Projects: Available - Project 150 - Windows - Shevchenkovo Orphanage

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Kharkov Rotary Club, in the Ukraine, seeks $24,120 in total (including matching grants) to replace windows in the aging orphanage in Shevchenkovo Village, Kharkiv Region, Ukraine.  It was established in 1972 to house children with mental disorders.  There has been very little maintainance and repair since then.  Like the rest of the place, the windows are old and do not keep heat in the building.  In the cold environment of winter, many children, weakened by the cold, have poor health and are suseptible to disease.   The facility houses children 4 through 18 years of age.  The orphanage specializes in training children self-care and life skills, such as shoe repair, embroidery, digging and drawing.  Reading and writing are provided for those who are capable.

They need 252 double glazed window units but right now they  most urgently need 60 windows  for the bedrooms and classrooms,

A schedule of matching grants will be published here soon.  Meanwhile, please contact  Mark Harbison or Steve Moksnes if you are interested in giving warmer rooms to these children.

The Kharkov City Rotary works closely with the orphanage supplying a color TV and karaoke system in 2004, tickets to the annual New Years Circus.   They held an auction in March 2006 to sell hand made crafts (embroidered towels and hankerchiefs) which produced $1425 which was spent on blankets, curtains and carpets.