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Co-President:
Carol Schmidt
Justine Petit
Vice President:
Lisa Freedman
Treasurer:
Kay Tracy
Newsletter Editor:
Nora Newman
Grow Bag Coordinator:
Gina Pollock
Internet Contact:
Gina Pollock
Orphanage Support:
Gina Pollock
South Central PA Contact:
Gina Pollock

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FRUA-PA ANNOUNCEMENTS - YAHOO LIST
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FRUA PA is a 501c3 non-profit organized to support and assist adoptive families with children from Russia, Ukraine and Neighboring Countries. We offer cultural, social and educational opportunities for adults and children. FRUA PA currently has 92 members with children from: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Lithuania. If you are looking for a supportive, friendly adoption community, please consider joining us!

FRUA National Announcements

FRUA Scolarship Program: For the fourth year, FRUA is proud to offer a scholarship program. Last year, we expanded our scholarship offerings. We offer the same scholarships this year to deserving students:
- TWO scholarships to high school seniors who will be pursuing post-secondary education in fall 2012 at an accredited two or four-year college, trade or technical school. The top award will be $1,500; a second student will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
- ONE scholarship to a returning or continuing post-secondary student. Recognizing that most scholarships are for first-year students but education expenses can continue for several years, we will award $1,000 to a student already enrolled in post-secondary education.
-ONE scholarship to a student who is a dependent child of a FRUA Chapter leader/Board member; we will award $500 to the selectee.
All applicants must be a FRUA member’s dependent child adopted from Eastern Europe/Eurasia/Caucasus. All applications must be postmarked by March 17, 2012. Applications may be downloaded at the FRUA website: http://www.frua.org/resources/scholarship-20120117204421

 
Upcoming FRUA PA Events 

FRUA-PENNSYLVANIA

Winterfest The Pennsylvania Chapter for Families of Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA) would like to invite you to our annual Winter Holiday Festival on February 12, 2012 from 1:00-4;00. We will have a FREE Russian catered luncheon and Professional performances from Father Frost and Granddaughter, as well as Russian vocalists. There will be plenty of activities for the children hosted by international aupair volunteers. GoAupair is gladly providing us with volunteers, sweets and sponsorship for our celebration!For further information and to RSVP, please contact Carol Schmidt: jeffandcarol229@yahoo.com

 
Joining FRUA-PA


Membership in FRUA-PA is $35 per family/year. This includes free or reduced admission to our social events, educational seminars, quarterly newsletters containing educational, social and cultural articles of interest to adoptive families, and the national FRUA newsletter Family Focus. Moreover, it gives you immediate support and access to other families who have adopted from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and children your adopted child can play with, interact with, and grow up with who have gone through the same experiences. Our families have found that there is no roadmap to guide new parents of adoptive children from the former Soviet Union, so we've turned to the real experts - other families. We can help you prepare for your adoption experience and support you after you return home

To join FRUA, go to: www.frua.org and click on Membership, be sure to select Pennsylvania.

 Members Only Benefits

FRUA Scholarship

FRUA PA Newsletter

FRUA's Family Focus - The Family Focus provides information, inspiration, and support to FRUA members. Published quarterly, it seeks to meet the myriad needs of members, with articles on a broad range of topics, from health and development to education, culture and heritage, and general adoption material.

Grow Bag Program

FRUA-PA operates a chapter-affiliated Grow Bag Program. Grow bags are given to adopting parents and are filled with good donations (clothing, over-the-counter medicines, toiletries, and developmental toys) collected by our membership. The bags are hand delivered to the orphanage by the traveling family. The family then returns the Grow Bag back to FRUA-PA to be refilled for the next traveling family. Participation in the Grow Bag is availble only to FRUA members.


FRUA-PA member Michele delivering Grow Bag to Russian Orphange

 

FRUA-PA Opportunities:

Volunteers Needed! We need volunteers to help us run events, coordinate activities and just generally pitch in to help. Contact Jennifer Greenman for more information (link to email in left hand column).

Help us raise funds: Subscribe to, or renew your subscription to, Adoptive Families Magazine and they will donate $5 to FRUA PA.Use this code when ordering: Q092624

Help us increase membership: FRUA-PA is looking for families from the following regions who are interested in forming sub-chapters: Northeastern PA, Southwestern PA, and Northwestern PA. We have groups currently forming in Central PA and Southcentral PA. For more information, please contact Jennifer Greenman, FRUA-PA President (link to email in lefthand column).


 
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