I was born in France and live in Austria since 1992. I studied Computer sciences and got an engineer diploma. I practiced my knowledge during 20 year. I am happy married to Wolfgang and meanwhile mother of five adopted children, The adoption of my son Igor took almost a year and I spent much time in the orphanage supporting voluntarily the day work of the nurses. After this very emotional experience, I decided to help children in need.

The religion of our family is respect, love, and share.... We all come from different cultures (France, Austria, Russia, Cambodia, Kosovo, Afganistan) and religions. We respect each of us, we love us and are together very happy. It is so easy to live together.

In 2006, I founded together with dedicated people and friends my charity "kleine herzen” (little hearts) with the mission to support orphans and poor families from Russia and the Ukraine. (www.kleineherzen.ngo, www.littlehearts.ngo)

Who am I? A simple woman who experiences every day that giving is the key of happiness. I dedicate my life in helping forgotten children in Russia and the Ukraine. The bright eyes of a child in an orphanage, encouraged by a smile or surprised with a small gift from someone to show they cared, opened a new world to me. I started to see not only with my eyes but with my heart.

Giving is opening ones heart to the poorest of the poor: to children, children that are forgotten from our society, children who grow without love of a family, in state institutions. To take care of a child in need means not only to merely give some money to relieve one’s own conscience. It is giving to a needy little heart in a hopeless situation, love, security and hope in his life. It is the beginning of a deep feeling of human warmth, it is a little more balance in a less and less balanced world.

Mother Teresa said “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty” I experiences it each time I am in Ukraine and Russia.”