Svieta becomes Anna Grace…

This is an archive page of Les Amis de Svieta from 2000-2021

During his visit of Nikolaiev orphanage in December 2001, Pascal left a letter for Svieta’s parents to the manager Olga Ivanovna (together with Vika on this picture).

We begged her to organize its forwarding because we did not have the address.


It was like a “message in a bottle” letter in which we were asking for Svieta news. Also hoping that we could maybe set up a link with the family of the girl through which everything started.And at the end of January 2002, a wonderful surprise was in our email: Anna Grace’s parents sent us great news about her and her family.

Anna Grace found a home in a large and nice family adoring her.

Since December 2000, she lives in East US with siblings Laura, Kara, Katie, Greg, Matthew and Sam. Linda & Bob, her parents, organized her first operation back in October 2001 at “Boston Children’s Hospital” where Dr Mulliken (one the world best specialist in facial reconstruction surgery) and his staff have performed miracles! Anna Grace has had a second surgery in October 2002 in the same place, by the same team. Operation was very successful again and improvements are amazing.

We are very pleased with these very good news and very proud that Anna Grace family has accepted to stay in touch to continue to inform us on her progression.