Children's Project
The Children’s Project is an important part of Physicians With Heart. The Children's Project provides much needed items for children in orphanages, institutions, schools or hospitals in the recipient country. Items include vitamins, furniture, bedding, clothing, school supplies and toys.
During a Physicians With Heart airlift in 1998, attendees visited an orphanage in frozen Siberia and discovered the children there had no winter clothing. At the urging of Ruth Ostergaard, a collection was taken up to purchase coats and the Children's Project was born.
2011 Children's Project
The 2011 Physicians With Heart Children's Project made it's fourth visit to Kyrgyzstan. The Children’s Project selected two orphanages for assistance in 2011 and supported a reconstruction project, as well as purchased major items needed by the schools. In addition, the Children's Project provided essential items such as seasonal footwear and clothing items, school supplies and quilts to each facility.
Krasnaya-Rechka Home for Orphans and Homeless Children
This school is home to 140 socially orphaned or homeless children from 6 to 16 years. The Children’s Project provided a new commercial refrigerator/freezer, sewing machines, seasonal footwear, school supplies and sports equipment, as well as funded renovations of the kitchen used to prepare food for the children.
Tokmok Specialized Baby Home for Orphans with Disabilities
This school is home to nearly 100 children from infants to 4 years of age, with an additional 10 in the daycare program. The Children’s Project provided large block Legos for use in physical therapy, as well as seasonal footwear, a refrigerators, washing machines, baby care items and art supplies.
Past Children's Projects
-- See the impact of the Children's Project through the years.
AAFP Staff Walk for the Children
-- 2011 Walk for the Children of Kyrgyzstan.
