1. Completion of construction to make ground floor accommodation adapted for wheelchair and disabled access, rooms, floors, bathrooms and toilets and corridors
Cost: €7,250

2. Sewing Workshop to make and repair clothes, produce handicrafts. Sewing machine purchase and materials.
Cost: € 600

3. Craft Workshop
Candle-making, stained glass, mosaic making, etching in wood, ceramics
Craft output will be packed and boxed and sold in Ireland at Christmas time and funds generated will be invested back in Vasilevka.
Cost: €2,000 - €3,000

4. Individual Development Programme for young people.
This programme is based on Cheshire Ireland’s programme for “independent living”. Each young person in Vasilevka and Dom House, Rechitsa will be offered participation in this programme. It is based on asking each individual to choose a skill, educational programme or training programme which they would like to undertake and for which we can find suitable providers. A budget for funding their entire programme will then be allocated and set aside i.e. the entire cost will be “ring-fenced” and therefore completion of the programme will not be threatened by shortage of funds in future years.
Cost: € 10,000 to be allocated from June 2007. Inna Basaranovich and Valentina Drazdova to provide figures and individual plans by June 30th 2007).

5. Mini-bus for transport of young people with physical disabilities.
A special bus with a wheelchair lift is required for Vasilevka. This bus will be used to transport young people to training, education and work in Gomel and can also be used for day excursions and maybe evening social trips to Gomel, Rechitsa and centres close to Vasilevka. It is a vital resource to help de-institutionalise all who live in Vasilevka.
€ 6,000 – 8,000 for second hand bus.
€1,800 driver salary
€ 1,200 fuel, parts
Ian O’Brien will project manage the bus purchase and delivery.

6. Outfit new kitchen
A kitchen is required that is adapted to people with physical disabilities. This is needed to meet the needs of the influx of young people coming to Vasilevka. The kitchen will also be a training resource as part of the programme for independent living. All young people will learn to cook for themselves.

(Mike Corrigan to provide estimate by June 30th)

7. Lifts. A “two-floor” elevator (lift) is required that is wheelchair accessible. This will enable physically disabled people to access the second-floor canteen/restaurant area.
( Estimate by local contractors and installation costs by end August 2007)

8. Roofed “play and social area”. A large conservatory style building is required that can accommodate card tables, table tennis, board games etc for approximately 20 people.
Cost: ( Mike Corrigan to provide schematic and estimate by June 30th)

9. Extension of canteen into Valentina’s office: To make the canteen more accessible for wheelchairs. ( Mike Corrigan to provide schematic and estimate by June 30th)



10. Covered walkway between blocks. Getting from the accommodation block to the canteen block in winter (-20 degrees in snow) is very difficult for mobility impaired people. A covered walkway solves the problem.

Cost: ( Mike Corrigan to provide schematic and estimate by June 30th)



11. Steps and Wheelchair ramps to lake. To make the lake shore accessible to everyone we are looking at the possibility of ending Bike2Belarus 07, with a mini-construction job ( think port tunnel only on time and under budget). Yes, we would like to leave a permanent and useful memento of our time in Belarus by doing a bit of cement mixing, step making and ramp laying all under time pressure (just like those stupid Discovery Channel documentaries), only the time allowed for the job is really tight ‘cos we could miss the plane home!

Cost: €1,500

12. Glasshouse and Horticulture and Garden Project
Vasilevka has five hectares (not being boggers, we don’t know exactly what this means) however it is a lot of space. We are looking at the possibility of creating a sustainable business based on growing fruit, vegetables and flowers in glasshouses. This would be create work-based therapy for some of Vasilevka’s people with the added advantages of providing good quality food for the canteen, and selling surplus stock in the marketplace.
Cost: up to €40,000 to be provided over two years, phase 1 feasibility to be in place by August 2007

13. Computer Room
Installation of security system, metal grill, alarm for room.
DIT through the Digital Community Programme have set up its first overseas programme in Vasilevka. The computer facility is equipped with ten state of the art computers, software, digital cameras and support equipment.
Protection of this equipment is required.
Cost: €1,200

Inna Basaranovich and Andrei Nosau have completed software training programme in Dublin during the Easter break and will train a cohort of young people in Clay Animation over the coming weeks. Both Inna and Andrei will be facilitated in completing their Microsoft Office training programme by end of 2007, so that they become qualified trainers.

14. CORE Foundation
We have been asked to support the work of the CORE organisation with a financial contribution that will guarantee its continued success in integrating the efforts of all NGO’s involved in post-Chernobyl recovery with local communities most affected by the nuclear explosion.
€10,000

15. Hospice Programme 2007 – 2008
Support of the Hospice Programme is a continuation of our earliest involvement in southern Belarus. In addition to supplying salaries for nurses and palliative care we also fund a number of vehicles so that hospice care is available in remote villages.
€12,000 (July to July)

16. Education Fund
Education Fund is a Belarusian charitable organisation based in Gomel. We are its main funding source, supplying salaries (4 people), some assistance with expenses and administration costs. The organisation is led by Igor Trisno who many Irish people have met through Bike2belarus and Students10K over the past five years.

€20,000

17. Travel Costs, Printing, Subsistance expenses, accounts auditing Ireland/Belarus
Our costs are about 4% of total income which is the best cost ratio of any charity we know. We need to visit Belarus quite often each year and we have Belarusian people visit Ireland for training and planning meetings. All telephone, accommodation costs and internal travel costs have been borne out of our own pockets! And we have our accounts audited each year and in addition, we invite all bike2belarus participants to see for themselves how we spend the funds we raise.

€10,000