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TALES FROMTHE FUTURE
GIVE CHILDREN A HOMELAND
From the book by Vladimir Megre "The Energy of Life"
(translated by Marian Schwartz)
In Ukraine, there is a city called Kharkov. In this city there is a children’s
home. It is a fine children’s home: comfortable buildings, a handsome aquar-
ium, a large pool. The local authorities made an effort and entrepreneurs
helped. The director of the municipal office of public education showed me
the buildings and told me how the children from this home attend an ordin-
ary school. I looked out the window. The children were coming back from
school in groups. Just one little girl was walking apart from everyone else.
“That’s Sonya. She’s in the first grade,” the director told me. “She always
walks alone. She believes a Jewish family is going to adopt her soon.”
“Why Jewish? She doesn’t look like a Jewish child. She has blond hair and
looks more like a Ukrainian.”
“Someone in school told her that Sonya is a Jewish name, so she’s a Jew.
Sonya agreed with this nationality and immediately decided she was defin-
itely going to be adopted by a Jewish family. But she walks alone all the time
because she thinks that if she walks in the group her future parents won’t be
able to notice her.”
There is a fine children’s home in Kharkov. There are children’s homes in
other cities in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Children live in them. And no
matter how comfortable the buildings of these places are, the children
dream of having parents, of belonging to a family.
Skinny little first-grader Sonya walked her purposeful walk across the as-
