Receiver
organisation
LC Vallentuna have good
experience and a working routine for transports with humanitarian aid to
Novozybkov.
Our goal is to take the
initiative to charter a Lions Club i the town. The reason is that we need a
trustable receiver organisation to our transports with humanitarian aid.
We prefer to work with a
Lions Club, since the Commission for Humanitarian Aid within the Russian
Federation has great confidence in our movement.
Activities
The member of the project comes from LC Vallentuna, LC Täby
and LC Norrköping. Our clubs will with different activities collect as much
money as possible to the project.
The project management will with information, good advices, help and
public relation stimulate to new activities within our own clubs as well as in
others to collect as much money as possible to the project.
The project management will also
– with help from other clubs – administrate transports with humanitarian aid as
for instance medical equipment and furniture to the maternity hospital in
Novozybkov. At the moment we have a store house full of medical equipment to a
value of about 2,5 million SEK that shall be sent to dr Lydia’s hospital.
The project management will take
every possibility that comes to give humanitarian aid, if we can and if it will
be to any good for Novozbykov. Medical equipment like for example laboratory
equipment and computers would be very useful. A Lions laboratory or a Lions
computer café in Novozbybkov would be of great publicity value.
Humanitarian aid that we
have already carried out
Lions Club Vallentuna has been
involved in some humanitarian aid projects to Novozybkov already. The total
value of the help is calculated to about 1,5 – 2 million SEK.
· LC Järna, LC Gnesta, LC Högalid, LC
Vallentuna and LC Täby have since 1997 several times sent about 10
long-distance trucks with medical equipment (to the main hospital), Christmas
presents for children, food, clothes, furniture and other kinds of humanitarian
aid to Novozybkov.
· Sven Nahlin (at the time member of
LC Järna) and Monica Antonsson (now LC Vallentuna) drove in April 1999 two
ambulances given by Rolf Sundevall, SOS International, to the main hospital in
Novozybkov.
· Monica Antonsson (now LC Vallentuna)
and her private friends (among others Roger Larsson now LC Vallentuna) founded
the society ”Help to Children of Chernobyl” and drove (with support of LC
Vallentuna) in June 2000 four mini buses with lifts for wheel chairs and one
ambulance (for main hospital) till Novozybkov. The vehicles were given by
Färdtjänsten, Samtrans, Taxi 020 and SOS International and were given to
maternity hospital, the orphanage (children’s home), the Chernobyl Union (the
liquidator organization) and to the Administration. All vehicles were filled
with medical equipment and humanitarian aid.
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· LC Vallentuna sent in September 2002
a long-distance truck with for example two brand new autoclaves given by
Getingeverken, three incubators and a lot of furniture to dr Lydia’s maternity
hospital. We also sent 60 computers to the school and 1500 Christmas presents
for the orphanage (from LC Täby).
Some pictures from our journey 2000
For three days we were stuck in the Russian custom.
The weather was nice but the mosquitoes were thirsty
for blood.
We had
a motor fire…
And a
flat… But we manage to reach Novozbykov- · A delegation from Lions Clubs 101-S visited Moscow and Novozybkov in October 2002. The representatives were IRD Bruno Pettersson (LC Norrköping), LP Anders Rönnholm, Roger Larsson and Monica Antonsson from LC Vallentuna. In Moscow we carried out negotiations with LC Moscow capital as well as the Commission for Humanitarian Aid of the Russian Federation. In Novozybkov we carried out negotiations with dr Lydia Vladimirovna Bavkunova and mayor Ivan Nesterov. There is a special travel report of 40 pages in Swedish that can be asked for from monicaantonsson@telia.com.
- · LC Vallentuna financed in November 2002 a new roof at the maternity hospitals building A to a total cost of 100 000 rubel, about 30 000 SEK (at the time about 3 000 USD).
- · A delegation from Novozybkov visited LC Vallentuna during ten intentive days in April 2003. They were dr Lydia Bavkunova with husband Anatoly, mayor Ivan Nesterov and vice mayor Vitaly Roschkov (responsible for the Chernobyl’s questions in Novozybkov) with his wife
- · Tamara, who is our interpreter. Besides there were also Olesya Shovkoshitnaya – who were evacuated from Chernobyl as a ten year old school girl 1986 – from Kiev, Ukraine. The purpose were to show them a little bit of the West and to negotiate about a future cooperation. Above all we wanted to show them the work of Lions Club. They also visited a club meeting at LC Vallentuna.
