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!
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…
