I just had to share this post from Keri’s blog. It’s amazing.
Also, please note that we’ve started a new fund-raising campaign, to the right. Keri and Nastia will be visiting the orphanage in Siberia in a few short weeks, bringing clothes, shoes, and toys. Please give if you can.
As always, thank you for all your prayers and support.
From Keri:
Our dear friend Erik Rodenhiser is hosting a benefit for Anya later this week. Hope any of you who are local can try to make it. Here are the details:
Kid Prov! Kids on Stage.
July 31st. The Griffen Theatre
7 Lynde Street
Salem, MA 01970
Kids get the chance to show off their stuff with improvisational
games and scenes like “slide show” and “kids as props.”. Hosted
by Erik Rodenhiser.Two shows: 4pm, ages 4- 12, and 7pm,ages
12-18
Tickets are $12 adults, $10 for teens, and $8 for kids.
Tickets:978 825 0222, or email
griffentheatre@gmail.com.
A portion of proceeds will benefit the “Bring Anya Home” fund!
Nastia and I are trying to raise funds to visit Anya next month. I have enough for one of us to go, but Nastia really wants to go too — hence the need for fundraisers!
After a successful and well received premier in Marblehead, Mass, the Inexhaustibly for Anya video is now online. Please check it out to see what our cause is all about. Then please help us… tell a freind, write a letter, donate a few bucks, say a prayer. Whatever you can do is appreciated.
Thanks to Steve Stuart and Brad Kelly for their stellar work big big hearts.
Click here to view the video: Inexhaustibly for Anya
This week a story about Anya and Nastia was run Channel One in Russia. (Note, it’s in Russian, but a picture is worth a thousdand words.)
More details to come, you can click here to view the video.
A new story about Anya has posted today on the Salem News web site today. The title of the article is: Woman still fighting to bring her daughter’s sister to the US - By Alan Burke. Please click the link above to check it out and pass the link along. You can follow us on Twitter at @bring_anya_home and rewteet us as well.
Update from Keri (From Facebook)
Great News! Nastia and I spent the entire day and evening being filmed for a documentary being made about Anya’s situation. The crew is back first thing in the morning. Then, next week, Channel One of Russia is ALSO sending a crew up from New York City to film us for a piece they, too, are producing about Anya! They’ll… be sending a crew to Siberia to interview Anya at the same time. These both just fell in our laps this week! May they both prove fruitful!!!
Keri’s latest message from Facebook today:
Hello group — thank you for your patience.
I currently have some people who have offered to help us get Anya here permanently and I am still pursuing those measures at the time being. I hope to have some news in 3-4 weeks time. Please keep hopeful for us, keep Anya in your prayers and, by all means, do some fundraising if you are able.
MANY Thanks…
Keri, Nastia & Anya
A Note From Keri Cahill
2/16/2010 from Facebook
Sorry it’s been quiet. There hasn’t been much to report. I just wanted to offer my continued and deepest thanks for your support and prayers. I know that a great majority of you do not know Anya. Many do not even know me! And yet you joined this group to support us, and write letters, send cards, post inspiring words. I could never explain the pain I experience in being separated from Anya. I know it is worse for my daughter, and yet we both continue to hope and pray for Anya’s arrival in our arms. It is thanks to you and God that we have the strength to keep hoping. – Keri Cahill
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Please continue to support us in anyway you can, whether it be spreading the word, donating a few dollars, writing a letter, notifying the media, blogging or simply praying. We appreciate all of it. And stay tuned for more.
Keri and Nastia are home after an emotional visit with Anya. The parting was extremely traumatic and they return with renewed resolve to reunite the girls.
Our next step is securing a qualified Immigration Attorney who can advise Keri on the best way to work within the system to bring Anya here. As I’m sure you can assume, these lawyers are extremely expensive.
The Bring Anya Home campaign had an amazing December and we thank everyone who contributed money, time, thoughts and prayers. Our little Facebook group has grown to over 3000 members and we raised enough money to send Keri over to Russia to visit Anya for the holidays. That’s incredible. But now we head into the New Year and our challenge is greater than ever. People’s attention spans can be short and we still have a lot of work to do.
Let’s not forget Anya as she struggles being homeless in Siberia during these very cold months. Her only relative is her sister who lives here, in the USA. As a beautiful young woman, the reality is that she battles daily to avoid the perils of prostitution and drugs. You have the power to help her. Please consider a donation.
Thanks.
Lynn Item – Front Page News!
Very excited to see this story posted online today. Just as Keri and Nas prepare to head over to Siberia, it is wonderful to see the news coverage.
click here to read the Lynn Item news article published today.