Success stories

Vershinin Zhenya, 2 years old

Diagnosis: children’s cerebral palsy. Zhenya has a good prospective, he has all the chances to rehabilitate. He needs to pass three courses of treatment in Dr. Skvorchov’s Clinic. The cost of one course is $1,585.

Malashenkov Daniil, 3

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy. Danys freedom of movement is strongly affected, but his intellectual abilities are good. To give him a chance to walk on his own, he needs rehabilitation treatment. We have paid two courses of treatment for the total amount of 3 290 USD.

Lina Zavyalova, 4 years old

Diagnosis: congenital cardiac malformation. Urgent requirements: $6,650 for an endovascular operation in the Tomsk Heart Surgery Center. Funds raised to date: $6,750.

Zhdankova Sofia, 4 years old

Sofia suffers from cerebral palsy. She needs medical treatment at the St. Petersburg Brain Institute, which will cost $4,075. Medical treatment was paid. At February 2007 we paid the second course of treatment and aeroplane tickets, which costed $5,384.

Goncharova Sasha, 4

Sasha (Alexandra) was a premature baby, born after 6 months of pregnancy. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Ever since the day she was born, her parents have been fighting for her life and health. The doctors are giving good prognoses for the future, and recommend to continue with the rehabilitation treatment.

Grigorieva Natasha, 4 years old

Clinical diagnosis: patent arterial duct (ductus arteriosus).Urgently needed: money to pay for medical treatment at the Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases at the German Heart Center in Munich. Funds raised to date: 15,000 euros for the operation.

Rita Fidirko, 4 years old

Little Rita suffers from cerebral palsy and tetraparesis, she needs a course of treatment. We paid the bill of $5,805. The girl is responding well to treatment, and if it is not interrupted Rita will be able to walk and to look after herself, doctors say.

Sivakova Yulia, 5

Julia has cerebral palsy and needs a course of treatment in Professor V. I. Kozyavkin's medical centre. She wants to run and play with her brother Oleg, but she can not walk on her own. Please help us collect 2 632 USD for her rehabilitation. We have already collected 62 USD.

Ivanov Dima, 5

Dima suffers from cerebral palsy. His family needs our help to pay for a course of dolphin-therapy, which costs 15 000 Roubles. The course is scheduled for March 1st. We have collected the necessary amount.

Anton Ruzhitsky, 5

Diagnosed with cerebral palcy, resulting from complications after premature birth. The boy is very intelligent, smart, his intellectual abilities are fully retained. After a course of treatment at childrens' rehabilitation centre at Evpatory, there has been a positive development. The treatment needs to be continued.

Kim Nastya, 7 years old

Nastya is starting school this year, but she is facing a bigger challenge than her peers. The girl was born with a right palm pathology. To have the surgery done in Moscow, the Kim family have to raise $1,540. With a monthly income of $35 the sum looks enormous. The surgery and tickets to Moscow was paid, thank you! November 28, 2006 Nastya returned home after surgery and treatment.

Sasha Denisenko, 7 years old

Diagnosis: leucosis.Urgently needed: money to buy Cardioxan. Aid rendered immediately: the required medicine purchased; funds to buy clothes raised; services of a nurse partially paid for.The total amount spent is $2,350.

Kosolapov Valera, 13 years old

Diagnosis: Growth Hormone Deficiency (Pituitary dwarfism). Valera’s grandmother begs money for her grandson’s treatment in the Petersburg underground. The boy’s life costs $135 per day; a medicine “Norditropin”, the analogue of a human hormone of growth has to be given until sixteen years. The cost of annual course of treatment is $49,425. Today it has been collected $1,180. Money collection is temporarily stoped.

Zhdanova Marina,13

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy. Marina needs a rehabilitation course and casting treatment, which is offered at Childrens Clinical Rehabilitation Centre at Evpatory. The cost of treatment amounts to 143 653 Roubles. The amount has been collected.

Mironova Anna, 15 years old

Multicystic kidneys, chronic kidney failure in terminal stage, critical holdback of growth. After kidney transplantation needs to take ATG — Fresenius to prevent rejecting the donor’s tissues and help the child grow. The necessary dose is 15 100-mg bottles, all together worth 199,485 rubles. Medication was financed by AIF charity foundation.

Krasnobayev Yuri, 15 years old

Diagnosis: mucoviscidosis. To ease his breathing and the assimilation of medicine, he needs a PARI Boy Turbo N inhaler, which costs approximately $270. The inhaler was paid, thank you!

Atso Chichich, 16 years old

Diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. Long-term treatment with Betapheron required. A pack of Betapheron costs 1,600 Euros, 10 packs needed. Also required three plasmapheresis procedures, $900. Medication and procedures was paid.

Artemy Simonov, 17 years old

Diagnosis: 4th degree S-shaped scoliosis. Urgent requirements: for the operation at the Novosibirsk Research Institute for Traumatology and Orthopedics. Funds raised to date: $3,713

Pavel Fesenko, 20 years old

In January of this year, Pavel was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the pelvic bones. To continue the course of poly-chemotherapy the young man needs 8 ampoules of Neupogen. To help Pavel we must raise $2,000. Required funds was gathered, medication was paid. Thank you!

Litvinova Svetlana, 22 years old

Diagnosis: bone marrow disease as a result of trauma. Sveta needs to pass three rehabilitation courses in the center “OrtoS” to start walking again, the cost of such treatment is $8,095. Required funds was gathered.

Alem Assefa, 24 years old

Alem Assefa was beaten up by unknown attackers on the Moscow metro 18 months ago. Police suspected racial motives in the beating. He suffered severe head injuries, and since then doctors have been trying to bring him back to normal life. The outlook is positive, but the course of treatment at a specialized hospital costs 3,000 dollars a month.

Medical Center in Federal Penal Service Prison Colony No.1

Urgent requirements: medicines

Immediate assistance rendered: medicines worth $3,200