Ukraine Children's Project

Updates from the Field
April 2006

Eye Glasses for Orphans
Much needed prescriptions glasses have been filled and delivered from the October ‘Eye’ mission team. Quality of life of about 100 children dramatically improved.

Reading Glasses
Over 1,600 reading glasses were distributed among staff of the orphanages, their family members and elderly people in community and nursing home.

Some of the children who received new eye glasses

Eye Surgeries
We are blessed to be able to provide surgery in Ukraine for Sasha Gacumeg, Roman Kulinko, Ivan Kylbachny, Valentin Buchkovsky, Zhenya Bateschev, and Oleg Samborsky, whom all have had the first stage of surgery for crossed-eyes and will have the second one soon. Please keep them in your prayers.

Medical Projects
Ukraine Children’s Project has been able to help Sergey Chebotarev a nine year old boy who is going blind and needs medical treatment. Natalia Ivonich a fifteen year old girl who is receiving medicine needed to treat congenital heart disease.
Vitamins and personal care supplies were bought for Nimiriv orphanage.

Cardiac Surgeries
Yura Nedaiborsch, eleven year old boy from Sitkovtsy has finally had his much needed heart surgery at Amosov Institute. Yura has waited a long time to receive surgery because they felt he was too weak to survive the surgery. He is now doing well and back in school and a much happier child.
Emanuel Scherba, four year old boy from a poor family received life saving heart surgery at Amosov Institute in Kiev. (Pictured here with his mother)
Sergey Krasnyansky and Yuri Kostyk are both undergoing treatment and surgery for heart birth defects now at the same clinic.

Other Surgeries
Nine children received surgeries for abdominal hernia from Serebria and Kryschintsy Orphanages.

Puppet Ministry
Our Ukrainian puppet ministry team has been to six orphanages since the American team left. Alina, our ministry coordinator gives her account from one trip to an orphanage:” It was a real blessing for every place! All the kids as well as the directors and the teachers were delighted by the show and the gifts we brought to every place. Many believers come to the orphanages with the Bible lessons, but it was for the first time the children could hear and SEE the Christmas story told by the puppets. We had a feeling the kids even forgot to breathe: they were carried away by the story.”

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