Last Ulan Visit

Posted by Ken Baskette, Project Manager

We visited the children at Ulan orphanage last Thursday for the last time this summer. The children will all go to a summer camp for the next two and a half months. We will also see them when an American delegation comes in July for a week long camp.

It was a great time with the children Thursday, playing games, giving them small gifts, stickers and temporary water based tattoos. We also had a number of letters from American friends to hand out. The children especially love getting letters! We also had the two Knauss boys (Daniel and Caleb) and Theresa helping out with the children.

The children so love and appreciate our visits. All had a very nice time as the children went from station to station for the games, gifts and tattoos. Our friendships are strong there. We have also built a strong rapport with the staff at Ulan. Thanks for all your support back home that makes all this possible.

Posted by Daniel and Caleb Knauss, Sons of President David Knauss

Caleb: On Thursday I went to a Kazakh orphanage. We gave stuff to the kids. After that we went to a different part of the orphanage and did the same thing. Then we went home.

Daniel: On Thursday my mom, me, and Ken went to the orphanage with Sara, Kiikzhan, Caleb, Ember, and Muldir. We drove to the orphanage by car. It was interesting. When we got to the orphanage we passed out toys and stickers to the kids. Ken and I put fake tattoos on the kids. Then we drove home.

What did you do while you were at Ulan?

C: I gave out stickers and candy to a lot of kids.


What did you think of the children that you were doing things with?

C: I thought it was cool that people go there and give them stuff.

D: The first group I kind of felt bad for because some of them were 12 or so, but acted like little kids - Like they weren’t being taught how to act. I thought the second group was well behaved.

How does it make you feel when you see children that don’t have parents?

C: Sad because I have my own parents and I like it like that.

D: Bad because they don’t have parents and from our parents friends that have adopted children I have heard some things that have happened to them that were kind of scary.

What should people know about children in orphanages?

D: That there are a lot of kids that really need someone to give them attention. They need to know that someone likes and loves them. The living condition isn’t very easy and they don’t have very nice buildings. The inside of the building is pretty good, but the outside is kind of scary.