Max’s Legacy - Safety and Security for a Samara Orphanage
    
    Two and a half year old Max Rosen is too young to understand the outstanding acts of charity he has inspired. Michael and Marilyn Rosen’s love for their son has moved them to improve conditions for the children who remain in Samara’s Orphanage #2, where Max spent the precious first seven months of his life. Thanks to their efforts with the Jewish Community Foundation, the orphanage’s young residents have a much safer home.
    
    When Max came home in 2004, the fence around the orphanage was already deteriorating. It was broken in many places, and vagrants were able to climb over it, threatening the children’s safety. It was also impossible to keep any play structures outdoors on the orphanage grounds, because the equipment was vulnerable to theft. The Rosens and their family foundation generously underwrote the cost of constructing a new fence. The photo here does not do justice to the project, as the new fencing is made completely of metal and surrounds the entire orphanage campus (4 miles in all). The orphanage staff is thrilled with the results.
    
    The Rosens and the Jewish Community Foundation have kindly pledged their support to another construction project in Samara. Thanks to their generosity, Orphanage #2 will also be receiving a new electronic gate which will allow visitors to enter securely.
    
    
    
    
    Translation of letter:
    
    Municipal Establishment of the City of Samara
    Children’s Home “Little One”
    
    
    
    To the President
    Frank Foundation Child Assistance International
    Nina Borisovna Kostina
    
    From the Head Doctor of Municipal Children’s Home “Malish”
    L.P. Rukosuevaya
    
    Dear Ms. Kostina,
    
    We thank you for your foundation’s gift of charitable funds towards the installation of a new fence for the orphanage. Now drug addicts do not gather on our grounds and we can leave our play equipment and carriages on the street.
    
    We would like to ask for additional funds for automatic gates, so that our duty employee may open and close the gates without exiting the orphanage building. Enclosed are photos of the new fence.
    
    
    
    Head Doctor
    Municipal Children’s Home “Little One”
    L.P. Rukosuevaya