As a donor, volunteer, adviser or fan, your support has been critical this year. Last week, we featured 2008 accomplishments and future objectives for three programs: community centers, medical/therapeutic training, 
and volunteer medical care. Today, we will focus on these: at home care for disabled children, children's cardiac surgeries, and the Soltanovka adult asylum.
At home care for disabled children: The community care program takes disabled children off waiting lists for orphanages and provides their families with the support they need to care for their children at home. Click here to meet some of the kids you've helped.
In 2008, your support allowed us to expand the program from 18 to 24 families, provided a wheelchair accessible van so that home bound children could go on outings, allowed us to add therapeutic staff, and made it possible for several children to attend a summer camp for the first time. In 2009, we hope to continue to expand and improve this program, but your financial sponsorship is needed for children and for staff. Email me for more information.
Soltanovka Adult Asylum: Over the years, our volunteers and staff watched in dread and dismay as disabled children we love turned 18 and were moved to Soltanovka. Tragically, once committed, this is their final home. While we continue to develop alternatives to institutionalization, we cannot turn our backs on the almost 200 disabled adults of all ages who live here. In 2008, CCPI volunteers began a dental program, replaced old 
drafty windows and renovated showers and toilets, and built a bright new unit to replace a dank and dismal one. In 2009, with your support, we hope to replace another unit and a leaky roof, and develop training programs for staff that will raise the quality of life for the residents. Institutionalization strips away so much dignity -- we hope this photo album will give insight into the humanity and individuality of each resident of Soltanovka.
Kids' cardiac surgeries and training: This year, we expanded our cardiac surgery program into Ukraine where we saved scores of young lives and trained local medical teams to operate on children who are very small or have the most complicated defects. Next year, with your support, we will send volunteer surgical teams twice to Belarus, and 4 times to Ukraine. Please make a donation to support this life saving program, or email me to learn how to sponsor a mission.
Stay tuned: homes of hope and hospice
