Vallentuna
2001-12-10
Dear Tamara and Vitalij!
I hope this
letter will reach you and all the people of Novozybkov in good health. I have
been trying to reach you through internet – your homepage is back – but young
Anton doesn´t answer. Maybe he has not got any computor with internet at the
moment?
Please
forgive me for not writing or calling to you. I have so much to do at my work –
but beside that we are working with this transport to you. Next week I will
know exactly what we will be able to send – and I am with good hope that we
will be able to give the Novozybkov hospital most of what you asked for. As you
probably know we will have to find everything for free – someone has to give it
to us as a gift. There are at the moment no money to buy such things for. But I
am, as I said, with good hope.
Lions
Club
Since we
met in July 2000, I have been working very hard to start a
Chernobyls-children-project for Novozybkov only within the Lions Club of
Vallentuna. I have succeeded now and I am in charge for it. But it is just a
start. Let me try to tell you a little about the Lions Club. See also the
information from internet that I printed out and put in the envelope.
There is a local
Lion´s Club in Vallentuna, where I live. We are about 50 members. We meet once
a month, make plans and eat a good dinner. Like every other Lions Club we are
working with charity in 1) Vallentuna, 2) Sweden and 3) the rest of the world.
In our
district – one part of Sweden – we are 45 different Lions Clubs. In the
whole country we are about 500 Lions Clubs. As you can see from the papers I
hereby send you there are 44 800 clubs with 1,4 million members in 187
countries in the world. All of them work with 1) local, 2) national and 3)
international projects.
That means:
There is a lot of humanitarian aid to get, if we can make Novozybkov their
special project – and we really are on our way! April 6th the
district will discuss and hopefully decide to take Novozybkov as a special
projekt. In July this – if everything work out properly – it will be a question
for the whole country. After that comes Skandinavia and after that the world.
Keep your fingers crossed and we will succed!
Now, what
does that mean?
A Lions Club in Novozybkov
Our first
step in Vallentuna Lions Club is to create a brother-Lions Club in Novozybkov.
We have to have someone to correspond with that we can trust and a
recieverorganization to work with. We need at least 20 honest people to be
members of the Lions Club. The president of Vallentuna Lions Club and others
will in time tell you how to do it.
Invitation
to Sweden
I hope to
be able to invite you to Vallentuna in the beginning of September, when
everything is set and done. My suggestion is:
1-2. Ivan
Nesterov – the head of the administration (to meet our mare) – with wife
2-4.
Svetlana and Vladimir – to represent Chernobyl Union
5. Dr Yuri
– the chief doctor (to study hospitals etc)
6. The
priest of your church
(Since our church wants to build some sort
of union with your church)
7-8 Vitalij
– as responsible for the Chernobyl problems – and of course your self.
We will of
course pay for your travel-costs and your costs here but we have to do it as
cheep as possible. You can:
- go by
train to Moscow and fly from there
- fly from
Minsk or Kiev
- drive to
Viborg and Helsinki in Finland and take the boat from there.
But you
dont have to decide that now. Just keep it in mind.
Lars has a
rather big house and I have a smaller one, so I suppose you can stay with
us.
Representatives will visit
Novozybkov – future help from Lions Club
After your
visit to Vallentuna representatives from our community will visit Novozybkov to
help you start a Lions Club. We were in fact planning to go by a special
aircraft last August, but something came up and it didn´t work. I hope we are
luckier this year.
We have to
meet and discuss what kind of help you need in the future and – and that is
important – what kind of help the Swedish people are prepared to give. I am
sure we can find some good solutions.
I have a
lot of ideas:
- We can
bring you a lot of medical equipment to the hospital.
- As a
special project we can get you (maybe buy in Russia) multi-vitamins, since that
seams to be what people in radioactive contaminated areas need. We might also
be able to get you better medicin for high bloodpressure and ulcerus.
- We can
try to find methods to clean areas from radioactivity
- We can
get you computors to a Lion´s Internetcafe, to the school and maybe to
the administration (custom?) An internetcafé can give you 2-3 new jobs.
- We can
support teachers to teach children English (you need it for internet).
Especially children without parents.
- Support
childrens camp outside the contaminated areas.
- Support
children without parents with money. A safe system is needed.
- Start an Lions
Secondhand shop in Novozybkov – since Swedish people want to give second
hand cloths. That could maybe give you 2-3 new jobs.
As I wrote,
this is only some ideas. We have to meet and discuss the future.
We like to send you 3
incubators and over 3000 christmas-presents immediately
As I told
you in the telephone we are preparing a transport. Since Nesterov asked for
other medical equipment, I will search for it before I send anything. I will
send you the gift letter by telefax as soon as possible. You must read it and
correct me
Therefore I
ask you, how shall I write the gift-letter? Do I have to give the exact number
of each computor for example? In that case, it will take some time, since we
have no place so deal with them. How soon do you think you can get the
humanitarian-aid-paper from Moscow.
Please let
me know what you think as soon as possible!
With love!
Monica
