UNICEF and Amway open 4 new Play rooms under the project “A Child’s Smile”
Under the major charitable project “A Child’s Smile”, implemented jointly by UNICEF and “Amway”, about 60 playrooms and sensor rooms are to be set up at medical and social facilities for children all over Russia. This February alone, 4 playrooms are scheduled for opening in four Russian cities – Samara, Toliyatti, Nizhny Novgorod and Lomonosov (Leningrad region). A playroom in the City of Samara A sensor room in the City of Toliyatti “A great advantage of having a room like this one is that children can examine on their own different items of various shapes and materials, touch them and develop their fingertip contact sensations. I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have contributed towards the creation of such a room; all those who have assigned funds towards its equipment”, Natalia Zimina, the orphanage’s senior doctor, said.
A playroom equipped with sensor devices in the City of Nizhny Novgorod Children’s Municipal Clinical Hospital No.1 is the oldest and largest medical facility in Nizhny Novgorod. Every day, over 100 children and their parents approach this hospital for medical assistance.On February 10, a playroom opened its doors in the hospital’s surgery ward. “Presently, over 50 children are undergoing treatment at the surgery department”, the senior doctor Lyubov Smirnova said. “Children are very active, and just several days after they were operated on they can move around and need some space to play games. We are happy to have such a room where children can play as much as they want”. Indeed, the new playroom has everything the children may need for their rehabilitation – a “dry” swimming-pool, all sorts of toys, meccano sets, special treadmills for orthopedic correction, hand massage balls and feetballs. A specially selected combination of light and music allows the children to blow off steam and relieve their emotional stress, while caregivers and psychologists will help them with their physical and psychological rehabilitation. The opening of a playroom in Lomonosovo is scheduled for February 13, 2009. In addition to the above cities, playrooms and sensor rooms have been set up in Buisk, Barnaul, St.Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Petrozavodsk and Irkutsk.
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