NASHI Volunteers in Ukraine - 2009

NASHI Volunteers travelled to Ukraine to work on the Klenovi Lyst Project

NASHi Volunteers at the entrance to Stoyaniw	Official greeting by the townspeople	One of the youngest in her finest	Distributing gifts to the local children	Father Bohdan and family
Part of the welcoming choir	Making new friends	Our general contractor Vasyl	The Safe House with renovations in progress	Interior of Safe House showing backfill
One of the larger ground floor rooms	Beginning of the plaster/tile removal	Chipping away old plaster with hammer and shovel	Removing old tile and stove	The bucket brigade moving rubble to the 2nd floor
Wielding the big bar	Sorting and stacking brick for the roof addition	Stacking bricks on the roof	Nice and clean, ready for the bricklayers	Father Bohdan supervising from above
Loading the crane with new bricks	Chipping away at the plaster	"The Bandits" attack the bathroom tiles	Removing the plaster rubble for backfill	Hand shaping rebar for window frames
The rebar in place for the bricklayers	A finished window frame	Bricklayers at work	More progress on the roof	A rewarding supper after work
The ceremonial planting of a maple tree in front of the...	Young orphans near Lviv dance for the visitors	NASHi volunteers stop at a poppy field	World heritage architecture in Lviv	Actual living conditions for most of the city
Restored shopping district in Ternopil	Decaying infrastructure away from the city centers	Lviv from Vasoky Zamok	Carpathian homestead	Few activities are available for unemployed youth
Intense manual labour is still the norm	Fishing by the man made lake in Ternopil	70 year old 'Baba' hand cutting and raking hay	New cars are everywhere thanks to new 30% credit	One of the rare pieces of farm machinery
Fake posting for work in Canada to entice young people	New suburbs springing up near Ivano Frankusk	Typical city apartment	Urban decay is rampant away from tourist areas	City centers are being restored
Typical village street	A rich wheat crop near Stoyaniw	Carpathian homesteads outside Kosiv	The local chess hangout in Ivano Frankusk	You can buy anything at the Kosiv Bazaar
Another beautiful Carpathian scene	Countryside outside Ternopil	Chernivtsi University	Drying wool near Kociv	Newer homes outside Chernivtsi
Hay fields and grdens carved out of the Carpathian forest	Bags of live chickens heading to market	Highway scene outside Chernivtsi	Most volunteers spent some time with distant family members	Working the garden in the village
Carpathian cattle pastures	Hand cut hay gathered into stooks for drying

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