10 years Les Amis de Svieta (Switzerland)

In November 2010 we celebrated our 10th anniversary!
10 years
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Vika visits Switzerland

Today, 20:25 Vika has landed at Zurich airport. She will spend a few days in Switzerland, to visit sponsors and to spend a few days in the mountains. On Sunday Vika will be attending the 10th anniversary celebration of Les Amis de Svieta in Saint-Brais, as special guest.

vika-at-airport Vika at Zurich airport

Visit to Natasha, Rosa and Liocha

They live on the eleventh floor of a 13 foor buildung, which is well situated. Across the street there is a market and at the intersection they can find two supermarkets for shopping (provided they have money left for shopping). The subway is beeing extended to this intersection and many local bus lines stop there too.

natashas-house Entrance

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Trip report fall 2010

Sunday November 7th
Pascal has finally arrived back home in Fribourg. The plane had a huge delay due to fog in Prague.
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Flu vaccine for NBH

Winter season is coming and chief doctor Olga Ivanovna of Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) asked for help financing flu vaccine this year again.
LAdS USA, like for last few years has committed the required US$ 1,000 to ensure injection for each and every child at NBH.

NBH_2010_vaccine_2

A huge and sincere THANK YOU to LAdS USA and its donators :-)

Rosa is 3 months old

Rosa celebrated her 3 months birthday. Galina went to visit the family in their home and brought them presents.

Rosa is 3 months old Rosa

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Natasha’s family has found a flat

On Monday August 16th, Natasha, Rosa and Liocha moved into their 1 room flat, that Galina (Galya) managed to find for them.

Natasha's family flat Liocha in entrance hall

It has not been easy, but Galya was able to organize official registration of Natasha with her new born child Rosa and to find a nice little flat not far from Natasha’s school.
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LAdS Newsletter 2010

We regularly inform our members on the way in which their donations are used by semi-annual (or to be more precise, after each trip to Ukraine :-) ) publishing of a short “Newsletter”.

The Newsletter July 2010 is online!
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Urgent help needed for Vika & Vera (update)

Update as of July 25th, 2010
Thanks to the generosity of a U.S. sponsor close to our partner organization OBS, funding was found this week.
A big thank you to the sponsor :-)

Request for donation dated July 11th, 2010
Beginning of June we reported that Vika & Vera would be operated in Evpatoriya. Last week Vika and both girls made the trip to the orthopedic center in Evpatoriya (Crimea).

Nap time Vika and Vera in Evpatoriya

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A baby is born

Baby shoes with ribbon
Today July 13th around 9 o’clock in the morngin in the city of Lyubotyn, Natasha gave birth to Rosa, 2.9 kg and 53 centimeters. Mother and daughter are doing well, although suffering from heatwave in Eastern Ukraine. Rosa is Cancer and is born on the year of the Tiger (chinese zodiacal sign).
We wish her and her parents all the best and are very proud to be her godparents. Only to a little extent of course ;-)

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