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  1. Donations qualify for tax exemption

    Donations made to the Swiss branch of ‘Amis de Svieta – Friends of Svieta’ are tax-deductible in Switzerland!
    The following applies only to people paying Swiss taxes!

    The association qualified for tax exemption as certified by the canton Bern (in order to read or to print this document you need the software Adobe Acrobat® which can be downloaded for free from here).
    At the beginning of each year we will automatically send you a certificate allowing you to claim a tax exemption on your taxes with your canton (please check with your local tax authorities for validity of the above tax exempt statement).

    Thank you so much for your donation!

  2. Vreni and Thomas visited Ukraine

    Updated news May 18, 2018
    Bye bye Kiev.

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  3. Françoise, Christophe and Sergey visiting Ukraine

    Updated news April 6th, 2018
    Today Hürlimann family went to visit KCC in Kiev, with Yaroslav.

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  4. Update on Olga’s health

    Updated news 19.07.2017 regarding German drugs for Olga!

    Back in August of 2015 Olga Ivanovna was diagnosed with cancer.
    In May of 2017 Olga IVanovna went to Kiev for a check-up.

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  5. New Swiss-Ukraine humanitarian help Association


    A new Swiss association helping Ukraine is born ! The “Association d’Entraide Humanitaire (AEH), Aidez Valérie” has recently been created in Wallis. more

  6. Little Sofia

    12.07.2017: Updated news regarding “little Sofia” here!

    Little Sofia was born with two serious diagnoses: congenital heart disease and cleft palate. more

  7. Urgent assistance for medicaments for NBH

    Updated news regarding “medicaments for NBH” project here!

    The Ukrainian government pays 0.08 euros for medications per child per day. For 200 children, the budget per month is 500 euros, which is not nearly enough. Medications have become 5x more expensive since the crisis began 3 years ago, yet budget remained the same!

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  8. Art Therapy update

    Updated news 7.5.2017 regarding “Art Therapy” after second Art Therapies has graduated here!

    Almost six months have passed since the launching of the new art therapy rehabilitation program. It has become the most favorite occupation for all children at NBH. The project has overcome all, even the most optimistic prognoses and expectations. Children just love it. And the results are also incredible: the most “difficult” and closed children reveal their inner world, gain trust toward grown-ups. more

  9. More shoes for Zurupinsk boarding school

    At the end of 2016 ZuBS wrote us a letter with the request to help them again with shoes for children, which still remain one of the biggest problems for the boarding school.

    And again without any further hesitations our friend and sponsor Hanni decided to help. She bought 50 pairs of shoes and we sent them to Zurupinnsk.

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  10. Training course for NBH personel

    LAdS has always known that all the reconstructions and all the modern equipment without highly qualified personnel is absolutely useless. Only thanks to the training and high-quality work experience of doctors, therapists and nurses all rehabilitation programs are so successful and show such super impressive results. more