25 children from Kamianske orphanage successfully evacuated to Switzerland
Photo: OPU
From now on, 25 wards of the Kamianske Specialized Orphanage from the age of four months to five years will be able to live in peace and receive proper medical care in the canton of Vaud in the Swiss Confederation.
Rubryka reported this, referring to the OPU.
According to the President's Office, 17 of them are deprived of parental care. One child is a biological orphan after the death of his mother, who left her in the maternity hospital.
Seven were sent to the orphanage by the children's service. Among them are children with certain health conditions.
"Children are safe. They will fall asleep in silence, not to the sounds of air-raid alarms. This is the most important thing. Thank you for the evacuation of the smallest residents of the region," said Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration.
At first, the kids were taken by train to Helm, Poland, and from there they were taken to this country by specially equipped buses from the Swiss side, the report says.
The evacuation was supported by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and made possible by the proper cooperation of the Embassy of Ukraine in Switzerland, the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, and other organizations with local social partners led by Philippe Leub, State Councilor Vaud, and Sisley Amarel, Councilor Vaud.
"We also thank the volunteers, doctors, nurses, drivers, translators, and everyone who helped move the children to Switzerland and will take care of them during their stay there. Once again, we will not give our children to the war," said Olena Zelenska.
The team that implemented this project plans to transport children from other orphanages to Switzerland in the near future.
"I am extremely impressed with the care, level of organization, sincerity, and gravity with which the project team received our children.
It is gratifying to see people united by one noble goal coming together to provide the best conditions for young Ukrainians to stay in Switzerland," said Artem Rybchenko, Ukraine's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation.
