At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union, Stichting Hulp Oost-Europa together with the Weeshuis der Hervormden (Lindenhof) and the Partnerhilfe foundations started to organise this, and by March 1995 after two years of construction the brand new, two-cone basic building (more than 130x130 feet) in Nagydobrony, near Uzhhorod in Ukraine was ready for occupation.
On December 1, 1995 the children's home was handed over with all due ceremony to the district of the Reformed Church of Transcarpathia to which it officially belongs.
Supporting funds were sufficient from the very beginning for a wide variety of things, so much so that whatever new building was needed it could be built from the surplus.
As one of the models for the country, the children's home is visited every year by government ministers, various regional medical officers and some church bishops too.
In this area, too, are the cowshed, stables, pig shed and various other farm buildings, garages, the workshop and stores.
In the fields and polytunnels, among other things, carrots, parsley, kohlrabi, potatoes, radish, cauliflower, peas, beans, tomatoes, paprika, beetroot, cabbage etc.
Cattle and pig stocks provide meat and dairy produce: milk, sour cream and cottage cheese.
The agricultural work required implements so, the staff (partly from donations) set up a machine pool consisting of several tractors.
Since 1999 there has been a combine harvester, and in 2006 the SARA foundation in the [United States - USA] donated a brand new [Belarus tractor].
Admission does not consider creed or ethnic background; only their need of help (i.e. difficult social environment) or those who are seriously handicapped physically or psychologically, orphans, one-parent children or those in situations where they are endangered.
3–4 years old children with various medical conditions have come from state orphanages, each one of them diagnosed there as mentally and physically handicapped and lacking the ability to speak.
Members of the local and neighbouring congregations can take their "own children" home from noon on Saturday till Sunday afternoon every second week.
In the grounds there is a flower bed (60 yards long by 30" wide) for the children where even those confined to wheel-chairs can enjoy the pleasure of gardening.
There are three small play areas, a soccer field, a 23 feet (7.0 m) diameter swimming pool and the opportunity to go horse riding too.