"Somewhere Someone Loves Me"
As featured on TV one. DVD's are available for $35 inclusive of postage. Please pay via the donate now button above and enter your details or contact us 0800 orphan. A great stocking filler!
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Projects
Casa Kiwi/Romania | Romanian hospitals | Ayushki/Russia
India/Kolkata | Nepal/Kathmandu
Casa Kiwi Romania
A home for children in Targu Mures Romania.
In May 2004 the van Schreven family travelled from NZ to Romania to see the establishment of a home for abandoned children. There was many and still is many children living in Romanian hospitals with no place of their own. The dream was to establish as much as possible a family type home for these children to be loved and grow up in. In July 2004 the first children arrived at Casa Kiwi {Fundatia Casa Kiwi Bucuriei} a Romanian foundation made up of Nzers and Romanians.
The home has now been home to 20 children 10 of which have been either adopted by Romanian families or reintegrated with their natural families and one teenager has become independent.
The home is staffed by Romanian people and has a resident Mother and Father.
The home is funded by sponsorship and gifts and OAI has responsibility for this. We visit with the home regularly and provide resources where needed. Casa Kiwi will continue to be a home for children to be loved and cared for.
Casa Kiwi House
A special thankyou to The Nehemiah Trust for their assistance in the purchase of the Casa Kiwi building.
Hospital Projects
OAI has been deeply concerned at the number of children that we cannot provide care for. The answer is to provide more homes like Casa Kiwi or to take the care to the children where they are. We want to do both! Since Casa Kiwi opened we have been visiting children in hospitals assessing the situations and seeing where we can help.
We want to see children of all ages whose only home is a hospital cot given a chance at a real life. We have begun to work to build relationships with hospitals in an effort to bring regular aid to abandoned/orphaned children. Practical things like fruit and good food and nappies and time to find out why no family member has come to collect them. If they are not cared for in a short period of time too much damage is done to the child and their quality of life sharply diminishes we want to help as many of these children as quickly as possible. Many Romanian hospitals are under resourced and simply cannot provide the care required.
Our immediate goal is to assist the hospitals in the Mures county where Casa Kiwi is based. And to assist further as we develop the staff/volunteers. We are doing this through other Romanian charities and also through OAI Romania.
Disabled children Craiova/ Romania
Jan Evans of Wellington has been visiting and working with the disabled orphans for the last 9 years. We are working together to see a home established in this city.
Auyshki/Russia
Sue returned from Russia in April this year encouraged to see the Auyshki centre for street kids and disadvantaged kids now operating. We have been working with a Russian foundation since 2005 to see this centre established. The centre feeds, clothes and provides care and encouragement for kids who otherwise wouldn't receive it. The Foundation also provides assistance to boys in a childrens prison, to children whose parents are in prison and to children in orphanages and institutions. We still have work to see the building completed and need approx $20000 NZ to achieve this.The centre will then be used more fully 7 days a week.
News flash we have received the $20000 needed to see the centre fully operating all is on target for October 2009
India/Kolkata
Sue travelled with OAI volunteer Lynn Baxter from Queenstown NZ to Kolkata India in September 2007. The result of this trip has been the establishment of a medical clinic to provide medical care to street children in Kolkata [formerly Calcutta] who would otherwise have no means to receive medical treatment and care. The children targeted are currently receiving food once a day from an Indian Foundation. Children and families who are locked in to poverty because of the Caste system and are considered outcasts can now have conditions treated and unnecessary suffering removed. We are raising regular sponsorships for this and need only approximately 25 more sponsors to see this happening with no financial stress. We hope to see a vehicle provided with which the doctor will be able to use to visit children in poor and remote places and provide care on the spot in a clean environment.
Nepal/Kathmandu
Orphans Aid International has taken responsibility for a home of 11 abandoned children in Kathmandu Nepal, they range in age from 5-15 years old. The home is operated under the Helpless Childrens Development Programme in Nepal. On visiting Kathmandu in September and October 2007 we were suprised to find the children were going without the very basics such as food and essential clothing. The children in Nepal who are without families who can support them lead a very hard life begging on the streets and without the ability to receive any kind of education to ensure a future. In October basic supplies were provided for the home to bring it to a standard we were comfortable with. To facilitate this we borrowed funds for immediate needs and are raising sponsorship. Christmas 2007 we were able to send extra funds through the Christmas gift programme. Orphans Aid is committed to building and growing with these relationships in India and Nepal and surrounding areas to ensure children who would otherwise suffer can be provided for.
Other projects
We have also assisted projects run by other groups in the Sudan and orphans of the Tsunami.
More information
If you would like more information on our projects please email mail@orphansaidinternational.org
Ivan Kostroma/Russia one of the children that has benefitted from OAI Christmas help
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Latest Updates
18 Jul 2010
Thanks for your patience as we make major changes to our website. More information coming soon! The new website will be awesome. In the meantime don't hesitate to contact us as we have further information either via email or post. We're all about rescuing children and we DO need your help. Thanks for visiting.
Sue
25 Jun 2010
Great news one of the children from our home in Romania has just been adopted out the 4th one this year to find a great family.
We're about to send out an annual report, please email us if you'd like to be added to our database. We need all the help we can get!!
Sue
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