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Trip 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) New Web Solution – New Features
Today we have successfully migrated svieta.org to a new webservice with new features (e.g. picture albums) and lower cost. Enjoy!
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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!
For your agenda!!!!
Please reserve Sunday, November 21st, 2010.
We at Les Amis de Svieta celebrates this year our 10th anniversary! We will let you know more details later.
For now, please mark this day in red in your agenda. We will organise a great party for you, that we can already promise.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 elementsResults of web site survey
We have a total of 17 participants to this survey, of which 3 English speaking participants have finished all questions (138 visitors have started but not finished the questionnaire – was it too long or too difficult 😮 ).
English svieta.org
All English speaking participants have adopted children, have been visiting the site for more than 1 year, 2 out of 3 have donated to Svieta and 2 out of 3 rate the web site as excellent and 2 rates the site as good.
French svieta.org
All 6 French speaking participants have children, 5 have adopted children and all 6 have been visiting the site for more than 1 year, 3 out of 6 have donated to Svieta and we have 2 excellent and 3 good ratings for the site.
German svieta.org
8 German speaking participants have completed the survey, 6 have children and only one German speaking family has adopted a child. All 8 have been visiting the site for a year or longer and they rate the site as good or excellent. 7 out of 8 German speaking survey participants have donated in the past.
Thank you for participating in the 2009 Les Amis de Svieta Survey!
We learned a lot about our visitors and sponsors and thus we will be able to provide the right information that you need to make your decisions, when donating money to Les Amis the Svieta.2009 web site survey
Update as of November 27th
The survey has shown some interesting results and thus we have decided to let the survey open for a little while longer. At the end we will post a summary of the interesting facts we learned from that survey.
2009 Les Amis de Svieta survey
If you haven’t participated yet, please do so soon. It is absolutely anonymous.
Article dated November 18th
Please participate in the 2009 Les Amis de Svieta survey. It will take less than 5 minutes to fill in those 14 questions. Your answers will help us to improve articles on this site and to better help the children in Ukrainian orphanages.
This survey will be active approx. one week.
Thank you very much!
🙂Emergency roof repair in Makiivka
Since we realized together with LAdS France the outdoor playgrounds at Makiivka orphanage, their management now knows they could count on us in case they experience urgent problems. That’s exactly what they did last week, when they realized that water was leaking through the laundry building’s roof.
Playground in Makiivka
It was 5 years ago when we visited for the first time AIDS/HIV orphanage in Makiivka, in the name of APAEU (Association des Parents Adoptants d’Enfants Ukrainiens) and in the name of LAdS France. Back then we discussed with the management the possibility to set up and pay for an outdoor playground. Mid August of 2009 we contacted the management again and we started this project. Mid October we were able to open not just one, but two playgrounds for the Makiivka children.
Delivery and installation of equipmentFlu vaccine for NBH
Winter season is not far away. Chief doctor Olga of Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) asked for help financing flu vaccine again this year (we are talking about seasonal flu vaccine, not ‘swine flu’ vaccine!).
Thanks to a generous donation from LAdS USA, the flu vaccines needed for 2009 could be purchased and have been delivered.
delivery of anti flu vaccineInjections have been given already and Chief doctor Olga and the kids from Nikolaiev Baby House (NBH) are very grateful.
