Past Children's Projects

The Children’s Project is an important part of Physicians With Heart. The Children's Project often provides crucial repairs and needed items for children in orphanages or hospitals in the recipient country. This project benefits hundreds of children each year.

The 2010 Children's Project returned to the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan October 23 - November 1, 2010. The project team spent time at three boarding schools, bringing with them backpacks, school supplies and lots of joy to the children at each school.

Boarding School #4 in Dushanbe
This school is home to nearly 400 socially orphaned and homeless children (ages 7 to 16). The Children’s Project team furnished two classrooms with school desks, chairs, blackboards, backpacks and school supplies. Children's Project delegates painted two murals at the school and handed out essentials such as socks, underwear, multi-vitamins and hygiene kits. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, the kids treated everyone to dancing and poetry.

Boarding School in Yavan
This school cares for 185 children (ages 6 to 18) and is home to 100 of them. The Children’s Project provided personal lockers for the children living at the school, plus desks, chairs, a blackboard and teacher’s desk for one classroom. In addition, children received new backpacks, school supplies, winter clothing items and quilts for their beds.

Boarding School for the Deaf and Mute in Rudaki
This school cares for 185 children (ages 6 to 18) and is home to 100 of them. The Children’s Project provided personal lockers for the children living at the school, plus desks, chairs, a blackboard and teacher’s desk for one classroom. In addition, children received new backpacks, school supplies, winter clothing items and quilts for their beds.

The 2009 Children's Project visited the Republic of Georgia. The team stopped at several sites where children are in great need due to fighting between Russian and Georgian troops in late 2008. The project team worked with the U.S. State Department to do small reconstruction projects at four children's facilities; and painted a mural, delivered clothing, quilts, vitamins, school supplies and equipment to children in the facilities and in remote villages.  New in 2009, children from local schools in Kansas sent greetings to the children in Georgia with personal letters, drawings and photos — connecting children half a world apart.

A 25-member delegation journeyed to Kyrgyzstan, former Soviet republic, for the 2008 airlift. The Children’s Project team visited two boarding schools. While at the Chuy Boarding School in the capital city of Bishkek, delegates replaced the heating system which had broken the previous winter due to extreme conditions. Additionally, delegates painted a special mural for the children. The delegation provided two classroom hearing aid systems and over 30 individual hearing aids for children at Special Boarding School #21 for Hearing Impaired and Deaf Children. As always, the Children's Project also brings toiletries, bedding, shoes, hats, gloves and many other items for the children at each school.

In 2007 the Vakhsh Boarding School in Tajikistan received a new shower building, towels, linens, vitamins and other supplies from this special project. Donations to the AAFP Foundation's International Fund enable the Children's Project to purchase important items for children who would otherwise go without.