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Letter to our Health Coordinator
From: "Olha Burova"
To: "sylvia flowers"
Subject: Re: Rosh-h-shana
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:20:03 +0300
Dear Sylvia,
Yesterday our President Valentyna Hladilova received a message from Marita Draheim, the President of the Club of Peine. She informed that Dorothea Leupold, the former SI/E Health Coorditator gave her 100 USD for our project which she got f rom your club at Sydney Convention.
Thank you very much! We shall write to you who of the children will be treated for it.
Our things are going more or less fine. German Soroptimists visited us in May. They brought money raised for our project in the whole Germany, then our Godmother clubs from Switzerland also sent some money. We were given a grant from the A ction Fund but could not receive the money because we did not have a bank account. Our Swiss Godmother Katharina Streuli-Gerber managed to open a bank account for us in Switzerland. So we shall not have these problems of tranferring the money.
Here is the address she gave us:
Versemet pour (Einzahlung fur)
St. Galler Kantonalbank
9001 St. Gallen
En faveur de (Zugunsten von):
PIB Rapperswil
2650641 .926-00
Soroptimist International Club Lviv
K. Streuli-Gerber
8730 Uznach
The treatment of teeth of 23 girls have been already successfully completed. We had to do some changes in the project as some children have more spoilt teeth and some less, some need more complicated treatment and some not. Our club member Professor Nina Smolyar decides what to do and for whom herself. And there also arose one problem: our project was intended for the girls only, but boys also want to have their teeth restored. So Nina Smolyar helped two most requiring dental service litt le boys. We think it is fair.
Some of the money brought by German Soroptimist was spent on the stationary goods, bed linen and shoes for the children in Boarding School for the Children with Mental Health Problems in the Town of Lyubin Velykyy. They suffer from specifi c diseases (like enuresis, for example) and they need a lot of bed linen, detergents and means of personal hygiene. They live under very difficult conditions and have to keep their own cattle to have some dairy products, a large kitchen garden where they grow vegetables, their food is not proper and nutricious, so this a small help we could do for them.
We still go on supporting the orphanage for the little children aged 1 month-3 years having CNS diseases. Now we are equipping a "music hall" (a special large room where they learn to sing, dance, where they have parties, and where they watch performances of the puppet theatre) for them.
I hope you are doing well too, if it is possible to say about your most suffering country. I have always wondered " why?" Two thousand years of oppression and persecution is more than enough. And "What can be done?" If only we could change people's minds. I think we have to try to in spite of all difficulties.
Give our best wishes to all the club members,
We shall be in contact.
Love,
Olha
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