**We’re looking for families to host children through ABRO with NH4C2. 

**If you are interested in being a host family, we need to raise half of the funds ($700) by March 1st and the rest by April 1st.  

**We are planning to participate in a kid’s consignment sale in March, so please collect new and gently used items that we can place in the sale.

**We’re thinking about hosting a banquet and silent auction in February to raise funds.   

 Have you ever heard of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster?  In 1986 a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine melted down and spread radioactive fallout into the surrounding area.  Most of the fallout landed on the tiny country of Belarus. The radioactivity is in the air, water, and food, because radioactivity does not break down for 24,000 years.  The contamination shatters the immune systems of the people there, especially the children. 

My program will bring children from the effected areas of Belarus to my small town in Texas for clean air, water, and food.  If they leave there country for six weeks in consecutive years some of the radiation will deplete from their systems and they will be healthier.  So, I have partnered with ABRO http://www.ABRO.org to bring children in the summers.  I’m very excited about bringing these children!