Help Children from Ukrainian East

Dear donors, 

this spring began truely fantastic. A lot of work has been done. The team of charitable organization Sagacitas-Ukraine want to present to your attention what has been done in March and April, 2016. We decided to make special "May" report a little bit later:

Sorry for the delay responding, I've been very busy with work. Here goes: I have been very interested in Ukraine since a short visit to Kyiv four years ago. Since then I have been back many times visiting different areas and have been amazed by the beauty of Ukraine, and the great people I have met on my travels. Since then I been following the developments around the Russian aggression in Donbass and have been shocked by my governments unwillingness to support Ukraine. I can't imagine what life must be like for the kids in the ATO zone, so was glad to be able to help a little bit through the Children_Ato charity. It is a very worthwhile cause.

Rob (donator)

So, information about March and April follows.

March has been quite informative and interesting. Details follow…

Earlier this month a surprise has arrived from Germany to family Klypa, participants of the project  Children_ATO. Partners of the project public organization Chemnitz-Ukraine-Europa e.V. collected and sent to the family a parcel. Unfortunately, little Max could not get itat once, as was under the course of chemotherapy in Kiev. We hope that all received things will suit to litte Max and will be useful for him.

Auction "Fair of Kindness" continues its activities. 4 beautiful authentic Ukrainian dolls (motankas) have been sent to Canada, province Saskatchewan. Thanks Dr. Ursula for a great support - $200. Remind you, that it was not the first dolls, sent to Dr. Ursula. Two more were sent to Canada to support Nastia and little Bohdan. We hope that new authentic Ukrainian dolls (motankas) will be great addition to, perhaps, even future collection.

Under the project Children_ATO and ToyDrive for Ukrainian Kids, the family of the fallen ATO soldier got two parcels from abroad. Two volunteers agreed to help a certain family. Mother, Kseniia, and her son Bohdan are very grateful for the received care. The volunteers of this family were representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in the US,  Ksenia  and Svitlana. So, the family has received a lot of interesting things. Knowing that Bogdan has a problem with English, lady Svitlana gladly offered to organize the online course of learning English for the boy. Families of project Children_ATO not only get a lump-sum help, but can continue to communicate with their volunteers.

On March 5, 20 children of Children ATO project participated in an entertaining and informative workshop called A Little Soap-Boiler. In the entertainment complex called "Khalabuda" kids learned how to create a natural, useful, and what is most important - a beautiful soap. Small soap-boilers not only learned useful things and created small soap masterpieces for their mothers for March 8, but also managed to learn a few games, and communicate with each other. The heroine of a favorite cartoon "Frozen" helped them. Volunteers and organizers of the project plan to carry out educational and fun activities for the kids every week. This will not only help kids make friends but also expand the range of their interests.

Children were waiting for real "MasterChef" on March 6. Pizzeria “Celentano” invited the children of the project Children_ATO for a pizza workshop for the second time. Children were told all secrets of tasty pizza, they were taught to make dough and have shown how correctly and creatively to spread a filling. Then aspiring pizza makers were got into the kitchen and have told how to make dough.

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With a little delay, we would like to congratulate sincerely our brave mothers with a wonderful holiday of March 8th and to present them joyful emotions and cheery mood. Certificates to the water park Dream Island, Kyiv, for two (or even three) will help us in this cause. Charitable fund SAGACITAS-UKRAINE wants to express huge thanks to Ukrainian diaspora of Rochester, USA, and NGO ROC Maidan for an excellent opportunity to organize a small holiday for the families of the project Children_ATO.Personally, our team wants to thank Volodymyr and Natalya (and their families) for endless enthusiasm and support.

We received a wonderful package with clothes for children yesterday. Thank you very much Anna for support and enthusiasm. We hope that all things will get new owners soon.

Sasha, participant of / Children ATO, has celebrated her 11th birthday March 29th. Unfortunately, we had no opportunity to congratulate birthday-girl ourselves but...Thanks to fruitful cooperation with our coordinator Oksana the present has reached its destination in time. Girl is in fond of her present (DIY set). In our turn we want to say thank you to RocMaidan for such a nice present. More information about the family of fallen soldier: http://www.eng.children-ato.in.ua/140-biriukov.html

The big charitable event was held by charitable fund “Sagacitas-Ukraine” and German organization AG Ukraine-Chemnitz-Europa e.V. The talented children from our project “Children ATO” have actively created Easter bunnies. All members of families also sewed animal toys. Our youngest helper is 5 years old. The first batch is ready to be driven to Germany. In such way IDPs help 9-year old Oleg who is from Sumy. He has blood cancer. Now the boy has complication and he is in the “Ohmadit” hospital. The parents need money for his treatment. In Germany the Ukrainian diaspora has got to know about this child and offered a common event which is sewing bunnies for Easter fair. All bunnies will be sold in Germans during the celebrations of catholic Easter. All the proceeds will be spent on the boy’s treatment.

 What about April?

At the beginning of this month a small boy Maxim and his dad came to us. Of course, we didn’t lost chance to make him a pleasure and presented him with a soft dog. As his father has said, now the big dog will protect the house not only outside, but also inside. Also, thanks to Svetlana, Maxim has got a few new things that he carefully made (choose) and which he liked with the first sight. Maxim does not like to be photographed, so the photos had to be done very quickly.

The project Children_ATO made friends with the initiative of representatives of Ukrainian diaspora in the United Kingdom. Mrs. Iryna offered to collect a care packagefor 2 families, participants of the project. They were pleasantly surprised by all received stuff. Little Arina received many educational games, clothes and some food items.
"Good evening, Irina. I wrote to you an email on mailbox that you left on the children's book in the gifts ... thanks again. I've got your gifts, thank you very much for everything. Irina, we wish you a good health, happiness and joy. Thanks again for your attention, support and a good heart ", Anna and Arina. Also, Khrystyna received a package from Mrs. Irina. Unfortunately, the girl is unable to thank by herself, but she and her grandmother were impressed by the scale of the support and could not contain their joy and gratitude, communicating by the phone with one of the project coordinators. Grandmother Svitlana Anatoliivna once told that in Khrystyna`s wardrobe new favorite dress has already appeared. Also, there were other pleasant surprises, but it would remain a secret.

Thanks to Svetlana and Anna project coordinators could collect such a package for one of the families from the project Children_ATO. Also, Ukraine-Chemnitz-Europa project partners prepared surprises for children of the project for Easter. Maria is one of the first who received as a present for Holiday fantastic bag from project partners.

The middle of April surprised us with a wonderful weather. That is why children from the project Children_ATO were invited to ride on horses. Kids got positive energy on a long time. We remind you that hippotherapy is a very effective practice of sedation and psychological "unloading" for children. It is practiced by the project of helping children more than a year.

On April 12th with the support of the charitable organization "Sagasitas-Ukraine" Open Competition in Radio-Orienting was held. The competition was held in the Kozhedub Central park. 38 participants were fighting for prizes.

Kids have learnt about one of the most major characteristic of the important Christian holiday Easter - Easter Egg (Pysanka), its origin, types, symbolism, technique and role in spring rites by watching e-presentation. Presentation 'Easter Surprises' was prepared and shown by workers of aesthetic education department of Ostrovsky Sumy Region Children library. On specially prepared wooden eggs children created beautiful things using decoupage technique. They decorated their small Faberge Eggs with small stones, crystals, sequins. For each pysanka we created small nests in which children took their artwork to home. Although the workshop was aimed only for children, mothers and grandmothers also joined to the creative process. At the end of workshop both volunteers and mothers of the project Children_ATO agreed that there was a need to hold something creative and memorable for adults.
Special gratitude is for the German organization AG Ukraine-Chemnitz-Europa e.V. for the stationary for the workshops and for special surprises. Each child who has tried the hand at our workshop received a present. We have handed to everyone German chocolate Easter calendar and the girls have received fashionable handbags to the May holidays.

Links:

• Children_ATO