clowned in orphanages, hospitals, and nursing homes with the
Patch Peace Clowns, and has returned many times with Patch in later
years.
Through this connection, she
met Maria Yeliseyeva and her Maria's
Children project in Moscow. With almost no funds and in a
tiny basement studio, Maria was enriching the lives of 12 orphans,
all labeled mentally deficient. |
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Gradually, Dr. Jan
developed steady funding in America for Maria's Children
Moscow, and
Maria Yeliseyeva saw her project grow from 12 kids to nearly
400 orphan, refugee, and disabled children.
With the help of many
dedicated donors, volunteers, and her deeply committed
husband,
Dmitri Gerasimenko, Dr. Jan created a non-profit (501c3)
foundation in the U.S.,
Maria's Children International, in 1999. New projects,
using the proven model created by Maria Yeliseyeva, are
growing
and shining light into tiny, desperate lives in St. Petersburg,
Russia, Los Cahobas, Haiti, and Dmitrov, Russia.. |
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Maria's Children
International is a fund-raising organization. We are all
volunteers,
and have no paid employees. We supply the basic operating funds
for our projects through donations and through the sales of the
wonderful images created in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We also
secure donations of supplies (clothing, toys, medicine, and art
materials), and deliver thousands of pounds each year to our projects.
Our offices/storerooms/gallery in Savage, Minnesota house the only known
Russian Orphan Art Gallery in North America. |
CONTACT US
Maria's Children International
4321 W. Highway 13
Savage, MN 55378
Phone: 952-895-1603
Fax: 952-736-8126
Email: info@mariaschildren.com |
Maria’s Children International and this website are not affiliated with Children International, also a publicly sponsored charity, which operates a worldwide child sponsorship program. For more information on Children International, go to http://www.children.org (See the links section of this webpage).
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