Exhibition-Sale of Childrens Art

In the church:

We were kindly given permission by the Russian Orthodox Church of Amsterdam to organise an exhibition & sale of children's Artworks on the 6th, 7th & 13th of January 2002 during the Orthodox Christmas.

We received all of the artwork featured in the exhibition from the Crimean Regional Children Hospital (Ukraine) where the sick children in the hospital had created all of the artwork themselves (drawings, embroideries, beads handcrafts etc.).

This project has been a great initiative as it has given the children an opportunity not just to have to rely on others to help them, but instead has allowed the children be in a position to help themselves & other children in the hospital. Which will give them a fantastic feeling of achievement knowing that they have contributed something towards the cases in most urgent need of treatment.

The exhibition received a great response & we managed to raise the total amount of 405 Euro.
All of the funds raised from the exhibition will be used to help children within in the hospital who require the most urgent care.

We would like to thank everyone helped organised the event and to all those who contributed for your generosity & support.

Some of childrens artworks:


22-01-2002
In the beginning of January we were contacted by the Children's Hospital of Crimea with details of a young boy who is desperately in need of urgent treatment after suffering a relapse. Alexy Gustenko requires a second bone marrow transplantation for his condition lymphoma. After discussions with the Charity Foundation "Parental Initiative" who are based at the hospital, we decided that the best use of the funds raised from this campaign would be to donate the money towards the cost of Alexy's operation. Read more here...