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Board meeting
On January 7, the Friends of Svieta Board of Directors met with our colleagues from Svieta USA via Zoom meeting.
We wish you a peaceful new year!!!!
We heartily thank our donators and friends for their continuous support in 2023 and hope it will continue in 2024!
2023 was a difficult year for Ukraine, for the orphans and for the Friends of Svieta. Thank you for continuing to support the orphans in war-torn Ukraine.
Take it easy and relax during holidays in order to start 2024 full of spirit and energy.Report by Nataliya Grigorenko
This Report was written by the Director of NBH, Nataliya Grigorenko:
I heartily thank you for all your help during the last 23 years supporting „Nikolaiev´s Baby House“ (NBH).
Thanks to the financial support in 2023 two children were sent to Kiev for consultation and treatment.
Maxim, was in Kiev´s children´s hospital „OXMADIT“ from 06.03.2023 till 22.03.2023.
Ivanka, from 11.09.23 till 19.09.23 was at Kiev´s children´s cardio center for examination. On 9.10.23 the girl was operated on (the first step of operational treatment to improve her complicated heart disease). Unfortunately the girl could not recover, on the 27.10.23 the heart stopped, doctors could not help any more and the child died.
Due to our donation expensive medicines for Yuriy were bought. more
Ivanka passed away suddenly
October 29th, 2023
With great sadness we have to inform today that Ivanka passed away last night after initial recovery after surgery. The doctors were unable to do anything.
Ivanka, the first new orphan since the beginning of the war, in Kiev
October 12th, 2023
Finally we have news. Ivanka was operated yesterday. She survived the operation. The best heart surgeon in the all of Ukraine operated on her personally (chief physician of the whole heart surgery clinic in Kiev). The doctors did everything possible. Now the girl has to fight for life. She is in the intensive care unit and cannot be visited, therefore no photos yet.
Maxim was treated in Kiev
August 17, 2023
After treatment and rehabilitation in Kiev Maxim is doing better. He was never sick in the summer and now the doctors hope that it will continue like this, even in the winter. We may have to buy something additional in the fall to strengthen Maxim’s immune system.News from Ukraine
NBH, Nikolaiev Baby House
NBH was evacuated to Chernovtsy in 2022, as was reportet.
The hope was great that the children of Chernovtsy would soon be allowed to return to Nikolaiev.Report, first year of war in Ukraine
Vika, Ukrainian member of the board, presented this report at the general assembly meeting on March 31, 2023:
24.02.2022 has divided the life of every Ukrainian on before and after. We will never forget those terrible nights, full of worries, fears and the feeling that everything that happened was not true after all. In an instant, the lives of millions were changed and destroyed. Thousands were killed or injured, tens of thousands lost everything, hundreds of thousands had to flee. Every story told at that time was a tragedy.
Minutes of the General Assembly
The general assembly took place on 31.3.2023 at the Restaurant Fritz & Frieda in Thun (BE/Switzerland).
The annual report can be read here (German) or here (French).
Viktoriya has cerebral palsy and needs therapy
Viktoriya was born in 2016. Here mother was very young at the time. At the age of almost 3 Viktoriya came to NBH for a 6 months treatment. After that time, her mother refused to take Viktoriya back. The court which very quickly deprived Viktoriya‘s mother her parental right, so the girl has got her status of the orphan.
