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Renovation of the dentist’s office at the ‘school internat’ N°5 in Nikolaiev
At the time of our first visit to the ‘school internat’ (boarding school) N°5 in Nikolaiev in January 2003, the director asked us for assistance to renovate the dentist’s office of his school that serves more than 350 children and teenagers.
Transportation to Ukraine
It’s at the end of 2002, during a chat with Raymond Guggenheim form LifeLine (another Swiss association providing Sumatran help to Ukraine), that the idea of transporting 2nd hand stuff to Ukraine arose.
The Association in Switzerland
Why and how was the association born ?
We, Pascal and Martine, decided to found the non-profit “Les Amis de Svieta” association in December 2000, after our second adoption experience during summer 2000.
We had choosen Ukraine because Russian adoption conditions, where we first adopted back in 1998, had badly degraded. During our visits to our daughter Irina’s orphanage, we have had the opportunity to meet the other children of her group many times. We have been impressed by another young girl named Svieta, who suffered from a severe face malformation.
