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LAdS Newsletter 2011
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 December 2011 is online! more
10 years memory picture book
In order to celebrate our association anniversary even better, we have produced, working tightly together with CIH (Centre Informatique Handicap des Ateliers de la Gérine & des Préalpes), a 21 pages memory picture book containing over 150 images about our last 10 years of activities.
[singlepic=846,250,200,,center] more10 years Les Amis de Svieta (Switzerland)
In November 2010 we celebrated our 10th anniversary!
[singlepic=931,350,150,,center] moreTrip 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. moreUrgent 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).[singlepic=732,250,200,,center]Vika and Vera in Evpatoriya moreTrip report spring 2010
Friday May 28th
Vika, her mother Natasha and Pascal will be traveling by night train from Nikolaiev via Kiev to Berlin and Pascal will take an other train from Berlin back home to Switzerland. It will take him a few days to get home…
[singlepic=714,250,200,,center]Vika and Natasha in train back to Berlin
Thursday May 27th
Hanni and Tom were taken by a 4×4 taxi to the airport in Odessa – a 3 hours trip that used to take only 1.5 hours, the roads are now extremly bad.
[singlepic=658,250,200,,center]no rules seem to apply on the road
[singlepic=659,250,200,,center]click on image to see holes better
Vika and Pascal are staying an other day in Nikolaiev finishing business and accounting.
The incoming airplane in Odessa was late, departure was late, connection in Prague was missed, but in the end Hanni and Tom made it back to Switzerland on the same day. moreTrip to Kiev, Spring 2010
In spring of 2010 we organized for children from Kremenchuk and from Nikolaiev Baby House 3 trips to Kiev. Vadim and Kostya went to Ophthalmology hospital while Ivan was taken to the, by now well-known, Kiev Cardio Center (KCC).
[singlepic=624,200,200,,center]Kostya (Kremenchuk Baby House) and Vadim (Nikolaiev Baby House) Bathroom renovation in Nikolaiev Baby House, finished!
Update as of October 25th 2010
One single group still needs bathroom and group kitchen renovation. Hopefully we’ll be able to make it happen in 2011 to finally terminate this long haul project.
You may, at your leisure, browse through NBH bathrooms project pictures here.Update as of March 1st 2010
We are down to 3 bathrooms that need to be repaired.
We have ordered one bathroom to be renovated and work on this job has started today. 2 more need to be done and we are looking for sponsors to finish this project.
Cost is US$ 6,000.- (€ 4’000.- or CHF 6’000.-) for each remaining bathroom.Please help finish this project 😉
Thank you very much for your kind support!
Efficiency enhancement in heating system at NBH
Update as of February 23rd, 2010
Mission accomplished 🙂In spite of difficulties we managed to finish partial renovation of the heating system before beginning of winter. And, as you perhaps read it in the press, this winter was particularly hard and snowy in Ukraine.
Director Olga Ivanovna is extremely grateful to our sponsors for having made it possible to the orphans to live during winter time in a heated home!Update as of October 15th
We managed to secure financing for the whole project. A big thanks goes to our generous donors! But this time there is a delay on the construction side of this project. Also the new heating is already in operation, not everything is finished and we are holding back payment until every last bit is finished to our satisfaction.
one of the new heating elementsLAdS Newsletter 2009
We regularly inform our members on the way in which their donations are used by semi-annually publishing a short “Newsletter”. Or, to be more precise, after each trip to Ukraine.
The Newsletter July 2009 is online!
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