Update on Andrey

If you haven't read about our efforts to help our IVA graduate Andrey, go here....

With help from some South Africans in my parent's church we were able to figure out who to call in Cape Town to get started.  They suggested a major hospital to start with and a person there (ironically named Andrew - the English equivalent of Andrey) offered to call around the local hospitals looking for someone that matched Andrey's description.  This was a massive blessing and we were told by the aforementioned South Africans that this kind of helpfulness is not very common in their experience.

Back to Andrey....  Andrew the helpful turned him up at a small private hospital and one call to them yielded the phone number for Andrey's room.  Tanya and Andrey's mom both spoke to him but didn't learn very much about what happened.  There are still a lot of questions including what happened to him, how he got to the hospital, why he is in such an exclusive facility and how we get him home.  

As it turns out he does have his passport so that takes care of one major hurdle but now we stuck with a lot of people who don't want to do anything.  The shipping company says that they don't know what happened and whatever transpired isn't their fault or responsibility.  Thus far the Ukrainian government hasn't been very concerned with aiding one of citizens that's in trouble.  The South Africans don't have much to go on (since Andrey can't remember anything) and little reason to pursue the issue - they have plenty of violence issues of their own to handle.  We're still working but in the short term is good to know where he is, that he's being cared for and that he is doing ok, if very dopey on medication.