Operation Ukraine lighting candles in the children’s dark

Colombus-Miss. What does a cold, wet five-year-old girl begging in a Ukrainian bus station at night have to do with saving landfills in the United States? How could this little girl's plight lead to the formation of a charity called Operation Ukraine? The connecting threads are woven in the heart of a woman named Kathy Cadden. Cadden's niece and her friend found the little girl when they were in the Ukraine during a church youth mission several years ago. They could not leave the poor child to spend the night in such a dangerous place with temperatures below freezing. Taking the little girl to their room, they fed, washed and clothed her. She said her name was Jenya. The next day Jenya showed them where she lived. They learned her mother frequently locked her out of the house and forced her to beg at the bus station.