Saipan Rotary Club and Rotary Club Vladivostok-Eco worked together since early May to fulfill one more time the motto of the Rotary Year, “Make Dreams Real,” by joining the city’s weekly newspaper Konkurent’s “Warm Windows” Charity Drive for the hospital.
Due to deteriorating wooden windows, the hospital needed 48 new glass windows and three of the first fifteen windows purchased and installed were sponsored by the two Rotary Clubs.
Rotary Club of Saipan donated funds for two windows.
Even if it is almost summer in Vladivostok, it is rainy and cold and the Pacific winds blow through the rooms, where 105 orphan kids, ages three weeks to four years old live. The children are also in need of pampers and wet napkins, toys, clothing and shoes, strollers and furniture, among others.
A few weeks ago, a delegation from Rotary Club Vlad-Eco visited the hospital together with journalists to present the new windows and conduct a familiarization tour in the facility.
Rotary Club Vlad-Eco President Igor Novozhilov, Asst. Governor District 5010 Mikhail Bathan, President Elect Evgeniy Tselev, Past President Olga Luzganova, project coordinator Elena Kreknina and Tom Armbruster, US Consul General in Vladivostok joined the tour.
They were also joined by journalists from Konkurent and Japanese news agency, Kyodo Tsushin.
The delegation was welcomed and assisted by Dr. Valentina Nikolaevna, Chief Operations Director of the hospital.
Dr. Nikolaevna is in charge of the hospital for 30 years and she shared with the Rotarians the history of the medical facility and the problems that it faces.
She also showed the Rotarians some of the old wooden windows and the new ones that were installed. The group also discussed the destiny of the orphan kids in the hospital.
Dr. Nikolaevna explained that the hospital participates in adoption program with the U.S. and many of the kids were already adopted and live with their new parents on the mainland. She showed the group a wall with a map of the U.S. and photos of all the adopted kids.
The Rotarians then placed stickers on the three windows donated by the two Rotary Clubs and took pictures.
The Rotary Club Vlad-Eco also promised to bring 12 kids in the age of 4 together with two supervising doctors to a children’s fairytale play in the Vladivostok Theater.
Pacific Islands Club Saipan also had purchased one of the first windows for the hospital. Inspired by the two Club’s actions, multiple donors came in and purchased the more windows.
By last Saturday, there are only eight windows left to repair and many of the city’s citizens have donated pampers, clothing, wet napkins, as well as purchased new furniture.
Following this successful project, the Rotary Club of Saipan and Rotary Club Vladivostok-Eco are in process of establishing a sister club relation. To help or for more information on this fundraiser, visit http://www.konkurent.ru/action.htm.
