Therefore, in connection with the Baby Nutrition Center we are also planning a Children's Free Diagnostic Laboratory which will take sick children's blood, urine and fecal samples to the lab on a daily basis and make quick and accurate reports. These plans require us to find a place to set up operations and two vans for distribution and pick-up. The ministry of Health Protection has given our program the green light and will likely provide housing in an abandoned kindergarten not too far from the center of town. We have looked at three kindergartens now and have one picked out, but even though it is big enough, the buildings are in terrible shape and entirely uninhabitable as they stand now. We need to put the building and grounds in order vigorously, install equipment and put our Foundation and some departmental offices in place there.
Staff needs to be hired and distribution developed.
We will be sharing specific costs on different aspects of Olivia Project later as they become more clearly defined but initial estimates of the entire start-up cost are running in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Olivia blossomed under the care and feeding of her new family. We believe that good food will save starving babies and we want to cooperate with God in His watchcare over them. Only a year ago we would not have had the faith to begin such an ambitious undertaking. But along with changes in the spiritual atmosphere of Crimea and a more moderate political climate we believe we are getting clear signs that we should be moving ahead in this matter.