The Russian and Eastern European Pediatric Health Organization (TRAEEPHO).

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The Russian and Eastern European Pediatric
Health Organization (TRAEEPHO).

• Who are they , what do they do, and why?

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Who is TRAEEPHO?

• The Russian and Eastern European Pediatric Health
  Organization (TRAEEPHO), is a Non-Profit
  Organization that provides homeless and orphaned
  Russian and Eastern European Children with a
  broad range of health care. Its services include
  medical care, medications, vitamins, formula,
  diapers, and clothing. They are distributed to
  needy children, regardless of sex, religion or
  ethnicity.

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Why was TRAEEPHO started?

• While in nursing school at Villanova we were
  assigned a research paper on Pediatric health
  care.
• It is then I learned about the overwhelming
  health care problem of Homeless and Orphaned
  Children in Russia and Eastern Europe.
• From this information I felt compelled to do
  something and TRAEEPHO was started.

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Who does TRAEEPHO Help?

• TRAEEPHO First Started working with an
  organization called Loves Bridge in 2003.
• In 2004 with The Friends of The Children of
  Chernobyl.
• 2006 with The Obolensky School The Children of
  Berezichi.
• 2007 with Kharberds Center for Specialized
  Children (SCON) Republic of Armenia.
• 2008 with Orphanage in St. Petersburg.

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Who is Loves Bridge?

• Loves Bridge was started by my good friends
  Jered Markoff and his sister Christina.
• While visiting their Grandparents in Perm Russia
  they notice lots of children running around on
  the streets.
• In Russia along there are over 3 million Homeless
  children that either live on the Streets, or in
  Orphanages. Some estimate there are more then 3
  million.

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Who is Loves Bridge?

• Who takes care of these children?
• Unless they are in an Orphanages, No one takes
  care of them. They fend for themselves on the
  streets.

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Who is Loves Bridge?

• Loves Bridge is an organization dedicated to
  empowering street youth in Russia to overcome
  their addictions, resume studies and become
  self-reliant.

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How does TRAEEPHO help Loves Bridge?

• TRAEEPHO helps Loves Bridge by supplying them
  with medications, vitamins, diapers, clothing,
  formula, and monetary means!!!
• We are working on a program with getting them
  books and videos in English.

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Who are The Friends of The Children of Chernobyl
(FOCC)?

• On 26 April 1986 at 012340 a.m. reactor number
  four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located
  in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine
  exploded. Further explosions and the resulting
  fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout
  into the atmosphere and over an extensive
  geographical area. Nearly thirty to forty times
  more fallout was released than Hiroshima.

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Who are the Friends of The Children of Chernobyl
(FOCC)?

• The plume drifted over parts of the western
  Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe,
  Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large
  areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly
  contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and
  resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to
  official post-Soviet data, about 60 of the
  radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

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Who are the Friends of The Children of Chernobyl
(FOCC)?

• The fallout from Chernobyl will be at a haft life
  in 26,000 years from the date of April the 26,
  1986.
• In total it will take Approximately 52,000 years
  before the land around Chernobyl is eradicated of
  radiation.

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Who are The Friends of The Children of Chernobyl
(FOCC)?

• After the explosion this is what was left of The
  Chernobyl Power Plant in Belarus / The Ukraine.

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Who are The Friends of The Children of Chernobyl
(FOCC)?

• Friends of Chernobyl's Children (UK) is a charity
  founded in 1995 that brings children, who are at
  risk, from Belarus to the United Kingdom for a
  month every year. The charity is named after the
  Chernobyl disaster of 1986. It is one of the
  oldest of the 20 Chernobyl-named charities
  registered with the Charity Commission.Each year
  over 1,000 children come over to Britain from
  orphanages or disadvantaged homes. They are also
  given a full year's supply of vitamins and
  medicine for them and, if money allows, other
  members of their family.

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How does TRAEEPHO help The FOCC ?

• Each year TRAEEPHO sponsors 2 children from
  Belarus / The Ukraine to go to the UK for
  treatment due to the effects of radiation from
  the fallout of Chernobyl.
• This includes Cancer treatments, Dental care, and
  a verity of other services.
• We also provide all new clothing.

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Who are The Children of Berezichi?

• The Prince A.D. Obolensky School for Special
  Children was established in 1964 on the grounds
  of the Berezichi Estate, the ancestral home of
  the Obolensky family since the 14th century.The
  school is presently home to 80 children, ages
  6-16. Most are wards of the Russian State and
  come from the local area. They are mentally
  handicapped, autistic, or have suffered emotional
  abuse stemming from domestic violence and other
  socio economic problems.

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Who are The Children of Berezichi?

• The school is the only safe and nurturing
  environment most of these children have ever
  known. Over 500 children have graduated from
  Berezichi and many have gone on to lead full and
  productive lives.

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What does TRAEEPHO do for The Children of
Berezichi?

• TRAEEPHO started a Vitamins program with The
  Obolensky School so the 80 to 100 children who
  live at the school can get the dietary
  supplements these young children need. Without
  our help many of these children would not get the
  Vitamins they need.

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What is the Specialized Children's Home of
Kharverds (SCON)?

• The Specialized Childrens Home of Kharverds is
  located in The Republic of Armenia.
• It is home to 226 special needs children, most of
  whom have Autism and other handicaps.

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What does TRAEEPHO do for the Specialized
Children's Home of Kharverds (SCON)?

• TRAEEPHO works with other organization such as
  the Deveux School to help train the staff of the
  SCON in working with handicapped children.
• Each year TRAEEPHO brings one staff member from
  the SCON to the U.S. for one week to get this
  vital training.

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The Orphanage of St. Petersburg

• A new member to the TRAEEPHO family.
• The orphanage houses about 60 children who are
  all up for adoption.
• The children range from the age of 12 months to
  17 years.
• At present we are supporting them with vitamins
  and we hope to expand help for them in the up
  coming months.

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So now you know what TRAEEPHO does.

• So what is the take home message?
• You young man and women living here in U.S.A., in
  the area we live in, are all very Privileged!!!
• The children you heard about today and saw may
  never get the same Privileges as you!!!

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So now you know what TRAEEPHO does.

• Seemingly small helps can make a big difference
  in other peoples lives.
• Any ordinary person, me or you, can help someone,
  even people we dont know.
• Find some way you can help someone else, no
  matter how small, and do it!!!
• I hope today I provided you with awareness of
  what is going on in the would around you!!!!

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For more information about TRAEEPHO.

• Or to find out how you can help!
• Go to our web site at www.TRAEEPHO.org
• Thank you all for listing and for your time!!!!