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Need to help your child call home (Ukraine)?
       2009 Summer Visit Schedule  
Our 2009 summer visit calendar is filling in, please keep checking back each week for updates. If you have any questions please contact us info@ccpkids.org    
Date Event Notes
June 17, 8:34pm Children Arrive !! The children arrive on Thursday, June 18th at 8:41PM - Delta Airlines Flight # 0161 (Domestic Terminal 1, Gate 48). Please check your emails often on the days leading up to arrival. That is how we will alert you of any last minute airline changes or problems. We will meet at SFO in the Arrivals area of the Domestic terminal, please look for the CCP sign and balloons in the main hall waiting area. If you can, please park in Domestic garage “B” and remember to were your CCP shirt!.
Please try to be there 1 hour prior to arrival (7:40PM). Please check in with Tatiana Saniuk (or Rosey Erickson) upon arrival and before you leave.
June 20,
11am-1pm
Welcome Picnic Mandatory event for ALL CCP FAMILIES !! The welcome potluck picnic will be held two days after the children arrive on Saturday at 11am in McNear Park, Petaluma. This is a time where all families get to socialize, and visiting children get to fill shopping bags with gently used clothing. (If you have any to donate, please bring them !!) This is also a terrific opportunity to make use of the interpreters and learn about your visitor !!
July 12,
1-4pm
Doubletree Swim Party Double Tree Hotel, Rohnert Park. This is the third year they have invited our group to swim at their hotel for the afternoon. Please eat lunch BEFORE you arrive and limit any snacks and drinks you bring to the pool area (No glass containers, please). Double tree will provide their towels.
July 14,
12-2pm
Birkenstock Picnic Every year Birkenstock USA generously provides a picnic lunch for all our CCP families and some sort of "goodie bag" for our visiting kids. This is truly a great opportunity. Details will follow in your host family packet.
July 15,
11am
Six Flags, Discovery Animal Kingdom Trip A day of fun at Six Flags. Bechtel is unwilling to sponser this event this year, luckily Six Flags was willing to give us a significant discount. If you cannot attend, we STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to find another host family who is willing to take your host child... this is something we'd hate for them to miss out on.
August 1,
6:30am
Children Depart The children depart on Saturday, August 1st at 6:30AM. There flight (Delta Flight # 72) back home stops in New York so they will be departing from the United domestic Terminal #1. Please check your emails often on the days leading up to arrival, this is how we will alert you of any last minute airline changes or problems. You must be there 2 hours prior to departure (4:30AM). Upon arrival at the airport please check in with CCP Board Member, Tatiana Saniuk at the airport when you arrive.
     

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Need to help your child call home (Ukraine)?  
Step 1 Dial the US Exit Code: 011
Step 2 Dial the country code to Ukraine: 380
Step 3 Dial the Area Code in the Ukraine where your child lives
Cherkasy 47 Kirovohrad 52 Sevastopol 69
Chernihiv 46 Kiev 44 Simferopol 65
Chernivtsi 37 Luhansk 64 Sumy 54
Dnipropetrovsk 56 Lutsk 33 Ternopil 35
Donetsk 62 Lviv 32 Uzhgorod 31
Ivano-Frankivsk 34 Nikolaev 51 Vinnytsya 43
Kharkiv 57 Odessa 48 Zaporizhzhya 61
Kherson 55 Poltava 53 Zhytomyr 41
Khmelnytsky 38 Rivne 36    
Step 4 Dial your child's home number (usually 7 digits): 1234567
For example, if your child lives in Kiev and has a number of 1234567, you would dial: 011 380 44 1234567