Recent Posts
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.
Let’s help the HIV positive orphans in Zeleniy Gay!!!
At the end of 2003, Kharkov local Health Department decided to group in one single location all HIV positive orphans which were dispersed in different clinics all across the district. They choose the site of “Zeleniy
Gay” specialized orphanage (25 km away from Kharkov city) where an old house (separated from the other buildings) was available.
First action in Kharkov
Pictures below illustrate the results of a support action launched in March 2003 by Sylvie Truchot with help from “Les Amis de Svieta”. This first action was aimed at providing orphanage children with most urgently required goods.
The Association in France
How was association’s French branch born?
In May 2002, Sylvie and husband Michel adopted her son Alexandre from Zeleniy Gay (Kharkov region). At that time, she realized how old and poorly equiped orphanage buildings were. Mostly because of the lack of financial means to keep them in better shape.
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.
Svieta becomes Anna Grace…
During his visit of Nikolaiev orphanage in December 2001, Pascal left a letter for Svieta’s parents to the manager Olga Ivanovna (together with Vika on this picture).
We begged her to organize its forwarding because we did not have the address.
The Marrow of Family
A single father discovers how far the heart can stretch when he adopts his second son.
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