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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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