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Masha needed heart surgery
Masha came to the NBH right after her birth and immediately became everybody’s favorite. No wonder! She is a real angel. Unfortunately the girl had inborn heart disease and urgently needed serious treatment.
In the beginning of October we organized her trip to Kiev; after having passed all necessary tests and consultations Masha was left at the hospital (KCC, Kiev Cardio Center). more
Hygiene Products for NBH Personal
NBH always requires large amounts of hygiene products!
For over two years, a friend from Germany is sending these products to Nikolaiev on a monthly bases.
The set includes: single use medical gloves of different sizes, face masks, hand and surface disinfection, single use plastic aprons and single use bed diapers. more
Vadim’s story
Vadim was refused by his mother right after birth because of his disease: cleft palate and cleft upper lip.
Thus he was taken to NBH and and Les Amis de Svieta decided to help him and organize needed operations.
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.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!
Or just click on the “PayPal Donate” logo in the right column. more
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
Vika visiting Switzerland
Vika came to LAdS headquarter in Switzerland for a week. We briefed her on all the planned activities for 2013 and as a treat we sent her to the Swiss mountains for 2 days.
For Ukrainian Vika it was survival training, for her Swiss tourist guide it was pure pleasure.
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.
