Jonathan Darlington has been supporting “Kleine Herzen” for more than a year now. The non-profit organization supports children living in economically disadvantaged countries.
“I am very excited about having the opportunity to give my wholehearted support to the kleine herzen organization. I can think of nothing more worthwhile than to be able to help and give to those who haven’t had the same good fortune in life as I have; especially children. What the foundation has achieved with very limited means and within such a short space of time is nothing short of miraculous. I can only admire the effort and dedication of all those involved and lend as much help and support as possible while encouraging others to do the same.”
Read the latest news after the break …
We are pleased to inform you about the latest developments and achievements of the association. What’s new at kleine herzen?
- Opening of our orphanage in Kiev>
- New Star for kleine herzen >
- Invitation to concert of young talented musicians >
OPENING OF OUR ORPHANAGE IN KIEW
Our association supported in 2008 the construction of a new family home/orphanage for 10 orphans in Kiev. We succeeded to find a generous sponsor, the OFID (the OPEC Fund for International Development), who financed a large part of the construction costs. On January 4th 2009 something unbelievable happened: a serious gas explosion destroyed our family home in Kiev which was at this time almost finished. Despite this disaster, we were determined to finalise the project.
Thanks to the non-profit association H. Stepic CEE Charity and the Raiffeisen bank AVAL for their generous financial support, we managed to rebuild the house.
Today, the family home is completed and on May 6th, kleine herzen and Caritas-Spes together with their main sponsors, celebrated with joy the opening of the new family home. The opening ceremony was a great success and has given us much hope and energy for our future projects. The children of our family homes/orphanages from Kiev and Zhitomir attended the opening.
You can read the minutes of the ceremony and look at some pictures on the homepage of kleine herzen.
Minutes of the ceremony in German >
Minutes of the ceremony in English >
Pictures of the ceremony >You can also read the press release of OFID: „OFID Director-General attends opening ceremony of children’s home in Kiev, Ukraine“
During my short stay I visited the children of the family homes not far from Kiev: houses St. Josef, John-Paul II, Mary and Josef Holzman.
NEW STAR FOR KLEINE HERZEN
We are proud and happy to welcome Mr Ian Piper, Director of the Danube International School in Vienna as new supporting star (“Stern”) of the association.
INVITATION TO CONCERT OF YOUNG TALENTED MUSICIANS
We are pleased to invite you to a concert of young talented musicians on June 16th 2010. This concert is organized under the project „Children help children” in cooperation with the association ERVIK.
The concert starts at 18.30h in the Baroque room of the old city hall of Vienna,
1010, Wipplingerstrasse 8.The entry is free, donations are appreciated and the benefit will be given to the young musicians.
The concert will be recorded and a CD will be produced. The net profit of the sale of the CD will be donated to kleine herzen children projects in Ukraine and Russia.
The project Children help children (in German) >
Concert registration >„Many small people who do many small things in many small places can change the face of the world”
from the Xhosa (South Africa)We thank you for your loyalty
with our best regardsPascale Vayer and Anna Galkina
“kleine herzen”
Mobil: +43 664 501 38 90
Fax: +43 2273 29357
www.kleineherzen.org
Posted by JKL, 18 May, 2010
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