2010 June The Plan
We are going to have a ball, doing some great stuff. We bought a delapidated house in a place called Tereshkovichi and we will spend some time building a fence around it and generally making it fit for the builders to move in. The house will be made disabled accessible and soon will be a real home to young adults who presently live in institutions. We will provide education, training and lots of facilities to make independent living possible for these young adults.
We will also be setting up a day care centre for 316 disabled people who live in the region.
Finally, we need to spend a day or so (a separate small team of about five people) doing some work in another of our facilities in Rechitca.
2006 - 2009 Highlights
Funding of Dominic House Rechitca - a home where disabled young adults learn to live independently. It is a landmark project and is run in cooperation with the Belarusian Department of Social Protection and latterly with welcome support from the German humanitarian organisation Chance auf Leben.
Re-furbishment of sanitorium/orphanage in Vasilevka
Funding of Hospice Programme
Funding of "Education Fund"
Creating disability access in Vasilevka.
Training for Rehabilitation management and staff in Ireland with Cheshire Ireland
Setting up first overseas Digital Community in Vasilevka, Klinovka and Rechitsa funded by Dublin Institute of Technology..
Funding of CORE Foundation
Advanced planning for Hospice Programme covering entire southern region bordering the Radiation Zone. This project will be run with the cooperation of CORE which is made up of Belarusian representatives of all the regions affected by Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion, Ambassadors of EU Governments represented in Belarus, International Non-Governmental Agencies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Students 10K (as Ireland's only representative).
2005
Completion of Solarium in Novinki Children's Home 2005
Transport and medical support for Gomel Hospice Programme 2005
Bus for Day Care Centre for physically and mentally disabled children - Minsk 2005
CORE Project - Bragin- Sensory Garden and Kitchens, ecological and pedagogic circles for children. with Bragin Education Department and Patrimoine sans Frontieres, Paris. 2005
CORE Project - Chechersk - Rehabilitation of Living Conditions- 2005
2004
Ultra scan machine in Minsk Maternity Hospital 2004*
2000 - 2003
Two minibuses to Orphanages 2000 - 2003
One Radiation Monitoring Vehicle 2003
Two minibuses to Orphanages 2000 - 2003
One Radiation Monitoring Vehicle 2002 - 2003
Three Equipped Ambulances to hospitals in
Optical Equipment for Radoshkovichy sanatorium 2002 - 2003.
* A carry-over of funds raised in 2004 were used to fund an the extensive range of projects carried out in 2005. Many projects have a very long lead time between agreeing the project with our various project contacts in
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