Ukraine
Restore a Child built four schools in 2018-2020 in Ukraine: Kharkiv, Bucha, Luviv and Carpathia.
Now three schools are used as shelters for 700 refugees.
We must protect all children in Ukraine, Now! They need to live in peace.
Dear Friends.
“The conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. Humanitarian needs are multiplying by the hour as fighting intensifies. Children have been killed. Children have been wounded. And half million children have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, with the number of refugees continuing to grow.” (UNICEF)
I have personally witnessed the impact of the 2014 Crimean War and the hardships this conflict had on lives of little children orphaned by the war in the East of Ukraine, particularly Kharkiv that recently was heavily bombed.
Little children have suffered more than some in their life time. Now, the suffering and brutal damage extends all over the country and causing havoc in the lives of 7.5 millions of children. This war and the previous wars have inflicted lasting mental and emotional damage to the children. Children have lost 2-3 years of schooling.
Many of you have been asking how you can help children through Restore a Child in Ukraine. We have opened three of our four schools to shelter hundreds of refugees. We need your generous hearts to help us continue the humanitarian aid of secure sheltering, feeding, hygiene kits and providing babies with diapers and baby food. As things settle down, we will need to reintegrate teaching children and will need school supplies.
The good news is that our partner, Dr. Laszlo Szabo, professor at Friedensau Adventist University in Germany, is willing to purchase a truck load of needed supplies for the refugees and take it to the borders of Hungary this week. Let us fill the truck immediately so that refugees waiting in the cold without food on the borders can receive some help.
I conclude with more good news... your current donations to Ukraine will be doubled, thanks to a generous matching grant.
Norma Nashed
Founder
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Watch the video below for an update on our efforts in Ukraine.
First Bus from Friedensau in Germany to travel to pick up refugees from Ukraine
Dr. Laszlo Sabo from Friedensau coordinated the effort of buying the five tons of food today with baby food and diapers and blankets and more. 12 volunteers helped in loading the bus. The bus is owned by a German Adventist which goes daily to pick up refugees from the town of Tschernivtsi on the boarder of Ukraine and bring them to Germany. No transportation fees for the food were paid.
Restore a Child is honored to have such dedicated volunteers. As more funds come in we will be loading this bus two to three times a week to provide
for the poor refugees in Ukraine.
2011 - Present
Restore a Child started work in the Ukraine in 2011 and for many years we mainly helped children with their educational expenses and food and medical needs for refugee children in their own country, the result of the Crimean War with Russia. Then in 2015 Dr. E.G. Moses recommended that we renovate a basement in a church in Kharkiv for a vibrant school. Norma Nashed visited all these four schools in 2018 with Dr. E.G. Moses. Parents testimonials are superb about the quality education their children receive.
Kharkiv or in Russian Kharkov is located in the North Eastern Ukraine 35 km from the Russian border. Many refugees fled from the East border with Russia and were refugees in their own country. Presently, Kharkiv is a major cultural, scientific, educational, transport and industrial centre of Ukraine. In 2016 and 2017 we completed building nine classrooms in the basement of the Adventist church. Norma Nashed met many old people from Kharkov who refuse to speak Ukrainian. They still speak Russian and feel they belong to Russia.
Luviv (Lviv) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country. Lviv is a city in western Ukraine, around 70 kilometers from the border with Poland. Traces of its Polish and Austro-Hungarian heritage are evident in its architecture, which blends Central and Eastern European styles with those of Italy and Germany. In High Castle Park, the mountaintop ruins of a 14th-century castle provide panoramic views of the city’s green-domed churches and the surrounding hills. The school is in high demand and the school had a building next to it. Restore a Child helped them purchase the building and expand the school
Bucha
Bucha is a city in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast. Administratively, Oblast is an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province. See more. it is incorporated as a city of oblast significance. Its population is approximately 36,971. Our purpose was to built a quality Early Childhood Center which we accomplished in 2018-2020. The building is two stories and one level is used on for Spiritual services. Children receive education plus spiritual guidance and learn healthy nutrition.
Tyachiv
Rauion is a second level of subdivision in the beautiful Carpathia Mountains. Together with Estephan, a local businessman, we built a three-floor boarding school to attract young people from all the Ukraine. We helped with establishing a modern Early Childhood Center. By far it is the most modern high quality rounded education we have around the world. Their kitchen provides the most healthy meals to students. Students excel in Science, Arts, Sports and Music.
All the four above schools were built with a grant from Dr. W. Busse and the Bainum Foundation in Washington D.C.
