$150,000 LifeNets Container
leaves for Ukraine
December 22, 1999
- Photos of the loading process
- Photos of Warren and Joan Ott of Springfield, MO packing and bringing large load to the container
- Supplementary photos
- The Container leaves Indiana
After two years of packing, sorting, storage, a ten ton, twenty foot container heads out from the warehouse of Jim and Sarah Osborn for Chernihev, Ukraine to "Ukraine Revival" Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped Children directed by Dr. Vasil Pasechnik. This was a tremendous team effort which included a diversity of people who collected and transported tons of life-sustaining humanitarian aid to suffering children, some directly as a result of radiation leakage from Chernobyl a mere 40 miles east of the most dreadful nuclear accident in the world. Contributions for this container poured in from around the world, including Singapore and Holland. It included teen drives in Dallas/Ft. Worth. A substantial volume of equipment and supplies came from Warren and Joan Ott of Springfield, Missouri. Shipping is provided by the U.S. State Department.
Items on the way include examination tables, an x-ray machine, hospital beds, children's clothing, blankets, hats, school supplies along with developmental toys and tons of other medical supplies and equipment.
The final packing of 207 boxes was done by United Church of God members from Lafayette and Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday, December 21, 1999.
In addition to this container, we are sending $60,000 worth of medicines and making a cash contribution of nearly $11,500 in cash provided by the International Chernobyl Children's Trust in the United Kingdom headed by Maurice Frohn.
I can safely say that for every dollar donated we have provide $25 of direct aid to intended recipients who we know well. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
I would like to give the following credit for their support of this project:
- Beverly Kubik for her patience and active support
- Mike Snyder for untold hours of promoting this project
- United Churches of God
- Jim and Sarah Osborn for storage, handling, bookkeeping
- Willis and Brenda Hogg of Dallas, Texas for spearheading a special youth drive to collect a lot of the items on this container
- Warren and Joan Ott for outstanding hospital donations and for driving them up from Springfield, Missouri
- OCG (Ozark Church of God - Independent) in SW Missouri for paying for shipping hospital supplies from Missouri to Indiana. Special thanks to pastor Mike Anderson and his wife Gloria.
- Rusty and Randy Ott who supplied storage in Springfield, MO and helped gather supplies
- Ted and Trudi Scott who collected supplies in Springfield, MO
- KO Manufacturing in Springfield for 440 pounds of laundry detergent and 10 gallons of hospital disinfectant cleaner.
- Clifford Beauchamp for hospital beds, 2 exam tables, therapy table, large gurney, 26 pairs of new shoes, hand soap, dressing supplies, blankets, scrubs, lab jackets, infant and childs blood pressure cuffs, exam gloves, syringes, IV supplies and a wheel chair
- The Kitchen, Inc in Springfield, MO infant exam table, 13 children's walkers, wheeled toilet chairs, shower chairs and canes
- Frank McCrady for promoting and supporting the youth collections in Dallas, Texas
- The Terre Haute and Lafayette United Church of God congregations
- Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon for personally supporting this project by hosting Dr. Vasil Pasechnik, director of the clinic at the Governor's Residence in August 1999
- Ron Schemenauer of Advent Design for designing and publishing brochure about the Chernobyl Project
- John Lambert of New York for shipping high quality hospital equipment to container site
- Mary Sandmann of Compassion Humanitarian Relief in Minneapolis for securing the container
- Maurice Frohn for his friendship, travels and work in Chernihev with Dr. Pasechnik and for helping provide for the purchase of large quantities of medicine
- U.S. Department of State for paying for the shipping from Indiana to Ukraine
- Jennifer Swenson for professional philanthropic advice
- The St. Paul United Church of God for cash donation
- Lighthouse Ministries and Dale Collie for computer and clothing donations
- Sue Johns for dental consulting
- Dr. John Merritt for arranging Dr. Pasechnik's promotional tour at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee
- Teddi Treybig for writing about Dr. Pasechnik's rehabilitation center and helping host him in Memphis, Tennessee and Columbia, Missouri in the summer of 1999
- Eli Lilly Corporation in Indianapolis
- Michael Kubik
- Paul and Monica Kieffer
- Dr. and Mrs. Tony Pacelli for organizing Day and Week of Thanks the last few years
- Caroline Whitt for container packing coordination
- Ken Zahora, Katie Swenson, Ben Swenson, Levi Osborn, John Swenson, Jake Osborn
- Ron Dart of CEM Ministries for promoting our humanitarian work in Ukraine
- Sharon Treybig
- Lonnie Gjesvold of Minneapolis for generous flour donations
- Guy Swenson for providing communications support
- Girl Scout Troop 358 of Indianapolis
- Linda Ribolini, Advisor, Boston Post Leo Club leader-Senior Scout Troop #1657
- Mike Blackwell for supporting Springfield, Missouri's UCG help
- The Living Stones for benefit concert for this container
- Katherine Rowland for collecting large quantities of school supplies
- Jamie Snyder for children's toys and school supplies
- Mike Grovak for helping to organize benefit concert
- Tom Peine, vice-president of Peine Engineering
- Janet Pole, DDS
- The Journal of the Churches of God for writing about our work in Ukraine
- John Robinson and the House of White Birches for donations of high quality children's blankets
- Radio Stations WASK, WILO, WAZY, WBAA, WKHY and TV 18 in Lafayette and Frankfort, Indiana for interviews and talk shows featuring our project
- Steve Grabowski for donations of eyeglasses and frames
- Tom Kirkpatrick
- Kathi Osborn for securing dental X-ray machine
- Cathy McClure for collection of children's school supplies
- Dennis and Joan Shappard of Vincennes, Indiana
- Jeff and Joan Osborn
- Rosalind Yong of Singapore
- Vern Kaspar of WILO radio in Frankfort, Indiana for promoting our need for financial help for medicines in radio interview
- Ed DeLaney
- Please forgive me if I have left anyone out
- Photos of the loading process
Victor Kubik