Maidan

and encouragement.

Alas, the projected cost of national orphanage reform is in the hundreds of millions of dollars at this point, out of range for individual donors. Money is actually very likely available, but it's going to take some convincing. Photos will tell the story like nothing else can.

I'll enter a Maidan update shortly, with a summary of costs and strategy. Yushchenko is showing signs of life on the issue. My instinct is that this is nearing critical information mass, with some media and activists beginning to take some interest.

I think very few people really grasp the reality of the situation, and those that already knew just didn't say anything for a variety of reasons.

It comes down to a very simple Truth: Ukraine cannot possibly expect to join Europe while hiding concentration camps or death camps. I know those are harsh, seemingly provocative terms, but those are phrases used by independent eye-witnesses.