OUR TRIP TO UKRAINE

Food production Project - Pilot Program in Ukraine - Chickens and Ducks as part of the project

Little ducklings in Oleg's yard



Oleg, the Food Project Manager (garden in the background).  Ukraine is a soil rich country but the farming methods are old and the yield is not as good as it should be.  This country has 25% of the world's top soil; some top soil going as much as 25 feet deep with no rocks!



Oleg's little daughter and her kitten

Curious local residents wanting to see what these "feriners" were up to!!  They followed us clear out into the fields that we were looking at.

Plowing the food production garden

Interesting Russian Orthodox Church in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Monument to the Jews killed in Kharkiv - 1941

Another view of this interesting church building

Sis Patterson and E/S Burr looking at the local art fair

Sis Patterson and E/S Burr from Orem

Interesting Church. . .again.  You'd think I'd get the pictures in a more proper order!

Going into the church with our heads covered

Inside the church; many altars of different types inside the church

War memorial to mothers who lost family members in WW II.

Inscription at the Holocost Memorial

Our Jewish taxi driver, Anton.  A wonderful man.  This memorial was very personal for him.

Member Lena and 2 of her children.  The church will dig a well on her property and also provide some fruit trees for her.

Elder and Sister Patterson resting in the Kyiv city center park

The Ukraine Kyiv Temple - absolutely beautiful

Elder and Sister Patterson, Sasha (our translator) and Vika (Sasha's fiance)

Ukraine Kyiv Temple situated on a hill overlooking a very busy street.  The grounds are beautiful and the local people are fascinated by them because it is so different from the grounds surrounding their local buildings.