General Assembly 2008
The general assembly of our association took place on November 21st, 2008 at the Hôtel Restaurant Bel-Air in Praz.
The minutes of the general meeting (in French) can be read here shortly.
Steering committee.
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.
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!
Anti flue vaccine for NBH
Winter season is not far. Chief doctor Olga of Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) has asked to help them pay for anti flue 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!
Planned trip end of November - beginning of December
It is confirmed, Pascal sets out again to Ukraine for a new marathon of approximately 2 weeks (from November 22nd till December 5th) through all the country. Jim from LAdS USA and Tom will be joining him for some of these visits.
All families who would like to pass news of their child/children to an orphanage visited are cordially invited to forward them as fast as possible by email or by snail mail to the address which you can find here.
The principal goals of this trip will be:
- Visit Olga Igorivna at her school in Kachovka
- Visit Director at Nikolaiev Baby House as well as all children currently (and possibly new one as well) supported by LAdS
- Visit to an Odessa orphanage in the name of a Spanish family who is willing to help them
- Visit to HIV specialized orphanage of Makiivka (Dontesk region) supported by our partner organization OBS
- Visit to Kharkov to meet with Galina and possibly go to ZGO (Zeleniy Gay orphanage) and ZGI (Zeleniy Gay boarding school)
- Visit to Kremenchuk Baby House to assess 2008 achieved projects and look at new ones
Further donations are needed to support this trip
and can be made here and if you live in the United States here!
Ukrainian orphans need a bailout!
Orphans in Ukraine and “Les Amis de Svieta” need a bailout, too.
Hank Paulson isn’t about to send any of the $700 billion you’re being forced to pay to help Ukrainian orphans, so we have to turn to you for help.
Please donate to help pay monthly expenses and continue to save orphans’ lives.
Donations can be made here.
Please consult our list of ongoing projects in Ukraine.
Thank you very much for your kind support!
General assembly 2008
The general assembly of this association takes place on November 21st, 2008at the Hôtel Restaurant Bel-Air in Praz.
The meeting will start at 19:30.
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. Appointment of vote counters
3. Approval of Minutes
4. Treasurer’s Report 2006 and 2007
5. Presidential Report
6. Operational Report
7. Future Activities
8. Election of auditors
9. Date of next general assembly
10. Others
After the meeting we will enjoy a nice dinner together, for which we will pay individually. This will give us a further opportunity to discuss how we can help Ukrainian orphans best.
The minutes (in French) of the last general meeting, dated December 8th, 2006 can be read here.
Steering committee.
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.
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).
Call for donation and news about Nikolay
Updated news as of July 27th 2008 can be read here.
Updated news as of June 15th 2008 can be read here.
Updated news as of May 28th 2008
In March 2008 Nikolay was taken to the Institute of Urology. The doctors were glad to see him again and admitted that he had made unexpected progress in physical development (the boy really has grown a lot). The chief doctor of the hospital called several other doctors, they had a conference and they came to the conclusion that Nikolay can be operate in Kiev. The operation will take place on May 12th.
Nikolay will be accompanied and looked after by a nurse. Transportation to Kiev, operation and accomodation for two months will cost approx. $ 4,000 (CHF 4,000 or € 2,500).
Here you can read the first and second article about Nikolay.
Please consider making an online donation to help Nikolay.
Bathroom renovation in Nikolaiev Baby House, funding needed!
Updated news as of July 15th, 2008 can be read here.
Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) consists of 12 groups of children from 0 to 4 years of age. Last year, thanks to a generous sponsor, NBH was able to replace all old windows in the children’s bathrooms of each group.
In 2008 Director Olga Ivanovna from NBH would like to repair the children’s bathrooms, replace all water pipes and all sewage pipes as well. This project costs a total of 78,000 US$ for all 12 bathrooms, or approximately 6,500 US$ for each bathroom.
As soon as we have sufficient funds available for the first bathroom we will start and then as we receive more funds continue with a bathroom at the time. We are asking for your kind help to start this project now.
Donations can be made here.
Please consult our list of ongoing projects in Ukraine.
Thank you very much for your kind support!
New pictures of Montessori outdoor playground
The children of Nikolaiev Baby House can now enjoy the fully equipped Montessori outdoor playground and enjoy the beautiful weather too.
Latest pictures can be found here.
LAdS has got a new car
Previous LAdS car was sold successfully. Thanks to generous donations Les Amis de Svieta Ukraine and Vika are motorized again 
Our Mazda is a 2nd hand car that has been sold by a bank. It is two years old and has just 40,000 kilometers.
Further pictures of new car can be seen here.
News of Nataliya and Ilona
Updated news as of June 30th, 2008 can be read here.
On November 4th, once financing was secured, we took Ilona and Nataliya by car to the orthopedics in Evpatoriya (Crimea).
Svieta USA officially registered as non-profit
Les Amis de Svieta USA, Inc. has officially been registered as a non-profit organization in the United States and has opened a bank account allowing sponsors to send their donation tax free.
Please read here how Les Amis de Svieta USA, Inc. was established.
Check to be made payable to:
Les Amis de Svieta USA, Inc.
Attn. Jim Smith
302 Orchard Lane
Clarkesville, GA 30523
Bank contact is:
Habersham Bank, in Clarkesville, GA
It’s also possible to wire money by contacting Jim Smith,
Svieta car success story
Les Amis de Svieta Ukraine has been motorized since April 2006!
The Peugeot was registered in Ukraine in the name of our local representative Vika.
In two years we traveled 35,774 km, we visited numerous orphanages, baby houses and boarding schools and we transported many children to hospitals, e.g. Nikolay, Vitaly, Irina, Natascha, Illona, Vika, Julia, Ekaterina and Olga.
Thanks to this car our association was much more mobile in Ukraine and we could reduce travel expenses while at the same time increase our efficiency by at least a factor of two. We simply couldn’t have done all the things we did.
Pictures of this success story can be seen here.
Due to changes in Ukrainian car registration law we couldn’t continue to drive and use this car and Vika had to sell it, which she managed successfully.
What do we do now without a car?
We are looking to purchase an other car, one that satisfies Ukrainian regulations, one that is big enough to travel savely with two nurses and two children, one that is reliable enough to cope with Ukrainian weather and road conditions, one that is save to drive, one that is clean and doesn’t use too much petrol to save money. In other words, we are looking for a rather costly car, considering Ukrainian used car prices.
Help required for final Montessori certification in Nikolaiev
Updated news as of May 28th 2008 can be read here!
In order to complete Montessori certification in spring 2008 Nikolaiev Baby House needs a kit of special Montessori educational toys. Cost to buy those Montessori toys (called “standard” kit) is US$ 1,000 (~ € 750 or ~ CHF 1,200)
Before final Montessori certification NBH staff needs to attend a final training course in Kiev which costs for travel and subsistence US$ 300 (~ € 220 or ~ CHF 360).
More about Montessori pilot project can be read here and here.
Pictures can be seen here und here.
