Category Nikolaiev

Bathroom renovation in Nikolaiev Baby House, finished!

Update as of October 25th 2010
One single group still needs bathroom and group kitchen renovation. Hopefully we’ll be able to make it happen in 2011 to finally terminate this long haul project.
You may, at your leisure, browse through NBH bathrooms project pictures here.

Update as of March 1st 2010
We are down to 3 bathrooms that need to be repaired.
We have ordered one bathroom to be renovated and work on this job has started today. 2 more need to be done and we are looking for sponsors to finish this project.
Cost is US$ 6,000.- (€ 4’000.- or CHF 6’000.-) for each remaining bathroom.

Please help finish this project ;)

Thank you very much for your kind support!

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 01.03.2010 at 21:52

Efficiency enhancement in heating system at NBH

Update as of February 23rd, 2010
Mission accomplished :-)

In spite of difficulties we managed to finish partial renovation of the heating system before beginning of winter. And, as you perhaps read it in the press, this winter was particularly hard and snowy in Ukraine.
Director Olga Ivanovna is extremely grateful to our sponsors for having made it possible to the orphans to live during winter time in a heated home!

Update as of October 15th
We managed to secure financing for the whole project. A big thanks goes to our generous donors! But this time there is a delay on the construction side of this project. Also the new heating is already in operation, not everything is finished and we are holding back payment until every last bit is finished to our satisfaction.

one of the new heating elements

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 23.02.2010 at 12:00

Flu vaccine for NBH

Winter season is not far away. Chief doctor Olga of Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) asked for help financing flu vaccine again this year (we are talking about seasonal flu vaccine, not ‘swine flu’ vaccine!).
Thanks to a generous donation from LAdS USA, the flu vaccines needed for 2009 could be purchased and have been delivered.

delivery of anti flu vaccine

Injections have been given already and Chief doctor Olga and the kids from Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) are very grateful.

Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 09.10.2009 at 13:51

Trip report fall 2009

Saturday September 26th
Mission accomplished!
Pascal is back home in Switzerland, after 7,758 kilometers on the road. A daily average of 539 kilometers made this trip quite strenuous, but as always very rewarding and rich in experiences.
Friday September 25th
Vika and Pascal left by car from Zhytomir. Vika took a night train from Uzgorod to Nikolaiev and Pascal continued by car to Vienna, where he spent the night.
Thursday September 24th
The road from Kharkov to Kiev seemed never ending, but finally Pascal and Vika were able to drop off our friends from OBS, Stacey and Elizabeth, safely (they plan to fly back home on Saturday).
Afterwards Vika and Pascal continued to drive to Zhytomir, where they spent the night.

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 11.09.2009 at 09:46

PABX for Nikolaiev Baby House

Update 4th of April, 2009
For many years director Olga from Nikolaiev Baby House was begging for a suitable internal communication system.

An old telephone dated 1919

For external communication NBH uses today one single telephone line shared by three telephone sets. At present there is absolutely no internal communication system available. If director Olga or chief doctor Olga needs to reach their staff, they can currently choose between sending somebody to fetch the required staff or walk there themselves…
Vika has contacted the same supplier that installed a PABX system in Kremenchuk Baby House and asked for an offer. To satisfy the requirements of NBH, supplier proposed a PABX with 24 internal lines, 3 external lines and even the possibility to provide an intercom system with speakers. The whole system, including telephone sets, speakers, installation and all required cabling will cost at today’s exchange rate US$ 4,000 (€ 3,200 or CHF 4,800).

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 20.04.2009 at 08:28

Viktoriya needed heart surgery (update)

Updated news here!
Young Viktoriya arrived at Nikolaiev Baby House in November of 2006. Director Olga Ivanovna asked us to find a sponsor for urgently needed heart surgery at Kiev Cardio Center (KCC). Approximately at the same time we were contacted by Verena from New Zealand, who was looking to sponsor an orphan in Ukraine, a lucky coincidence.

Viktoriya aka ‘young Vika’

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 31.12.2008 at 07:08

Flu vaccine for NBH

December 6th 2008 update
Winter season is not far. Chief doctor Olga of Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) has asked to help them pay for flu vaccine this year again. At the moment there are 153 children at the orphanage who need to be vaccinated. Each dose costs 52 hrv. Injection has to be done twice with two weeks interval in between.
Total amount is 15,900hrv or US$ 2,650 (~ € 1’800 or ~ CHF 2’300).
Any help will be appreciated by Olga and the children.
Find out how you can make your donations here and if you live in the United States here!
or just click on the “PayPal Donate” button on the left column of this page!

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 06.12.2008 at 09:38

Trip report fall 2008

Friday December 5th
Mission completed :-)
Pascal has been driving from Nikolaiev to Odessa airport from where he is now flying via Prag to Zurich.
Thursday December 4th
Weather today is better, no rain and no fog.
After visiting the Baby House of Kremenchuk, Pascal and Vika are heading back to Nikolaiev, from where Pascal will be flying home to Switzerland tomorrow afternoon.
Wednesday December 3rd
Today it was still overcast, but less fog.
First, Pascal and Vika visited potential suppliers for Vika’s shop in Nikolaiev. Then they were heading for Kremenchuk. Today, as a bonus, it was also raining :-(

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 22.11.2008 at 09:00

3 new NBH children need a bailout

Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) director and chief Doctor Olga Ivanovna has presented us Svetlana Igorievna, Svetlana Anatolievna and Olga.
All three arrived to Nikolaiev Baby House with a congenital heart disease diagnosis that needs to be operated.

All 3 travelled to Kiev Cardio Center (KCC) last October and had their diagnosis confirmed.

Svetlana A. and Olga S. in Kiev

They all will need cardiac surgery very soon and we ask you for help and support in order to organize their next visit to KCC.
Considering girls actual health conditions, we foresee this operation for first quarter 2009.
Total amount required is US$ 3,600 (~ € 2’800 or ~ CHF 4’300).
Please help save the life of these three girls.
Find out how you can make your donations here and if you live in the United States here!
or just click on the “PayPal Donate” button on the left column of this page!

Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 13.11.2008 at 10:59

Bogdan needed urgently a heart operation

Olga Ivanovna, the director of NBH in Nikolaiev, has contacted us in July and requested urgent assistance for newborn Bogdan. Due to heart deformity ‚tetralogy of Fallot’ his life was in danger.

Bogdan

The health status of Bogdan was so unstable that he could not move from maternity home of the hospital to NBH. Chief doctor urged a speedy operation in the Kiev Cardio Center (KCC).

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Posted by Thomas Rudolf on 14.08.2008 at 13:12