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LAdS Newsletter 2010
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 July 2010 is online! more
Urgent 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 moreA baby is born
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Today July 13th around 9 o’clock in the morngin in the city of Lyubotyn, Natasha gave birth to Rosa, 2.9 kg and 53 centimeters. Mother and daughter are doing well, although suffering from heatwave in Eastern Ukraine. Rosa is Cancer and is born on the year of the Tiger (chinese zodiacal sign).
We wish her and her parents all the best and are very proud to be her godparents. Only to a little extent of course 😉Les Amis de Svieta is celebrating its 10th anniversary (sold out)
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[singlepic=849,250,200,,center] Come share with us the traditional, Jura style St. Martin meal – all home made
Sunday, November 21th 2010, at 11:00 am at the gymnastics hall in Saint-Brais (canton Jura, Switzerland).
Limited seating available, reservation required by . First-in, first-served 😉 more
Natasha’s family
On May 21st Pascal and Vika visited the sponsorship program at Zeleniy Gay boarding school for teenagers and were introduced to Natasha (Nataliya Yulievna), a 17 year old student, learning floristic skills. As it happens in life, Natasha is pregnant from Liocha (Alexey Evgenievych) and will give birth to a baby girl soon.
[singlepic=711,250,200,,center]Natasha and Liocha moreThe dolls Godmother
For more than 5 years now, Pascal has received each year a parcel with a nice card and a custom made doll with many different garments made by the dolls Godmother: Verena.
Natalia with HER dollVika & Vera will travel to Evpatoriya (Crimea)
During spring 2010 trip, NBH director, Olga Ivanovna, introduced us to two new girls recently arrived at the orphanage. Both do suffer from severe orthopedic issue with legs, preventing them to walk alone and even to stand up alone for Vika.
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[singlepic=703,250,200,,center]Vera moreVisit to Olga Igorivna in 2010
On Mai 25th Hanneke, Vika, Pascal and Tom visited Olga at her school in Kakhovka – by car almost two hours away from Nikolaiev. Olga was expecting us and showed us her room. She had her monthly accounts including receipts ready for us.
Trip 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
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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. moreSponsoring at Zeleniy Gay boarding school
We have started to participate in a sponsorship program at Zeleniy Gay boarding school for teenagers that need a professional education, after they leave state sponsored boarding school.
