Our First Ten Years • Recuperative Holidays • Neman Holiday Camp • Zhuravichi Boarding Home
Family Home 2000 • Rodni Kut • Mayflower Centre • Foster Care Training Programme
Children’s Hospice Care • Humanitarian Aid Deliveries • Special Class at School No 5
Vikov Home for Disabled Adults • Thanks to All Our Supporters

IN 2001 we brought Anya and Anton from Zhuravichi for a holiday in Devon and West Wales. Anya had severe cerebral palsy and Anton was blind and very weak. They had a wonderful holiday and developed beyond recognition in a couple of months. We had been planning to set up a children’s home for about 12 children, but this proved to be too complicated and bureaucratic. We felt we could not send the children back to Zhuravichi after such a taste of family life, so we managed to get them into a rehabilitation centre in Minsk for several months in between trips to Britain. And we brought over three other children – Stas and Nazar from Zhuravichi who both have cerebral palsy and Ira, who came from the Abandoned Babies Home. Ira was very bright but had been born with a cleft palate, missing fingers and severely deformed feet, almost certainly as a result of Chernobyl.
In the Summer of 2002 we bought a house in Rogachev; put in a bathroom and ramps and made it comfortable; found a wonderful man, Sergei,  to be the official guardian of the children; and employed a group of very caring women to be the children’s ‘aunties’.
At the beginning of 2003 the children moved in to Rodni Kut (Cosy Corner) and they have been very happy there. They have regular visits from physiotherapists and teachers and they take part in all      the parties and picnics at    the Rogachev Families Association.  They all have families in Britain who love them and they spend some time here each year. Many families, the Eucalyptus Trust  and the congregation of the Hanley Christian Centre in Stoke on Trent fund the children’s care. And Ira had her feet removed at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and is very proud of her prosthetic legs, on which she plays football and never tires of running around.