It's funny but if a 15-year-old Belarusian boy with downs hadn't gotten it into his head that playing with matches was a good idea I might never have started the farm project and four orphanages in Be...

I have always said i would love to see a day when all of the orphanages are closed down. Belarus yesterday officially decided to go down that road.
Here is the link to the news that Belarus is to clos...

Sarah Carey, a columnist with The Sunday Times and a friend of mine has stirred the debate on taking Belarusian children on holidays to Ireland and other countries and has brought IODP in on it. I did...

(Note: In Belarus and Russia Christmas falls on January 7th.)
Tom McEnaney,
Watching young children receive Santa Claus for the first time is always poignant. You find yourself looking at their faces...

Tom McEnaney
In the running from shop to shop, the long journeys in knee-high snow and the thousands of encounters with eager children, thoughts dominated by Santa, one memory sticks out. It is the ex...