Children's Fund

Children after Bath	And new clothes	Children visiting in spring 2004
For the Winter 2003 Thanks Everyone
Some of the Neighbor children come by to say hello to Kevin.

We started our Children street fund in 2003. Within a Year we had most of these children off
the street and into shelters. In 2004 we have reached our goal of getting these children taken care of.
Currently there are only a few children left on the street because they refused to stay in the shelters.
We still provide basic need to the street children but have now focus on the Shelters and Village children for 2004
 

The photos bellows show our history with the children.
 

Children get ready to get their summer clothes.  The problem is we can't wash their old clothes as they are too fare gone.	Most of these children wash once a month if luckily. During the winter we require them to wash every two weeks at the city showers and before getting any new clothes.
Roll Call, Everyone with new clothes.	October 11, 2003. Lunch call. We get 5-10 kids a day that show up for free food at 2pm at the office. Our cost is only $8-$15 a day to feed them. (Yana, Lana or myself will take them daily)

New clothes and hair cut's for the boys.

Each child is given food daily from my office. I also provide baths and clothes as needed. Medical and Dental need are being address as fund become available. . The summer month are coming and we need summer clothes.

In Ukraine the school system goes to the 9th grade. Only a few select children from shelters ever go to advance schools.  Most of these children have a problem with Glue and suffer health problems because of their addiction to it.  Most mother were either kill in a auto accident or abusive.

Having no experience with homeless children, I can only provide the basics to survive. Any help would be appreciated. Most of the boys will never see man hood.

Name		Age	education	Mother	father	family	Medical	comments
Boys
Sasha #1		14	8th grade	Dead	Unk	Brother	Abscess on arm
Vova		14	6th grade	Abuse Alcoholic	Dead	3 brother 2 sister in another city	None
Zheniya		16	4th grade can’t read/write	Alcoholic	Birth father  in Israel Jewish	Brother	cough, need vitamins and dental	Small for his age,
Tolik		16	9th grade	Dead	Unk	Brother	dental, sore throat, broken finger
Sasha #2		15	4th grade read/write bad	Unk	Abuse Alcoholic	Brother drug dealer	bad cough, cold sores, throat, abscess on eyes and bad liver	Small for his age,
Timofei		15	3rd grade, can’t read or write.	Homeless	location Unk	grandmother and brother Oleg	dental	Family from village
Sergey #1		17	9th grade	Orphan	Orphan	Aunt	dental	Has a state guardian an a Apartment
Oleg #1		16	8th grade	Abuse Alcoholic	Unk	Sister grandmother	cough, sore leg	Has a state guardian an a Apartment
Oleg #2		14	3rd grade, can’t read or write.	Homeless	Unk	brother Timofei	dental	mother is living in street
Michael		17	5th grade	prison	Unk	Grandmother	cough, bad kidneys, dental	Living on his own
Sergey #2		18	8th grade	Orphan	Orphan	brother	Dental, cold sores, cough	very small for his age
Girls	Two sisters
Christina		14	7th grade	Abuse Alcoholic	Abuse Alcoholic	sister Irina	cough, sore on leg, need vitamins	½ year on streets
Irina		13	6th grade	Abuse Alcoholic	Abuse Alcoholic	sister Christina	Pain in left side	her and sister live on streets.

If you wish to help, we can use clothes for summer and families to adopt these children. It cost me around $12 a day to feed these kids.

The following items are needed.  Clothes for summer. Medical and dental treatment. Education grants.

If you have any questions please email me at kevin@khersongirls.com

Thanks

Kevin Hayes

Here is a Word document about life in Russia for the homeless children. Click here children.doc

A special thanks to Jeff and Lou.