Visiting Olga Igorivna in Kakhovka
On September 16th 2009 Pascal, Vika and Olga Ivanovna (NBH director) visited Olga Igorivna (Olga) in Kakhovka. Les Amis de Svieta supports Olga for more than 1 year (and at least 2 more to go). The aim of this support is to allow Olga to learn a profession. We visited Olga for the first time in November 2006 and did on a regular basis ever since. In September 2007, Olga started her studies at technical agricultural school in Kakhovka. Our last visit to Olga took place almost a year ago, November 23rd 2008.
Olga was awaiting us eagerly and was happy to show us her new room on 2nd floor, which is in much better condition and nicer than the previous 4th floor room. Unfortunately kitchen, toilet and bathroom are still in an unacceptably bad condition (for us).
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 
April trip report
Sunday April 13th
Mission completed
Pascal and Vika have arrived late at night in Nuremberg, after extremly long queing at the Ukrainian - Hungarian border and after some mechanical problems with the car. All is well that ends well.
Thursday April 10th
After they resolved the last tiny details they are now ready to drive to Germany 
Wednesday April 9th
Finally, done! They have obtained all the necessary papers to drive back to Germany by car. After endless discussions and long hours waiting they have received just what they were entitled by law anyway, nothing more.
The story of a girl from Zurupinsk continues…
Olga Igorivna has found a new school and has started on September 1st, 2007 to study at Kachovsky state agricultural technical school. She decided to go to this technical school in Kachovka, rather than to the school in Snigurivka, because it is closer to where she used to live.
Olga is doing a preparatory year before starting technical school. She takes lessons in math, physics, Ukraine and English language, Ukraine and foreign literature, chemistry, biology and world history. Quite a comprehensive list of subjects, isn’t it?
In 2011, when she will graduate from Kahovsky State Agricultural Technical School, she will have a diploma as ‘технолога пищевой промышленности’ which translates to ‘technologist of the food-processing industry’.
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.
Montessori classroom in Kherson Baby House
Director Svetlana Petrovna of Kherson Baby House has received the mandate to carry out a pilot project of a Montesorri classroom, similar to the one we helped realize for Nikolaiev Baby House in 2006.
For more information about the classroom in Nikolaiev please read this article or that article.
The Kherson Baby House windows replacement project is finished!
The 2nd and 3rd phase of this long-term project are finished to everybody’s satisfaction. The results are very impressive 
The story of a girl from Zurupinsk
Olga Igorivna was born on August 25th 1986. Her parents refused her at the maternity hospital because of multiple medical problems. She stayed at Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) till September 1992, during which time she had many surgery operations.
December 2006 Director Olga Ivanovna from NBH, who stayed in contact with her even after her departure from NBH, contacted us and asked for help.
A sad and really touching story where we wanted to help.
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.
First phase of Kherson Baby House windows replacement project is terminated!!
The deadlines were met! The first phase of the project started last May is completed (see earlier articles to this project here and there) .
News regarding Kherson Baby House windows replacement project
During the September/October trip, we went to Kherson to start this project which we initiated back in May 2006 (to see the previous article on this subject).
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!
Kherson Baby House windows replacement project
During 2005, we’ve got in touch (through Internet) with an Irish family who adopted in Kherson Baby House. They were thrilled to hear we were visiting that orphanage and have asked us to transmit pictures and letters as well as to asess their needs…
