Rita and Oksana, children at the Odessa charity “The Way Home,” put on a small dance performance for the others; a hip hop style dance to the sounds of classical music. For the audience it was surprising to see how the girls managed to dance to “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi with the music and [...]
Archive for February, 2010
With great enthusiasm now not only the children of “The Way Home” itself, but also children who have returned to their families from Odessa charities, attend the dance lessons given by Oksana Maksimenko. The dance lessons involved a form of “musical plastic surgery” – strengthening individual muscle groups and developing movement. All these exercises were [...]
- The happiest cats in the world live on the premises of “The Way Home.” The children adore each and every kitten. They feed them, play with them and even sleep with them. The kids are now giving back to these even more vulnerable creatures the care and attention that they themselves never received at [...]
- What’s the difference between a mammoth and a mastodon? What were the teeth of a sabre toothed tiger like? What was life like in general in prehistoric times? The children from “The Way Home” found out the answers to these questions from the curators at the Odessa Anthropological Museum, where they went for an [...]

