Current Projects

Poltava Vocational Education Project 2013
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The orphanage was built in 1898. It was once a vacation home for an Earl, was occupied by the Germans during WWII and has been an orphanage since 1970. They are still uncovering mass graves to this day.

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Svalyava Baby Orphanage
Kitchen Renovation

Funded and COMPLETE

The kitchen at the Svalyava Baby Orphanage is in need of renovation after many years of use providing for the children at the home. Any kitchen renovation project is an expensive undertaking, and therefore we are approaching this project step by step under the guidance of the orphanage director. The overall project is currently divided into 1) floor repair 2) electrical and ventilation systems repair and 3) window repair.

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Surgery for Kostya
Funded and COMPLETE

Help Kostya see. Kostya is a blind 2 year old boy at Kremenchuk Baby House. Elizabeth met him on her trip in 9/2009. He needs sight-saving surgery to remove cataracts from both of his eyes. He will need transport, along with a nurse, to Kiev to receive this surgery. Estimated cost for transport, nurse, lodging, etc is $650.
GFI In-House Vocational Training
Funded and COMPLETE

From haircuts to hammers, the staff at GFI is constantly trying to prepare students graduating with skills for the future.

The staff at GFI finished creating a hair styling station/room last fall. It is all brand new and sparkles with mirrors, tile, etc. The barber chair is ready for business! Now, they must find funding for scissors, clippers, a teacher etc. to begin teaching those interested in hair styling. The kids can use this skill when they graduate and to help the other students look good.

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Playground Pavilions for Baby Orphanages
Goal: $1,600

The baby orphanages use playground pavilions such as the one in the picture to take the younger children outdoors for fresh air and sunshine. Caregivers can spend one-on-one time with individual children, confident that the remainder of the group does not wander away and are safe. It is also a good place for the children to play when it is too hot for the children to play in direct sunlight.

The existing pavilions are made of wood, very old, and too dangerous for the children to enter any more.

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Green Forest Internat Vocational Education
Class of 2008

Fully Sponsored!

We are introducing to you 12 teens from Green Forest Internat, a boarding school/orphanage with 160-170 children ages 7 through 17, located few miles outside Kharkiv. The teens here graduate and age out of the Internat at the end of May with only a 9th grade education. It really isn’t that, when compared to the 9th grade levels that you’re familiar with.

These “kids” must learn to support themselves and survive. If they leave the institution without any help, the chances are frighteningly high that they will succumb to hunger, desperation, criminal activity, drugs, unemployment, homelessness, violence, trafficking and prostitution, suicide or early death.

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Green Forest Internat Vocational Education
Class of 2009

Fully Sponsored!
CHEERS for all our supporting friends and dedicated sponsors!

We know it is a very hard time for everyone, and be assured that present economic conditions in Ukraine are WAY harder. For a Ukrainian orphan, graduating and aging out of an internat (orphanage/boarding school) with a very weak 9th grade education, prospects range are dismal and may result in early death. Their only chance is to go to vocational educational training for 2 years and learn a skill. After the very successful pilot project of sponsorship of 2008 grads, we now have 10 new hopeful grads who trust us to help them.

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Completed Projects

Kremenchuk Medical Equipment
Funded and COMPLETE

$1,500 was raised to purchase equipment necessary in the physiotherapy room of the Kremenchuk Baby Orphanage. Purchases included: an Inhalation Therapy Apparatus, Oxygen Foam Apparatus, a Disinfecting Lamp & Muscle Stimulating Device as well as extra supplies for all of the equipment.

We should be receiving pictures of the new equipment in use. Shown are photos from the shopping on Sept 21, 2009 in Ukraine. Svetana, in the pants suit, is the person in charge of therapy at the orphanage.

Elizabeth and Stacey hand-carried the funds for this project to Ukraine.

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Sports Equipment for Green Forest Internat
Funded and COMPLETE

The Green Forest Internat, in Kharkiv, receives very little external help. It is now home to about 160 children, aged between 7 & 16. Some of the kids have families that cannot look after them but visit them occasionally. Most of them are orphans or their parents have lost custody. Even though they are allowed to have some things of their own, most only have what is given to them at the orphanage. Clothes, shoes and toys are shared and passed on.

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Nadvirna Baby House Library and Quilts
Funded and COMPLETE

The children of Nadvirna Baby House will now be able to have a library at their home. This initiative was possible thanks to everyone in Parkland, Manitoba, Canada. The volunteer group has purchased & sent over 50 Ukrainian children’s books to the orphanage. The books range from learning the Ukrainian Alphabet, basic math, Atlases to Nursery Rhyme books. Books allow children to dream and explore. The first five years of a child’s life are extremely important and literacy is necessary. What a way to show our Ukrainian babies how much we love them!

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Nadvirna Baby House Carpeting
Funded and COMPLETE

Nadvirna Baby House is an orphanage that seems somewhat forgotten in a small village near the Carpathian Mountains. Day to day life is hard at this orphanage and it has just become unlivable because of the recent, widespread flooding in Western Ukraine.
New carpeting has been installed from funds raised by a group in the Parkland region of Manitoba, Canada.

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Christmas for Green Forest Internat
Funded and COMPLETE

Thanks to your generosity in Europe and North America, the children and teens of Green Forest Internat had a very happy Christmas/New Year holiday season. Our donors included college and primary school students, teachers, families, churches, etc. There was an abundance of gifts and dozens of hand made Christmas cards from the kids in an international school in Madrid, Spain for all our children, who received them on New Years' Eve!

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Nova Borova Commercial Dryer
Funded and COMPLETE

Think about how many times a week you toss your clean clothes from the washer to the dryer to make sure you and your family are outfitted for school, work, sports … life.

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Kremenchuk Flu Vaccination Project
Funded and COMPLETE

A generous donor provided the funding to supply all of the children in the Kremenchuk Baby Orphanage with flu shots - $2,000.

Elizabeth & Stacey hand carried the funds for this project to Ukraine.

The director and staff are extremely grateful for this additional level of protection from illness for the children.

Shoes Project
Over $3,000.00 Raised
Funded and COMPLETE

There is a common need in virtually every orphanage: shoes for the children. OBS purchases as much in-country as possible, but shoes are the exception for several reasons. Buckner Shoes for Orphans Souls is an amazing organization that provides brand new shoes for needy children. An Orphan's Bright Star's application requesting one pair of shoes for every child in our orphanages, and even for some orphanages outside of our official scope, is being worked right now. Shoes can be costly in Ukraine, so shipping free shoes over to the homes makes very good sense in this situation.

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Svalyava Infant Quarantine Room
Funded and COMPLETE

The administration of regional baby house writes you this letter with the request for help to finish the repair of isolation department, which was started back in 2008. Today we have an urgent need to organize a special group for the smallest children of the orphanage. The group should be big enough to host 6 children 0-6 months old. We are planning to use isolation department to place these children.

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Playgrounds for Development Project
Funded and COMPLETE

An Orphan's Bright Star is finalizing the details for the specific playground sets to be purchased, and the orphanages to be the recipients.
We look forward to making it able for the little ones to work on their gross motor skills, social development, and so many other growth areas with this new equipment. Check back for more details!

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Stroller Project
Funded and COMPLETE $2,000

A group of our supporters took on a project to raise funds for 4 quad strollers, a 6-passenger Bye Bye Buggy & a 4-passenger Bye Bye Buggy for Kremenchuk & Svalyava!

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Irina & Vitaly Medical Assessment
Funded and COMPLETE $800

An Orphan's Bright Star was approached by Pascal and LAdS (Friends of Svieta, svieta.org) to help with securing treatment for 2 children from Nikolaiev Baby House. Both children required assessments in Kiev at the Kiev Maxilo-facial surgery institute to confirm and complete their diagnosis. Both children have cleft issues and one has hip bone and blood problems as well. The orphanage must pay for travel to the treatment location.

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Wheelchairs for Poltava Children
Funded and COMPLETE $2,700

Hope Haven is generously supplying 13 brand new custom child-sized wheelchairs for the rehabilitation home in Poltava. According to the caregivers, this is the greatest need in the home as it enables them to move the children around to their various therapy sessions without enduring heavy lifting and moving. The chairs will arrive with the necessary equipment to accommodate the growth of the children over the years as they age.

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Nizhny Vorota Library
Funded and COMPLETE $500

Nizhny Vorota Internat is home to special needs children between the ages of 6 and 17. These forgotten children did not have books, or other education material. The map on their wall was so old it did not even display their own country! The kids were made to watch one television set ... day in ... day out.

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2007 Windows
Funded and COMPLETE $20,000+

In the sick room of the Svalyava Baby Orphanage, the windows and doors were rotten and broken. Throughout the rest of the orphanage, windows were "insulated" by shoving cotton into the gaping holes surrounding the frame, many had broken glass and were encased in rotten wood.

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Kremenchuk Laundry
Funded and COMPLETE $8,400

An Orphan's Bright Star and LAdS (Les Amies de Svieta) partnered to provide the orphanage with a renovated laundry area, complete with a new ventilation and electrical system. The way in which this project was completed is a perfect example of how working together we can make a huge difference in these children's lives! Without LAdS partnership, this project would never have been happened!

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Potoki Shoe Project
Funded and COMPLETE

Potoki is a small orphan in a rural village in Poltava. The 32 children there are in dire need of almost everything. They have asked OBS to help get them shoes/boots for all the children. We have requested shoes from the Buckner Foundation but this could take several months so we need to send shoes NOW. We have allocated $15 per child including shipping.

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2008 Window Project
Funded and COMPLETE

EcoClub, Alternative-V and An Orphan's Bright Star will be repairing windows in two special needs homes in the Zhitomir region - Teterevka & Nova Borova Internat.

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Books for Green Forest Internat Library
Funded and COMPLETE
Summer is the time most of us will be reading for enjoyment in some of our free hours. With very little effort you and I can borrow a book or buy one, or lend a favorite story to a friend.


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