Dear Friends and Colleagues, 

I am close to celebrating 40 years of an incredibly lucky life. As a child, I went to a summer camp every year, parents treated us to river trips and culture outings, we spent amazing time with our grandparents and extended family in Poltava and other regions of Ukraine.

Please help me buy at least two weeks of vacation to several children who don’t have parents or grandparents, who live next door to military action in poverty and fear that fighting will spread to their orphanage.

For 100 pounds, we can send one orphan on 2-week holiday. Help me give that slice of normal childhood to at least 10 vulnerable children.

Let us send children from Mariupol Orphanage-Centre 'Republic Pilgrim' for two weeks to sanatorium Barvinok which specialise in eyes treatments and vision correction, as well as provides an overall summer holiday environment, in the Ternopil region, Western Ukraine.

It would be great if we collected enough moneyto buy summer holiday for 10 children, from 15 to 27 of August.

The Centre “Republic Pilgrim”  was founded 17 years ago. It looks
after orphaned children, street children  and children who suffer from drug or alcohol dependence.

While in Sanatorium Barvinok, those children will be offered eye tests and, if necessary, vision correction; they will have day trips to places
like  Pochaivska Lavra, Ternopil, Kremenetsky Gory, The Spring of St. Ann, Zarvanutzia and Lviv. According to the programme, they will also
have  daily fun English lessons from Bond English School in London, drama workshops, music and art lessons, sports activities relevant to their age groups. 

Your generous support will be the best Big Birthday present I can hope for.

Love, Svitlana

Websites:

http://www.republicpilgrim.org/en/index.html

http://sanbarvinok.ub.ua/