The minutes of the general meeting (in French) can be read here shortly.

Steering committee.

  

All 3 travelled to Kiev Cardio Center (KCC) last October and had their diagnosis confirmed.

Svetlana A. and Olga S. in Kiev

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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).

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).

Nikolay in Kiev

Here you can read the first and second article about Nikolay.

Please consider making an online donation to help Nikolay.

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.

Toilet ‘before’ renovation

Donations can be made here.

Please consult our list of ongoing projects in Ukraine.

Thank you very much for your kind support!

Latest pictures can be found here.