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Children’s day at NBH
On June 1st, Ukraine celebrated Children’s Day. It has become a good tradition at NBH to invite sponsors for a concert organized by children.
The atmosphere of the holiday was in the air: nicely decorated concert hall, children in national costumes, presents, songs and dances….
Flowers for Nikolaiev Baby House
Olga Ivanovna (director of NBH) takes care of the children at the orphanage on different levels. She also pays a lot of attention to childrens spiritual development.
Green, nicely decorated flowerbeds at the orphanage are part of this process.
Nikolaiev Baby House laundry renovation
Update from March 26th, 2013
Repair of main laundry room of NBH is now terminated. It is not only clean and nice but also meets all sanitary requirements. The laundry is now fit to handle daily load of lining and children clothes.Water supply and sewage systems have been completely replaced. This avoid high humidity in the room as it was with previous leaking one.
We heartedly thank everybody who donated money to this project. THANK YOU!
There are still some repairs to be done in other rooms of the laundry, like replace some windows and floors, for example.
Please visit this page to find out how you can donate!
Or just click on the “PayPal Donate” logo in the right column.
Alla needs heart surgery, please help
Update from April 3rd
Alla travelled to Children’s Cardio Center in Kiev and was successfully operated in the beginning of March.
Post operation period ran more or less smoothly for about a month and Alla came back home, to NBH.
At the moment she’s doing great, her life is out of danger and we heartedly thank our American friends and sponsors Helen and Jim, who paid for the operation and helped to safe her life. A BIG THANK YOU!!! more
Flu vaccine for NBH 2012
As always at the beginning of winter 2012 Olga Ivanovna (chief doctor of NBH) requested our help to pay for anti flu injections…. And as always our American friends and sponsors Helen and Jim Smith agreed to help and pay for vaccination. With the help of their money more than 150 doses were bought.
Karina has Apert Syndrom
Karina was born on Christmas Eve (24.12) in 2009 and abandoned by her mother right after birth at maternity hospital. The girl has a very rare disease: Apert syndrome, which results in an unusual head shape, mental and physical delay. As side effect of this illness Karina has been unlucky to get complete syndactyly (fusion of all fingers and toes).
[singlepic=959,250,200,,center]Karina Karina is living at NBH since 2010.
Please visit this page to find out how you can help Karina!
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Viktoriya Yurjevna urgently needs kidney transplantation – please help
Viktoriya Yurjevna (Vika) was born on January 22nd 2001. She comes from socially unstable family, her mother was a drug addict and died in 2010. Her father is alcohol addicted, unemployed and has no permanent place to live. In November 2012 the girl was taken away from her father by court decree. Now Vika is an orphan and lives at NBH Nikolaiev Baby House). more
Trip report spring 2012
Friday May 25th
Mission accomplished 🙂
Our 2 adventurers are back home, dead tired but alive!Saturday May 19th
Anya brought Pascal and Jerôme to the historical part of the city and guided them to the main places (Golden Gate, St-Sophia, St-Andrey and St-Michael churches).
They went for a short cruise on Dniepr river and ended the day on Kiev’s main street: Kreschatik passing by Independence square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti). They were very lucky with weather although forecast was originally pretty bad. Pascal and Jerôme really enjoyed Anya’s professional guide and translator services.Friday May 18th
Jerôme & Pascal left Nikolaiev and Vika in the morning for Kiev where they have met with Anya who will be their translator for their weekend in the capital city of Ukraine.
That 500 Kms trip was quite a challenge for two non Russian speakers 🙂 and although they were stopped once by road police and chose a restaurant which menu was in Russian only, they managed to arrive on schedule and find the flat Vika had reserved for them downtown. moreOlga Igorivna has her own room
Olga has finally received a small room from the Ukrainian government. It is small, but it is her own. Thanks to Olga’s Swiss sponsor we were able to renovate that room and make it nice and cozy.
[singlepic=947,250,200,,center]Olga’s new kitchen
This is an other important step for Olga on her move to independence. She now has an education, she now has a job and earns some money and she now has her own room. Well done Olga! more
Renovation projects in Nikolaiev Baby House
There are 13 groups of about 10 children between 0 and 4 years old in Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH). As new project for 2012, Director Olga Ivanovna would like to refurbish the remaining 6 kitchenettes (which were not made at the same time as bathrooms) as well as replace floors in sleeping and living rooms of each group.
