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!
Gas burner project at Zeleniy Gay
Updated news here!
Last year, we carried out a project to supply well water to the specialized orphanage of Zeleniy Gay (Kharkov region). We made a control visit last April and can state that everything functions in the best way and thanks to this project, the orphanage could save half of operating expenses for fresh water supply.
This brought orphanage director another idea: consider a similar operation for its two ancient gas-burners (one of which doesn’t even run anymore).
Trip report fall 2007
Friday October 12th
Pascal is back home in Switzerland.
Pictures and more detailed reports will follow, once Pascal has recovered from this trip.
April trip report
Sunday April 29th
Flight back via Budapest to Zurich, with a mess in Budapest… 
Friday April 27th
The road back to Nikolaiev was full of police controls. Vika always gets along well with police. Other than many kilometers there isn’t much news to report today 
. Ah yes, spring finally seems to arrive to Ukraine!
Thursday April 26th
Today, we visited in the name of OBS school internat (boarding school) at Zeleniy Gay and on behalf of LAdS France we visited specialized orphanage ZGO. We decided to finance a new heating system as continuation of the water project.
Little Vika is recovering well three days after her difficult operation.
Well water drilling project in Zeleniy Gay is completed
The well water drilling project in Zeleniy Gay has evolved into a drinking water supply project and is finished now. At the time of our visit last October, the building protecting the intermediate storage tank was in the course of completion.
September/October trip report
Sunday, October 15th
Flight back via Munich, where I will stay a week for business.
Saturday, October 14th
We succeeded in finishing the purchase of the Montessori material at the market of Nikolaiev, not without difficulty. The remainder of the day was devoted to the assessment of the voyage and to the accounting.
Friday, October 13th
We spent the day trying to resolve the many last open points and to return to the Baby House of Nikolaiev. Great news: director Olga Ivanovna is invited to a series of seminars on health in Germany and Switzerland! Partly thanks to our assistance, she will leave tomorrow for a long trip by bus which will take her among other places also to Zurich, Bern and Geneva!
Donation for Krasnokutsk
Before the journey in November 2004 we had been tasked by a French family to deliver post to Krasnokutsk (Kharkov Oblast). It was our first visit to this orphanage for children from 4 to 8 years, which is in outstanding condition…
First visit to Internat at Zeleniy Gay
During the trip to Ukraine in May 2006, we had the possibility to visit the internat at Zeleniy Gay for the first time.
Well water drilling project in Zeleniy Gay
The drilling project to reach well water at Zeleniy Gay specialized orphanage is now finished.
Unfortunately, they have now found out that water pressure from the drill/pump is not sufficient to ensure water supply for all floors in all buildings. You can see some images of it here!
We are thus initiating a second phase to this project and are now evaluating different solutions to alleviate this problem.
Stay tuned!
Let’s help the HIV positive orphans in Zeleniy Gay!!!
At the end of 2003, Kharkov local Health Department decided to group in one single location all HIV positive orphans which were dispersed in different clinics all across the district. They choose the site of "Zeleniy Gay" specialized orphanage (25 km away from Kharkov city) where an old house (separated from the other buildings) was available.
First action in Kharkov
Pictures below illustrate the results of a support action launched in March 2003 by Sylvie Truchot with help from "Les Amis de Svieta". This first action was aimed at providing orphanage children with most urgently required goods.
