As part of becoming an official organisation we were required to set up a Board of directors in Russia. By Russian law they can be Russian or foreign but must have a current visa. To us we wanted people whom we could trust and who has a similar heart to us to see House of Grace and Hope grow and support for Orphan Russian teenagers.

Tracy Harrison

Chairman and Co-Founder

Tracy Harrison is 39 years of Age and grew up in Newcastle Australia, then later moved to Bunbury in Western Australia, where they settled before relocating to Russia. As a teenager she trained as a hairdresser and later in Bunbury retrained as a Special Needs Assistant in particular with a heart for teenagers who had been through trauma.
Tracy came to Sakhalin 6 and a ½ years ago with a desire to work with orphans and post orphans. Her Husband and their 3 children Luke (17), Jake (16) and Becky (15) started “House of Grace and Hope” unofficially in 2004 with the first live in teenager. Currently they have an average of  6-10 young adult orphans. When Tracy is not working  in the house for House of Grace and Hope she is  working locally hairdressing and teaching English to help support the house cost.
Tracy’s hope is to see House of Grace and Hope grow and help more orphans is Sakhalin. She loves Sakhalin , she loves the Russian people, the snow but mostly her  huge family and hopes to be in Sakhalin for the long term.

 

Peter Harrison
Board member and Co-Founder

Peter is 40 years old and is a co-founder of House of Grace & hope in Sakhalin. Peter was born in Australia & grew-up with his parents and sister in Newcastle, New South Wales.  He met & married Tracy in 1993. After training as an Electrician he accepted a position at Mount Piper power station near Lithgow, New South Wales.
Tracy and Peter then moved to Lithgow to where they had their 3 children Luke, Jacob & Rebekah. They moved to Bunbury, Western Australia in 1996 to take a position as Operator at Collie Power station.

The opportunity came upon hearing about Love for Kids Russia. After a 2 week trip to Sakhalin in 2004 Peter and his wife Tracy returned home, finished working and sold all un-necessary belongings & moved to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.

He and his family ran House of Grace and Hope as a care centre for the youths they had met in the local orphanages.

Peter Mikhalovich

Board Member

Tatiana Onikova

Board Member