Bechtel National Facilitates Donation of Former Project Kitchen and Dining Hall to Ukrainian Orphanage.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 With echoes of the cold war as a backdrop, Bechtel National, Inc. is facilitating an international effort to lend a helping hand to a struggling 67-year-old Ukrainian orphanage ORPHANAGE, Eng. law. By the custom of London, when a freeman of that city dies, his estate is divided into three parts, as follows: one third part to the widow; another, to the children advanced by him in his lifetime, which is called the orphanage; and the other third part may be by him that is badly in need of assistance. Involved is a donation to the Vorzel Orphanage near Kiev of a 200-person kitchen and dining hall that was once used by Bechtel work crew who are helping to dismantle and destroy a stockpile stock·pile n. A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained. tr.v. stock·piled, stock·pil·ing, stock·piles To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use. of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile intercontinental ballistic missile: see guided missile. (ICBM ICBM: see guided missile. ICBM in full intercontinental ballistic missile Land-based, nuclear-armed ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,500 mi (5,600 km). Only the U.S. ) launch silos and control centers in Ukraine. A formal ceremony to officially hand over the donation have been set for June 8 on the orphanage grounds. Since 1995, San Francisco-based Bechtel National has been providing project management, integration, and construction management services for the missile dismantlement project under a contract awarded by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (or DTRA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) whose primary function is to analyze potential threats to the United States, both homeland and abroad, and provide contingency plans for all such (DTRA DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA Dirt Track Racing Association DTRA Deseret Towers Recreation Area (Utah) DTRA Data Terminal Ready A DTRA Defense Technical Review Agency DTRA Defense Technical Review Activity ). The assignment is one of 10 similar weapons elimination projects in which Bechtel is involved in both Ukraine and Russia. All of the work is being carried out as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR See click-through rate. ) agreement reached by the U.S. and former Soviet Union governments under terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) Negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union aimed at reducing those countries' nuclear arsenals and delivery systems. Two sets of negotiations (1982–83, 1985–91) concluded in an agreement signed by George Bush and (START 1) Treaty. Don Hughes, Bechtel National's vice president of CTR project, said it was determined earlier this year that the project's fully-equipped kitchen would no longer be needed. Shortly thereafter, DTRA and personnel from Bechtel's Kiev office worked together to transfer ownership of the facility to General-Colonel Volodymir A. Mikhtyuk, deputy minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and commander of the Ukrainian 43rd Rocket Army. General-Colonel Mikhtyuk, in turn, donated the kitchen and its accompanying tables and equipment to the orphanage. The Vorzel institution, designed to care for homeless and orphaned children from newborn to age 4, currently houses 135 youngsters. "Because of very limited funding, this institution's buildings and facilities have not been repaired or maintained for more than 60 years and are generally in poor shape," said Scott Nelson Scott Nelson (born September 6, 1985) is an American soccer player who currently plays for the Houston Dynamo team in Major League Soccer. Nelson played four years at Furman University, scoring thirty one goals during his collegiate career and fighting back from a hip injury , Bechtel National's CTR program manager for Ukraine. "We're extremely happy that we could play a part in helping the Ministry of Defense get this vital resource to a facility where the need is so obvious." Volodymir H. Mkrtychev, headmaster of the orphanage, said the acquisition of the kitchen facility will allow the institution to better care for "our treasured children." The orphanage's deputy headmaster, Tatyana V. Lymar, adds that "it is people like this whose understanding of the word 'charity' makes this a very different world. We are grateful for the effort they've taken to make this happen and for taking our children's problems to their hearts. Knowing others care helps us survive our hardships." Bechtel National, the government contracting arm of Bechtel Group, Inc., has more than 14,000 personnel currently working on more than 50 active projects worldwide that generated $2.4 billion in revenue during 1999. |
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