Humanitarian and Welfare...What We Are Doing June 2020

The first onsite project we went to was in Brovary, Ukraine. This clinic is for blood donors. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was able to provide freezers for saving the blood supplies. Now that this facility has this equipment other hospitals around Kiev come to purchase the supply. The hospital itself does not have to purchase the supply when used in their own hospital. 

The second project we visited was in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. This was a clinic that requested some therapy equipment for Autistic children. This clinic provided a school program for children ages 3-18. This gives the mothers/fathers time for themselves. 

We traveled further west to Ivano-Frankivsk where we had a closing ceremony with the doctors and staff. The church had donated an anesthesia-breathing apparatus. Here is the Facebook link: Ivano-Frankivsk Hospital Facebook Page

Next we visited an ophthalmologist hospital outside of Lviv in a forested area. The windows were all donated several years back from the church.  We are trying to fill another project by bringing an ophthalmologist to do some training. This is a longer project and takes a lot of planning. This room represents a prep room and recovery room for the children who would receive operations. There are 7 of these rooms which are in poor shape, but they are not used because of COVID. On the other side of the building are more private rooms with updated beds and tables. 

The children's hospital in the forest. 

The Lviv Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Next we went to Lviv. Lviv reminds me of an Austrian town. The inner city has cobblestone roads and is famous for their Opera and Ballet Theater. There are many quaint places to eat either inside or outside. The city is bustling with foreigners and locals. There are many churches within short distances of each other. We were only able to stay there for dinner and get in the van again to our next destination of Lutsk

 Our next project we unloaded some equipment for another children's hospital in Lutsk. 

Here is the link for their Facebook page

Lutsk Children's Hospital Facebook Page

LVIV Opera and Ballet Theater