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Another
LifeNets Container Headed for Chernihev, Ukraine April 19, 2005
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These are just
some of the items going on a LifeNets container to Ukraine: beds, cribs,
mattresses, wheelchairs and MUCH MORE!
Sue Peine and Beverly Kubik, both actively involved in this project are standing
in front of the consignment at Peine Engineering
that will be loaded on April 15th and 17th and off to Ukraine on April 18th!
"Help Me – I can’t get up!"
Updated April 15, 2005
Posted November 7, 2004
After 18 hours of exhausting labor, Natasha is the proud new
mother of an adorable baby.
She is in desperate need of some rest, but the only beds
available in the
hospital are sagging metal cots with no support. They are so stretched and the
mattress is only a thin pad that barely keeps the sharp springs from poking her
and her newborn baby. They are so uncomfortable it is nearly impossible to sleep
on them. She has to call for help to get up to go the bathroom.
Natasha’s story is typical of new mothers at the Women's Hospital in Chernihev,
Ukraine. These new moms are recuperating in beds that are so "saggy" they cannot
get out of them without assistance. The beds – a glorified camp cot - are so
stretched and the thin pads that serves as a mattress are so thin that they
won’t allow a woman to get out of bed by herself.
We are sending another container to Chernihev, Ukraine located 40 miles east of Chernobyl. Since 1996 we have sent five containers similar to the one pictured above to this area. People here still struggle trying to get necessary medical equipment, supplies and medicines and relies on people like us to help them until they are better able to establish themselves.
We have been helping this community through the "Revival" Centre for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Children that we helped set up back in 1996, the tenth anniversary of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear accident that to this day affects that health of people in the vicinity. Please go to www.lifenets.org/chernobyl to read the history of our working in this area.
We need your help – to find some of the items listed below or contributions to purchase new mattresses for this hospital.
Our goal is to ship this container before March 15 this year. If you can help us with any of the following items, we would appreciate it. Please write to us at container@lifenets.org.
Rubber matting for the children's play area (we found a supplier in
Anderson, Indiana....need financing to provide 70 square yards)
Mattresses
Pampers for children similar products for adults
One-use pillows
Lab coats
Rubber gloves for clinical use
Dental supplies of all kinds -- especially high quality filling material
Plastic used in prosthetics
Syringes
Stethoscopes
Money
We are shipping more beds on this container as well. If you would like to ease the pain of a young mother and buy a mattress for one of the beds, you can do this for a donation of just $60. All contributions to help with this project are tax-deductible.
LifeNets International
P.O. Box 88165
Indianapolis, IN 46208-0165If you could have heard the plea from the hospital administrator as I did, you would be moved to help with this project.
 The old beds with ultra-thin mattresses that are hardly three inches thick
Tom Peine, LifeNets chairman directs
the shipment of our next container to Ukraine from Indianapolis,
Indiana
Expectant mother on one of LifeNets beds
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On the last two containers LifeNets shipped beds and mattresses that were greatly appreciated. Bev Kubik shown in Neosho, Wisconsin where 2002 container shipment was staged.
There is no support at all on these old beds
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