From June 13 to 19, 2010 the charitable foundation Podari Zhyzn and the football club Lokomotiv will organize the First Winners’ Games for Children in Moscow. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT>>>>>
The foundation Zaporuka organizes the Ukrainian team that will take part in the Games. We invite everybody who is willing to register: by March 20 you have to send us the extracts of the medical records attested by the medical institution where you had been treated and to provide your doctor’s permission to participate in the event. A child must be accompanied by an adult. The participants of the Games must be between 7 and 16 years of age. Send you documents to the e-mail: oksana@zaporuka.com.ua
ATTENTION! The foundation ZAPORUKA is looking for partners to organize a trip to Moscow. Within this project it is planned to prepare two events – a send-off party and a welcoming party. We need you help in: paying for the tickets (Kyiv – Moscow, Moscow – Kiev) buying materials for the tram (sport kits, flags) buying gifts for children (aged between 7-16 years of age)
For more detailed information, please, refer: +38 (044)361 56 97 – Zaporuka office +38 (095)167-41-69 +38 (095)167-41-69 – Oksana; +38 (050) 410-44-84 +38 (050) 410-44-84 – Yana
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Clean water for children from IDS Group
The company IDS Group continues to support the Center for children affected by cancer Smile. The managers of the company has decided to provide our kids with clean drinking water.
It’s not a secret that water is the second most important substance for our body functioning after oxygen. Unfortunately, we cannot choose air to breathe but we have an opportunity to choose water to drink.
Thus, our children got such an opportunity: every month the Center is provided with 200 liters of the mineral water Morshynska and Myrgorodska, and the natural table water Aqua Life for preparing food.
We espress our sincere gratitude for the managers of the IDS Group for taking care of our kids! Be healthy!
For the sake of our children’s future
Love is the best feeling! When you are in love you, are eager to share your feelings with everyone. Probably, that’s why Saint Valentine’s Day gradually became Day of People who are in Love with Life – that’s the name we gave to the Childhood Cancer Day.
On February 13 our foundation held the event For the Sake of our Children’s Future in the Commercial Centre Magelan. The program included entertainment with a clown, the Jazz Club music accompaniment and the winner of international children singing contests Kateryna Kovalchuk. Everybody could get a personal Saint Valentine’s Day congratulations in a verse form or our Sorceress Zlata’s forecast for 2010. All the kids that came to the Magelan with their parents were happy to participate in the event organized by ZAPORUKA with its contests, games, songs, dances and, of course, presents.
Besides, we organized a souvenir fair during the event: we were selling post cards designed by the kids, magnets with Zaporuka symbol, balloons in the form of a heart given to us by the company SHAR-master and chocolate hearts prepared for us by the confectioner’s shop Repryza. All the money raised we used for redecorations of the recreation room for children at the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery.
Parents whose children had been treated at the National Institute of Cancer also participated in the event. More than 20 parents helped us to distribute the invitations to participate in our event among the Magelan visitors. Some parents taught the children to make origami. It’s so pleasant that the people to whom we helped in the past now are willing to help us.
We would like to thank everybody who helped us n our event, that is: the direction of the commercial centre Magelan and the hypermarket Kraina, the direction and the employees of confectioner’s shop Repryza, the company Jazz Club (the official representative of YAMAHA in Ukraine), the company SHAR-master.
Parent Meeting
Again we invited to the Center Smile the people who got acquainted with each other in a tragic moment of their life and who struggled together for their children’s health and even life; at that time Zaporuka employees were trying to help them. The pain that those people had to face influenced their lives not in a positive way, that’s why every 2-3 months the foundation Zaporuka organizes parents’ meetings where they can communicate, support and help each other and those parents who stay at the hospital at the moment.
The current meeting took place at the commercial centre MAGELAN the day before the International Childhood Cancer Day, that’s why we invited the parents to participate in our event “In Love with Life”. After the event we went back to the Center Smile where the parents enjoyed a delicious meal and a relaxation program prepared by the Italian theatre director Giorgio. It was very pleasant to see the parents’ happy faces and to hear their comments about the meeting.
“I’m very grateful to everybody who gathered us together, supported us, calmed us down and made us feel good. I wish you every success!” – Natalia Kyrychuk
“Kindred spirits got together at the hospitable house. Everything we did together gave us only positive emotions. We had a good rest, physically and morally. It would be good to have more such meetings that gave us positive emotions and unite us. We would like to meet more and more times. We would like to thank Zaporuka employees for their precious work. And we would like to thank Giorgio and Giampiero for giving childish emotions while playing with us” – Demyanchuk O.M., Mochulska L.V., Voronaya S.V., Motevosyan T.V., Buryak O.N., Volovnyk S.V.
Separately we would like to thank the restaurant “Pizzeria Celentano” and Yulia Volodymyrivna in person for helping in preparing the parents’ meetings.
Airlines of Ukraine is Our Winged Benefactor
Everybody has a Guarding Angel assigned to him/her when they are born. This Angel guides and protects. There is a belief: when a person does good, the Guardian Angel gives him or her the wings. And in such a case their good deeds will triplicate.
Our foundation got acquainted with its Winged Benefactor. Really winged! Having got to know about the Center for children affected by cancer Smile, the International Airlines of Ukraine decided to help. They promised to maintain the Center in 2010 paying for heating, electricity, gas, water and other services necessary for its functioning. Now the children and their families’ comfort is guaranteed.
We are very grateful to the International Airlines of Ukraine for taking care of us!
Creative Activities by VAB Bank
It’s always pleasant to receive gifts. It is even more pleasant to watch the kids opening their gifts with genuine interest. The VAB Bank, our new friend, bought creative activities sets for the children who are treated at the Institute of Cancer. Under the guidance of the ZAPORUKA teacher the children started making gypsum souvenirs – piggy banks, pictures and magnets. Volunteers helped them in the most complicated parts – to knead gypsum and fill it in forms. Further the girls and boys continued making souvenirs and coloring them on their own. The time flew very fast in the company of good friends. All of us had great fun together!
We thank the VAB Bank for consideration and care of our children!
ZAPORUKA ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Dear friends,
2009 is coming to an end. In spite of the economical crisis and other difficulties, this year turned out to be very fruitful for Zaporuka. We understood that there are no such economical problems that prevent people from helping those who are in need.
Thank to the common efforts in 2009 we have opened the Center for children affected by cancer “Smile”. There seven families with ill children live on a regular basis and the patients of the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer come to spend their free time every day.
We have started a new project “Let’s Anticipate the Trouble”, the main aim of which is to raise the oncological awareness both among paediatricians and among parents.
Yesterday Zaporuka got a telephone call: “It’s Art Garden calling. We will bring you tomorrow an outdoor playground for your Center”. We were very happy to hear it because with swings slides and climbers our kids would have great fun. And we mean not only those children who live in the Center with their families but also those who come there almost every day from the Institute of Cancer.
When all the kids were sleeping, Sofia decided to be the first who would enjoy a new playground. Some of Zaporuka employees remembered their childhood and joined her.
The children, the parents and all the Zaporuka employees express their sincere gratitude to ART GARDEN for the gift!
15.12.2009
Italian Restaurant Walter's Creates Holiday Fun for Children
Probably, people’s most pleasant childhood memories are connected with winter holidays. Christmas-tree decorations, hand made snowflakes, frosted windows, Saint Nicholas and Father Frost’s greetings, gifts in multi-colored boxes… Kids are waiting for all these things during the whole year. Still the most important thing for them is a holiday itself!
The children who have to stay at the hospital for months dream to go home at least during their favorite holidays. Unfortunately, it is impossible for the majority of them, they have to stay under the doctors’ supervision. However, Zaporuka created a Center where the children can feel almost at home.
Smelled like the holidays at our Center! The children were decorating a New Year tree, their parents and Zaporuka employees helped them with pleasure. The Center covered with garlands turned into a fairy tale!
We express our gratitude to the owners of the restaurant Walter’s for beautiful decorations!
14.12.2009
Volunteers continue to help!
Recently the Zaporuka employees have got a telephone call about the parcel that had arrived from Italy. It was Chiara who had sent the so necessary medical consumables goods for the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer: syringes, plasters, masks and other things.
It is so pleasant that the volunteers who came to our kids some time ago don’t forget about them, worry about them and continue to help!
Children and parents are very grateful for such a support!
01.12.2009
FC Dinamo (Kiev) and FC Inter (Milan) joined the Ukrainian National Charitable Fund Zaporuka and help children affected by cancer!
The Ukrainian charitable fund Zaporuka referred to the football club Dinamo with the request to support its activities – and the club expressed its willingness to help immediately! In particular, we agreed that agreed that during the match broadcast on TV an electronic moving text about Zaporuka would be shown and the speaker would announce it for the audience at the stadium.
Of course, at first we planed a more large scale event – that the children affected by cancer would accompany the footballers while they entered the field. However, the epidemic of influenza made this initiative impossible to accomplish in order not to expose children to danger.
We thank FC Dinamo for understanding and willingness to cooperate!
Inter helps children!
On November, 3 while Inter’s players and coaches left the airport heading for Opera Hotel, Zaporuka and Soleterre employees were waiting patiently for the club managers to receive the gifts prepared by the guests from Milan in advance.
When the footballers went away, big trunks full of food for the team, sport kits and boots and, finally, things for us appeared in the waiting hall. I have to say that Inter didn’t save on gifts – they brought three big boxes full of sport kits and gadgets with the club’s symbols: 300 sport kits for children and teenagers, soft toys, pencil cases, note books, badges etc. Meeting with children and gift giving were planned for the next day.
However, the next day the head coach Jose Mourinho didn’t let his players to go anywhere because of the important match with Dinamo. Still, Inter’s delegation consisting of the Golden Ball winner Luis Figo (after finishing his career he became Inter’s official representative in different events and actions), a sister of Inter’s President and at the same time a famous actress Bedi Moratti and Inter’s chief executive Ernesto Paolillo went to the Paediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery and to the first Ukrainian Center for children zffected by cancer and their parents.
Looking forward to the guests’ to come, the children prepared a special program for them: their own interpretation of the fairy tale “Kolobok”, gifts made by their own hands and, of course, special congratulations for Luis Figo who would celebrate his 37th birthday on the next day. The guests from Milan, in their turn, gave the children the above mentioned gifts, made pictures with them and gave autographs! Sometimes Signora Moratti couldn’t hold back a tear looking into the children’s faces…
Recently, the SMS campaign “Don’t close your eyes to cancer” has started in Italy aimed at supporting the first Ukrainian Center for children affected by cancer who undergo treatment at the National Institute of Cancer.
We express our sincere gratitude to FC Inter for their willingness to help!
Gifts from the Zhinky Batkivshyny (the Women of Motherland)
Yesterday the head of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Shevchenko District Valentyna Sergiivna Dzyganska with her colleagues came to our CENTER. Valentyna Sergiivna as the head of the Ukrainian public organization Zhinky Batkivshyny was present at the official inauguration of the Family House for children ill with cancer and got imbued with the problems of our House. When she found out that we gave our microwave oven to the Institute of Cancer and the parents who lived at the Family House couldn’t warm up their food, she promised to help us. And one day she came to the House with the gifts: a microwave oven and two children’s beds. Valentyna Sergiivna promised to support our House in the future and cooperate with the fund Zaporuka to help children ill with cancer.
The Zaporuka employees, the parents and the children are very grateful to you, dear Valentyna Sergiivna, for your aid!
21/10/2009
Our Aid to the Children Ill with Cancer
During the 3rd trimester to help the patients of the pediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer and the Pediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery the charitable fund Zaporuka spent 293 240 grn. within the frameworks of the project “Smile in the Ward”.
For the Pediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery we purchased the necessary equipment for the intensive care wards (artificial respiration apparatuses with compressors, a monitor of vital functions, five aspirators, pulse oximeter and intensive care block for newbors) for the total sum 172 600 grn. Besides, the Paediatric Clinic was provided with the medical consumables goods, the total sum of which is 27 500 grn.
For the patients of the Institute of Cancer we purchased the medical consumables goods for the sum of 54 140 grn. Also we provided the patients with the medicines, the total sum of which is 39 000 grn.
The Family House/Rehabilitation Centre for Children Ill with Cancer Officially Inaugurated on October 3, 2009
In a small village, not far from the National Institute of Cancer, the first rehabilitation center in Ukraine for the families whose children are ill with cancer was officially inaugurated. It was modeled following the best examples of the European rehabilitation centers.
The atmosphere of the inauguration day was very warm. It happened not only due to the good weather but also due to the people who gathered together on weekend to congratulate children, their parents and two foundations – Zaporuka and Soleterre – which, in spite of all the difficulties and obstacles, managed to open the Family House.
The children prepared the performance for the guests TEREMOK providing analogy with their own life: how they came to Kiev for treatment and requested a place at the dormitory of the Institute of Cancer but there was no room for them because the dormitory was overcrowded, so they built a new house to live in which they called the “House of Wonders”. The guests were watching the children’s performance trying to hold back tears. Our little actors were a bit agitated but happy to play their roles. Even those kids who couldn’t walk took part in the performance: Karina was crawling like a fox and 7-year old Sasha played a part of the main character – Bear sitting on his mother’s knees. The children were treated with sweets and fruit and the café Repryza that prepared a delicious cake for the occasion.
All the employees of our foundation, the mothers and the children for whom the Rehabilitation Centre was opened express their sincere gratitude to everybody who helped to make our House comfortable!
Natalia Onipko, the president of the charitable fund Zaporuka:
“During the first two months of activities at the Centre, we understood how indispensable such an institution was! Every day we get telephone calls from parents with the request to come to the House: some of them don’t have a place to live during their child’s examinations and they have to go to the waiting hall at the railway station; some don’t have a room to stay during the radiotherapy treatment that lasts two weeks at the hospital. Besides, we call our center a Family House because our goal is to unite families who are separated for a long time since cancer treatment is quite long. For example, the family Svystun that consists of 5 persons (a mother, a father, a 2 month old brotherand a grandmother) has been living in the House for 2 weeks – all of them came to support Karina who would have a very serious operation. We hope that the relatives’ support and a favourable psychological atmosphere will influence her recovery in a positive way.
We are happy to hear the children saying to their mothers that they feel at the House like at home because we have created all the conditions for it – separate cozy rooms for each family, two spacious recreation rooms, where little kids and teenagers can find games and activities to their liking, a dining room with a fire place where families can gather together and have dinner and an open terrace is warmed by the sun even in October”.
BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN THE CENTRE “HOUSE OF WONDERS”
On the third Friday of every month we organize parties in the House for the children who celebrate their birthday during the given month.
On September 25 we had such a party for the first time – we celebrated Oleksandr Barabosha’s 17th birthday. All the children who could leave the hospital for several hours got together in the magic terrace of the House where they enjoyed the entertainment program prepared for them by the clown Inna. During a warm and sunny day the Zaporuka employees set the table with sweets and fruit, and the pizzeria Celentano prepared a delicious dinner for the children!
Two hours in the fresh air with movement games and laughs and the most interesting activity – coloring faces using special paints – distracted the children from pain and sadness and brought them pleasant emotions. There is no more happiness in the world than to see happy and smiling faces of the children, especially taking into consideration the fact that they are deprived of “a child’s life”!
To organize the next party on October 23 we need help of those people who are ready tobring happy smiles to our children’s faces:
- entertainment program (with clowns or other fairy tales characters)
- sweets and fruit
- festive decorations (balloons, table and paper decoration)
- birthday gifts
- small gifts to the children – guests of the party
Usually 10-15 children and their parents take part in such parties.
Everything began on a sunny morning, on September 19. People came for the parent meeting full of enthusiasm to help those who were treated at the Institute of Cancer. It was the first meeting in the newly opened Family House. So, everybody got together. Let’s go!
Everyone in the Family House was involved in the preparations. The Zaporuka employees worked diligently – they laid a carpet for them and prepared fanfares. On coming all the guests looked round the House and the yard.Probably, it was because twenty good farmers gathered together – and a good farmer knows that autumn is the time of gathering crops – that we decided to organize a working day. Together we discovered a new trend in sport and psychology – agrofitness in complex with work therapy. The exercises were done in a proper way under the supervision of our coach Roman Shandyba. He watched over very carefully the distribution of workload.
When time to have a snack came, the floor was given to the best chef in Ukraine Ernest Ismailov with his assistant Svitlana Vorona. The most unruly workers were sent to prepare shashlik.
Everybody knew that our chef was very demanding. In addition to obligatory food tasting he was preparing the younger generation who would continue his work. So the young chefs amazed their teacher with new cookery inventions.
And, of course, food tasting…
And later we relaxed a bit…
Our meeting came to an end.
The show was prepared by:
Production director: Damiano Rizzi
Director: Natalia Onipko
Casting director: Oksana Atamanuk
Director of photography: Yana Savchuk
Equipment for Intensive Care Wards in Neurosurgery
The Zaporuka employees visit regularly the Pediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery and see the problem with which the doctors face there. One of such problems is the lack of medical equipment. That’s why sometimes the doctors have to move the artificial lung ventilation apparatus from the surgery room to the intensive care ward and back for them to be used by all the patients. Sometimes it happens that the doctors have to postpone an operation because a necessary device isused in the intensive care ward and it is impossible to operate without it!
We couldn’t be indifferent in such a situation and decided to help. Thanks to the financial support of the Italian association Ungestoperloro we purchased the following equipment for the intensive care wards for the total sum of 17 000 euro: the artificial lung ventilation apparatus with the compressor, the monitor of vital functions, five aspirators, pulse oximeter and intensive care unit for newborns.
The Project “Hosting and Rehabilitation House” Launched
On the 1st of August the Hosting and Rehabilitation House for children ill with cancer and their families has been launched according to the plan.
At first some information about the House. The House is located in a very quiet residential area 15 minutes drive by bus (marshrutka 255) from the National Institute of Cancer. There are 4 rooms in the house where the families may live, several common rooms (a kitchen, a living room, a rehabilitation room, a recreation room), two bathrooms and Soleterre and Zaporuka office.Besides, near the house there is a vegetable garden, a garden with a swimming pool and a covered space for cooking and having meals in the open air.
Children who are allowed to leave the hospital come to the House every day (except weekends). Here the children play with the educator in the fresh air, bathe in a small swimming pool, watch TV or just have good time in a calm environment. The parents who accompany the children have an opportunity to take shower or wash their stuff in the washing machine. Besides, the first families were hosted at the House.
For further information about the project, please, look here.
We thank everyone who helped us in providing the House with necessary things:
BIOL LLC Producer of aluminum cookware and utensils with non-stick coating. The official site of the company: www.biol.com.ua
VELAM Orthopedic mattresses and accessories for healthy sleep. www.velam.com.ua
The volunteers of the Italian humanitarian association Soleterre Giovanni Rossi and Gigi Marangon went on bikes from Italy to Ukraine in the context of the project “Smile on the Wheels”. The goal of this motor-raid was raising money in order to help the Ukrainian children ill with cancer.
The bikers came to Kiev in the evening on July 17.Immediately during the next day they went on excursion to the thematic arboretum “Mamayeva Sloboda” in which nature, architecture and traditions of Dnieper Ukraine were presented.
The Italian guests got an opportunity to get acquainted with living history visiting a traditional Cossacks’ settlement, the so called “Sloboda”, Cossack chiefs’ houses, a blacksmith’s shop, a pottery, an apiary, a water mill and many other interesting objects.
However, the most unforgettable was the visit to the church of the Saint Protecting Veil of the Mother of God: the priest blessed all the children and gave them crosses, incenses and icons.
We thank the direction of the “Mamayeva Sloboda” for an opportunity to go to the excursion free of charge!
On the second day it was planned to visit the Paediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery. While little patients were enjoying the performance prepared for them by the clowns, the Italian volunteers were looking around the hospital sharing their ideas how it could be improved in the future and assuring that they were ready to help in it. After the performance Gianni and Gigi took part in Nina’s activities: they were playing and communicating with the children. Later they invited the kids to ride their big bikes. The children were very happy!
For the third day the volunteers prepared an entertainment program for the patients of the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer. Having disguised themselves in clowns’ costumes they were making the children laugh, treating them with sweets and doing creative activities with them – drawing and clay modeling. Then the children wanted to ride the bikes and get adrenalin from such riding – unforgettable impressions are guaranteed! Finally, the children were invited to a traditional Italian dinner with pizzas. Everybody had fun!
We express our sincere gratitude to the Italian volunteers!
Our Italian Friends Take Care about the Ukrainian Children
Once at the office we received a telephone call from Italy.Our friends-volunteers were calling. In course of a long conversation it was clearly seen that in spite of the distance they were genuinely interested in our patients’ problems and took care about them.
Thevolunteersraised anecessary sum ofmoney, purchasedandsent 60 needles for biopsy of different types forthechildrenoftheNationalInstituteofCancer. It is really a significant aid and not only because the price of such a gift is more then 500 euro but also because it is impossible to buy such needles in Ukraine!
We thank the volunteersfor their help!
Microscope for the Institute of Cancer
One more piece of pleasant news! Together with other sponsors our fund purchased a modern complex of equipment (a microscope with all the accessories) necessary for genetic diagnostics of malignant tumors by the FISH method. Our contribution makes up 180 651 grn.
People who don’t have medical education usually think that only doctors can influence the process of recovery. However, a successful treatment depends to a great extent on a laboratory department because a correct diagnosis means more than 50% of success in treatment.
This equipment was essential for the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer to make correct diagnoses using methods of genetic diagnostics and choose a correct therapy in order to treat children ill with cancer in accordance with modern protocols.
We hope that this new modern microscope will help many children and will improve the doctors’ work conditions!
Renovated the Psychologists’ Room
It is a staff psychologist’s room at the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer.
Of course, it is hard to work in such conditions not only for a professional psychologist but also for the children and parents to share their emotions. Besides, there is no enough room to hold group art-therapy sessions which are very important for the children. It is because we decided to renovate this room.
Now the room is really so cozy as if at home! We changed a carpet on the floor, windows and a door, installed new plumbing equipment and electric devices, painted the walls warm colors! New beautiful furniture supplement the interior, they are a new big bookcase, a writing table, a table for group work with the children, a sofa, chairs. To create good work conditions at the psychologist’s office we spent 23 191, 81 grn.
Now children, parents and doctors can work here with the psychologist, or have a rest taking a cup of tea or coffee with which you will be treated!
And we don’t stop at this point!
Beds for Neurosurgery
Thanks to the sponsor support of the Ama Onlus and Plaza Onlus from Italy the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” managed to purchase for the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery 6 beds Junior for children and teenagers, 10 beds for newborn babies and bed linen, the total cost of which is 46 746 grn.
Thesebedswerepurchasedtosubstituteoldbatteredones.New beds meet all the standards and are more functional! We hope that they will make the children’s stay at the hospital much more comfortable!
WeexpressoursinceregratitudetoAma Onlus and Plaza Onlus on the behalf of our little patients!
Art-Therapy for Children Ill with Cancer
Nowadays one of the most important aspects of helping the families whose children are ill with cancer is a psychological adaptation of the children and their parents in the conditions of the hospital and after the discharge from it. Unfortunately, nowadays in Ukraine there are no enough qualified psychologists in the sphere of oncology. In the National Institute of Cancer the unique in Ukraine social-psychological service helping the families with the children ill with cancer was created. It was organized by the charitable fund “Zaporuka” in collaboration with the Italian association “Soleterre”. The psychologists worked out the program of psycho-social adaptation of the children ill with cancer, teenagers and their families which was tested in the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer with the active participation of the direction of the Institute and its medical staff. Today the doctors are more and more interested in collaboration with the psychologists understanding the impact of the emotional and psychological state of the children and their parents on the process of the successful treatment and recovery.
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The Ukrainian Candle Action “There is Hope!”
On the occasion of the International Childhood Cancer Day the action “I have hope” took place on the Maydan Nezalezhnosti. The candle action was organized to draw attention of the public to the problem of childhood cancer.
Every year inUkraine appear one thousand morechildren ill with cancer.
At4 p.m. on the central square of the city the participants of the action composed out of candles the phrase “There is hope!” At 5 p.m. the candles were lit. They were burning in seven cities of Ukraine, that is, in Lviv, Mykolaiv, Simferopol, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhya.
During two hours the activists were distributing among passers-by the thematic flyers.
Inauguration of the Photo Exhibition
On Sunday, February the 15th, at 4.00 pm, at the Ukrainian House, on the occasion of the VII International Childhood Cancer Day, the Italian association Soleterre ONLUS, with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Kiev and the Italy-Ukraine Association of Entrepreneurs inaugurated the photo exhibition “Vodka against Cancer”.
The exhibition that will be open from February 16 to 22 collects 40 pictures taken by the Italian photographer Ugo Panella in the two oncology paediatric departments where Soleterre implements its humanitarian project. The Italian Ambassador is expected to visit the inauguration of the exhibition.
At the inauguration there were representatives of the association Soleterre in person of the President Damiano Rizzi and the Country Coordinator Marco Zecchinato, the representatives of the Italian Embassy in Kiev including His ExcellencyAmbassador of Italy to Ukraine PietroGiovanniDonnicci, the representatives of the Spanish Embassy in Kiev, the Italy-Ukraine Association of Entrepreneurs etc. The paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer and the Paediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery were represented by the chief doctor of the department Klymnuk G.I. and the director of the Clinic Orlov Y.O. correspondently.
During the inauguration the director of the Paediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery professor Orlov expressed his gratitude to Soleterre and the whole Italian nation for the help they give to the Ukrainian children, for the hope they give to the children.
TheItalianAmbassadorPietroGiovanniDonniccispokeabouthisunforgettableimpressionsafterhavingcommunicatedwiththechildrenwhoundergotreatment in the Institute of Cancer and with the doctors who treat them.
In course of the exhibition charity money were collected. They will be used to help the children ill with cancer.
Thanks to everybody who visited the inauguration of the exhibition! Thanks to everybody who is not indifferent to children’s fates!
InternationalChildhoodCancerDay
OnFebruary 13, beforetheInternationalChildhoodCancerDaywhichismarkedonFebruary 15, inthecontextoftheUkrainianaction “Ihavehope” theinaugurationoftheexhibitioncollecting drawings made by the patients of paediatric oncohematological departments took place in the hall of the “Young Theatre”.
Ahospital becomes a second home for ill children. In the walls of a public institution they have to fight for their lives every minute, suffer from terrible pain, feel sorry and understand their parents and appreciate every minute of recovery. These children grow up quickly and understand very quickly that healthy life is the most precious gift of fate. All these things are clearly seen in their drawings.
YanaSavchuk, therepresentativeoftheUkrainianCharitableFund “Zaporuka”, spokeabouttheInternationalChildhoodCancerDayduringthepress-conferencededicatedtothe action “There is hope”. In the world this date is marked from 2003, in Ukraine this date is commemorated by various charitable and volunteer organizations during the last years. Yana Savchuk emphasized that the International Childhood Cancer Day is not a day of desperation, it is a day of victory over this terrible disease!
Every year in Ukraine there are one thousand new cases of childhood cancer. The majority of the children have three or four stage cancer when the chances to survive are minimal and the treatment last for years. Evident symptoms of the disease appear too late, so the parents have to pay attention to the smallest changes in their children’s state of health.
Natalia Derbenyova, the chiefof the paediatric department of the Kyiv oncological centre, said: “We don’t have any problem concerning examinations. If parents want their children to be examined they may come to us with or without an appointment card. It goes without saying that if cancer is diagnosed in the early stage, there are good chances for complete recovery”.
Onemorecomponentofthewidecampaignaimedatdrawingattentionofthepublictowardstheproblemofchildhoodcancerandthefactthatthisdiseasecanbecuredifitisdiagnosedintimeandtreatedinaproperway will be the photo exhibition “Vodka Against Cancer”.Explaining this quite strange name of the exhibition the representative of the association “Soleterre” Marco Zecchinato said that they met some children in Ukraine to whom before entering some medical institution the padiatricians prescribed them some compresses and in some cases the parents made vodka compresses. “That’s why with this name we wanted to draw attention of the public to the fact that it is better to refer to specialized medical centers”.
Marco Zecchinato also said that at the exhibition there would be 40 pictures made by Ugo Pannella in the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer and in the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery.The partners of Soleterre in organizing the exhibition were the Italian Embassy and the Italy-Ukraine Association of Entrepreneurs. His Excellency Italian Ambassador in Ukraine Pietro Giovanni Donnicci is expected to visit the inauguration.
On February 15 during the candle action we launched the information campaign of the project “Let’s Anticipate the Project” regarding the early diagnostics of cancer among children.
Children from 0 to 18 years of age may fall ill with cancer.
In case of timely diagnostics cancer is a curable disease.
Symptoms of cancer, especially at early stages of disease, are not clear. Children almost don’t have complaints. The parent must pay attention: all malignant tumors are characterized by the so called “tumor complex of symptoms”, these include:
- appearance of swelling or deformation in some part
of the body;
- recurring fever without any other signs of flu;
-fatigue, loss of appetite, vomiting;
-pain in bones;
- swollen abdomen;
- recurring abdominalpain;
- painless enlargement of one or two lymph nodes (double-
sided or one-sided);
- paleskinandmucous membranes;
-unexplained weight loss, excessive sweating;
- bleedingorexcessive bruising(not caused by injuries);
OnFebruary15, theInternationalChildhoodCancerDay, theUkrainiancandleaction “THERE IS HOPE” willtakeplaceattheMaydanNezalezhnosti.The main goal of the action is to draw attention of the public towards the problem of childhood cancer.
At 5 p.m. in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Simferopol,Mykolaiv, Lugansk, Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities of Ukraine the participants of the action will make a phrase “THERE IS HOPE” out of lit candles.
The International Childhood Cancer Day is a not a day of desperation, it is a day of victory over such a terrible disease as cancer. It is the day of victory for the children, their parents and relatives, for the doctors and everybody who cares about these patients.
In advance, on Friday, February 13, the inauguration of the exhibition collecting drawings made by the patients of paediatric oncohematological departments will take place in the hall of the “Young Theatre”. Every visitor will have an opportunity to see beautiful creations made by the childrenand their parents whose talents often develop incredibly in course of fighting against the disease.
OnFebruary13, 2009 we invite you to the address:“Young Theatre”, Kyiv, Prorizna Str., 17, 3rd floor
11.30 – inauguration of the exhibition collecting drawings made by the patients of paediatric oncohematological departments(“Young Theatre”, Kyiv, Prorizna Str., 17)
February 15, 2009
17.00 – theUkrainianCandleAction “THERE IS HOPE” (Kyiv, Maydan Nezalezhnosti)
Forfurtherinformationandfortheregistrationatthepress-conference, please, call the following telephone numbers8-050-410-44-84, 501-67-86to Yana Savchuk, yana@zaporuka.com.ua
Photo Exhibition on the Occasion of the Childhood Cancer Day
On the occasion of the VII International Childhood Cancer Day, the Italian association Soleterre ONLUS, with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Kiev and the Italy-Ukraine Association of Entrepreneurs will inaugurate the photo exhibition “Vodka against cancer”* on Sunday, February the 15th at 4.00 pm, at the Ukrainian House, Bul. Kreschatik, 2.
The exhibition collects 40 pictures taken by the Italian photographer Ugo Panella in the two oncology paediatric departments where Soleterre implements its humanitarian project aimed at helping ill children and their families. The Italian Ambassador is expected to visit the inaguration of the exhibition.
The event is part of a broader campaign on raising awareness about children cancer and the possibility to overcome the disease, if diagnosed in time and properly treated.
The exhibition will last till February 22nd.
* Soleterre ONLUS supports the Ukrainian National Plan on Paediatric Oncology to obtain correct and timely diagnosis for cancer among children. Raising awareness on cancer symptoms will prevent episodes in which pain was treated with the application of vodka compresses, rather than contacting a specialized oncology centre for a proper consultation.
For further information please contact Soleterre ONLUS, Kiev office telephone: (044) 501 67 86, 8-050-410-44-84,email: marco.zecchinato@soleterre.org
“Let’s Make Holiday for Children”
During New Year and Christmas holidays the Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” in partnership with the TM “Antoshka” organized the action “Let’s Make Holiday for Children”, in the context of which the charity boxes were put in the children’s supermarkets to collect money.
The money collected in course of the action was used to buy gifts for the little patients of the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer and the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery.
We express sincere gratitude to everyone who took part in money collecting and to the direction of the supermarkets “Antoshka” that helped us to carry out this action.
Our Aid
During the last trimester of 2008 in the context of the project “Smile in the Ward” with the financial support of the Italian association Soleterre the Fund “Zaporuka” purchased and gave to the patients of the paediatric department of the Institute of cancer and Neurosurgical Paediatric Clinic the following: foodstuffs (dried fruit, seeds, nuts, sour milk products laktium and narine), the cost of which is 10 436 grn; medical consumables, the cost of which is 61 362 grn, necessary medicines - 38 314 grn.
Besides, we helped in purchasing endoprosthesis for Sergiy Godovanuk, a patient of the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer, having paid for its production 7000 grn. Also we purchased the chair-wheel, the cost of which is 2 100 grn, for Olena Yathenko who underwent treatment in the Neurosurgical Paediatric Clinic.
Christmas from Sabrina Corabi
On December 27, 28 a Soleterre old friend – a well-known Italian actress Sabrina Corabi with her husband Mattia – came to Kiev. She decided to celebrate Christmas not in a family circle but together with the Ukrainian children who undergo treatment in the Institute of Cancer and Institute of Neurosurgery. Sabrina wanted these children to feel the joy of winter holidays in such a difficult period in their lives, that’s why she prepared not only gifts but also an interesting program – different contests, lotteries, games and watching cartoons, a true Italian meal with pizzas, a special performance from Santa Claus and visit to the cinema Magellan for the children and their parents. The children were very grateful to Sabrina and her husband Mattia for the sweets, toys, DVDs, a big TV-set for the department and the most important thing – for laughing, good mood and excellent time spent together.
The Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” and its beneficiaries express sincere gratitude to Sabrina and Mattia for their kind hearts!
St. Nicholas came to the Paediatric Department of the Institute of Cancer
He will come for sure! He will visit everybody!
He will leave any child’s heart alone with his/her dream. Because his name is St. Nicholas! DuringthenightSt. Nicholasvisitedallthehousesandputpresentsunderthechildren’spillows. He didn’t miss the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer where all the children liked him and were longing for his coming.
St. Nicholas prepared a great surprise for the children. When they were sleeping, he entered the wards and put the gifts under their pillows. Those children who heard the steps near their beds were very surprised to see their gift-giver, they had an opportunity to communicate with him and thank for the gifts.
19.12.2008
PAINTINGS for Windows
On Sunday, December 7 Olena Markaryan from the studio “Azur-Boutique” came to the dormitory of the Institute of Cancer. The artist offered our children to design paintings for the windows.
Olenabroughtwithherallthenecessarymaterialforsuchkindofwork– special paints, brushes, contours and sketches of the paintings.
The children were happy to create something new and unusual, so they started working eagerly. Everybody could choose the painting to his/her liking. At first the children had to make contours with the appropriate color, then to dry it with the hairdryer in order not to wait too long. Then they had to color the elements of the pictures. It was clearly seen that both the children and the parents who joined them liked that kind of work. Some of them created even two paintings. It was necessary to wait for one day before those paintings could be placed on a window or an aquarium or any other glass surface.
We wanted to take some paintings to the charitable sale at the festive fair “Generous St. Nicholas” but all the children preferred to keep their creations and place them somewhere at home, so we could only take pictures.
We would like to express our gratitude to the studio “Azur-Boutique” for the lessons conducted, particularly to Olena Markaryan and Olena Malik.
8.12.2008
Holiday Charity Bazaar, the Foreigners’ and Kievers Favourite Activity, was Held by International Women’s Club of Kyiv
On December 6 more than 30 Embassies set up colourful stalls with national souvenirs, dishes On December 6 more than 30 Embassies set up colourful stalls with national souvenirs, dishes and beverages for the Charity Bazaar. The Charity Bazaar” is the main event during which the Women’s Club collects money from the Embassies and different companies for the charitable programs aimed at helping the least privileged groups of population of Ukraine.
The representatives of the Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” and the Italian association “Soleterre” took part in this event where they had an opportunity to present their activities. Almost all the guests got the invitation from us to visit the festive fair “Generous Saint Nicholas 2008” the next Saturday during which “Zaporuka” will held the selling of New Year toys made by the patients of the paediatric department and their parents. Besides, some visitors were given funny New Year cards painted by the children who undergo treatment at the Institute of Cancer.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Italian Embassy and personally to Silvia Bagetti for providing us with the opportunity to participate in the annual Holiday Charity Bazaar.
8.12.2008
Round Table Dedicated to the Problems of Child Cancer Primary Diagnostics was Held in Kiev
On November 2008 the Round Table dedicated to the problems of child cancer primary diagnostics was held in Kiev. The Round Table was organized with the aim to approve the plan of the realization of project “Let’s Anticipate the Trouble!” in the 7 regions of Ukraine and to coordinate actions of the public and charitable organizations that work in the sphere of paediatric oncology.
The main objective of the project “Let’s Anticipate the Trouble!”is to increase the awareness of cancer both among the doctors and among parents.
After a long discussion the action plan of the project realization was approved, the Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” was elected the coordinator of the project and it was decided to sign the agreement of collaboration which will remain open so that all the public organization who would like to join it will be able to do at any stage of the project realization.
The second part of the Round Table was dedicated to the issues of preparing the Child Cancer Day on February 15, 2009. The participants of the meeting expressed the ideaof the nessecity to unite the efforts of all the Kyiv charitable funds and volunteer groups inorder to organize the joint event in our and th same room with the extended program – a photo exhibition, a children’s drawings exhibition, showing films about the life of the children ill with cancer, a press-conference etc. The representatives of the other regions shared their plans as to the events during the Children Cancer Day, for examp;le, the Charitable Fundfrom Lviv „Kryla Nadii“ offers to organize the candle action that they performed regularly and managed to draw the attention of the public. All the other participants liked the idea and it was decided to organiza the candle action „There is hope“ nationwide.
The participants ofthe Round Table were the following representativesof the charitable funds and volunteer groups:thedirectoroftheCharitableFund “VidSertsyadoSertsya” (Mykolaiv) BalinskaKateryna, thedirectoroftheCharitableFund “KrylaNadii” (Lviv) LipskaNatalia, theexecutivedirectoroftheCharitableFund “UkrainoYazaTebe”KuzmenkoLarysa, the CEO of oftheCharitableFund “UkrainoYazaTebe”OmelchukValeriy, thepresidentoftheCharitableFund “Zaporuka” Onipko Natalia, the project coordinator of theCharitableFund “Zaporuka” Savchuk Yana,the representative of the Italian assciation Marco Zecchinato, the director of the International Charitable Fund “Dar Nadii” Rybakov Yevgeniy,the director of the Charitable Fund „Spodivayus i Viryu“ Kasatkin Vladyslav, the representatives of the volunteer group of Kharkiv Kryvolapova Natalia and Syadrenko Oksana, the representatives of the volunteer groupof ChernigivGolovko Maria and Shurubura Tetiana, the representatives of the volunteer group „Podykh Zhyttya“ Pavlova Lubov, Syadrenko Oksana, Yurieva Natalia and Kryvolapova Natalia, the representatives of the volunteer group “Bratstvo” Petrushenko Olga and Popko Nadiya.
2.12.2008
2.12.2
“Rainbow in the Ward”
Within the framework of the project “Rainbow in the Ward” 150 drain systems UnoVac were purchased for the patients of the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer; these systems meet the annual demand of the department. As the professionals say, these systems are highly effective in wound cicatrization and in prevention infectious complications.
Besides, the paediatric department of the institute of Cancer received intravenous paediatric portsand consumables to them. The intrevanous port solves a problem of access to veins during long periods of treatment, diminishes the risk of infection as compared with other ways of enteral insertion, it is convenient for the patient (after the insertion of medicines a child can lead a normal life, take a shower, go in for sports because the port is unconspicuous and put under the skin) and for the medical staff.
The Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” and its beneficiaries express sincere gratitude to the Italian Charitable Organization “Children Future Projekt” for the financial support of the project!
26.11.2008
ANNOUNCEMENT: On November 23, 24 PARENT MEETING
Dear parents! You are invitedto take part in the traditionalPARENT MEETING that will be held on November, 22-23.
During the meeting you will have an opportunity to distract yourself from routine, share your emotions with friends, consult the specialists and just have fun in the company of people who can understand you better than anyone else in the world.
The program of the meeting was compiled taking into consideration your wishes and remarks.
The first day will be dedicated to the creative work of self-help groups under the guidance of the psychologist and in the evening we will visit the Kiev Drama and Comedy Theatre on the left bank of Dnipro to watch the play “So ended the summer”. On the second day we offer to paint New Yearornaments which will be sold during the holiday fair “Generous St. Nicolas” that will take place in Kiev on December, 13-14 on the territory of Expocenter. The collected money will be used to buy medicines for the Institute of Cancer. In such a way we can help those children who undergo treatment there. The meeting will take place in the room of the Institute of Postgraduate Education at the following address: Vasylkivska Str., 36, Kyiv. The beginning is at 11 a.m.
We ask everybody to register in advance calling the following numbers:
8-097-664-89-37 – Oksana
8-093-57-27-331 –Yana
Transfer, accommodation, dinners and breakfasts are at the expense of the Charitable Fund “ZAPORUKA”.
We will be very glad to meet you again!
Our Aid
In the context of the joint project “Smile in the Ward” conducted by the the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” in collaboration with the association “Soleterre”, the medical consumables (syringes, infusion pumps, transfusion systems, bandages), the total cost of which is 17 987 grn, foodstuffs, the total cost of which is 2 840 grn, medicines, the total cost of which is 8 884 grn were purchased.
For the Neurosurgical Paediatric Clinic we purchased the medicines “Meronem”, the cost of which is 3 900 grn, medical consumables (probes, blood filters, breathing filters, suture material etc.), the cost of which is 6 247 grn. The director of theNeurosurgical Clinic Prof. Orlov Y.O. claimed that due to the breathing systems with the integrated filter BB-25 the number of children who fell ill with pneumonia decreased by 40%.
5.10.2008
Ultrasound for the Institute of Cancer
Within the framework of the joint project with the association Soleterre, the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” purchased and donated to the Institute of Cancer the ultrasound diagnostic system SSA-580ANemioXG produced by ToshibaMedicalSystems Japan, the price of which is 415 503 grn. LLC “IBK “Tsentrobud” in person of the director Lytvynchuk Anatoliy Leontiyovych also participated in the project and we are very grateful for it.
This modern diagnostic system of high quality gives an opportunity to receive crearer images, based on which the doctors can make the right diagnosis and prescribe in time the necessary treatment what is very important in oncology. Besides, the ultrasound allows controlling the condition of the organism during the courses of chemotherapy and preparation to the operation.Before there was no such equipment in the department!
We hope that this system will help to save the lives of many children!
10.09.2008
WE ARE THE WINNERS!
From the 5th to the 7th of September in the capital of Poland Warsaw the Oncological Olympic Games 2008 took place. These Games were organized for the children who recovered from an oncological disease. The aim of this event was to popularize sports among these children and help them to become integrated into the society. The team representing Ukraine which consists of 18 participants (10 children more as compared with the previous year) won 13 medals and occupied the first place according to the number of medals.
A day before sending the participants to Warsaw, on September, the 3rd, in the pediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” organized a farewell party. The place for the party wasn’t chosen by chance because that day became special not only for those who went to Poland but also for those who was in the department and fought with their terrible disease.
The guests of the event were the representatives of the Football Federation of Ukraine, that is the famous players such as Volodymyr Muntyan and Vladyslav Vashuk who expressed their support for the children and hope that every year there would be more participants in that Olympic Games from Ukraine. The representative of the Olympic Committee Grabovetskyy Myroslav Mykhaylovych continued the official part of the event. The head of the Olympic Committee Bubka Sergiy Nazarovych coundn’t attend the party but he sent the letter in which he wrote that the children who went to the Olympic Games had already been winners because they had overcame the diseaseand wished that the Games became a special event in their life. The representative of the Paraolympic Committee of Ukraine Chaplygina Alla Oleksandrivna also congratulated the participants and wished them success in sport and in life.
After all the official speeches Vladyslav Vashuk and Volodymyr Muntyan gave sport kits to the participants and presents to all the children who underwent treatment at the department. Then Vashuk continued to communicate with the children dispensing autographs and had photographs taken with everybody who wanted them.
On September, the 5th, in the morning the children arrived in Warsaw. After having rest they were ready to attend the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games and participate in different competitions such as football, table-tennis, swimming, running, jumping and so on. The atmosphere of the Games was friendly and cheerful although those who lost their competitions often burst into tears – everything was for real!
Besidesthecompetitions, thechildrenhadanopportunitytocommunicatewiththeirpeersfromothercountries: ourchildrengotalongverywellwiththerepresentativesoftheRussianteam and our girls enjoyed dancing with the boys from Turkey. The cultural programme which presupposed a tour around Warsaw impressed the children and their parents greatly.
Onthe8thofSeptemberattheCentralRailwayStationinKievthewinnerswerewelcomedwiththeflowersbytherepresentativesoftheassociation “Soleterre” andthecharitablefund “Zaporuka”. Happy children were singing songs about Ukraine sharing their splendid emotions with everyone around.
The Italian clown-volunteers from the association Soleterre ONLUS came to our children again. From 9 to 10 of August they worked in the paediatric department of Institute of Cancer and in the Neurosurgical Paediatric Clinic.
Every day they tried to create a special atmosphere in the department full of children’s smiles, warmth and positive energy.
The volunteers offered different activities and entertainment to the patients of the department:logic games and drawing, making collages and outdoor games, body painting and making bracelets. The children were looking forward for their Italian friends to come because they had fun with them and it was always interesting with them.
Every time when the volunteers came there was a tradition to organize for the children and the Italians some excursion in Kyiv. This time, on August, 15, the children went to the Kyiv Zoo. They were walking along cozy streets of the zoo, watching exotic animals, feeding domestic animals in the special cages. Besides, the children were very happy to spend time with their friends.
We are grateful to the Directors of the Kyiv Zoo for the opportunity to organize this event!
Sincere gratitude to the volunteers of Soleterre ONLUS from the children and their parents!
15.08.2008
Volunteer Camp
The volunteers of the Italian association EST ONLUS worked in the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer from 15 to 30 of July. Every day they organized and conducted interesting activities for the children – drawing, making bracelets out of beads and ornaments out of coloured paper and so on. Besides, the volunteers played different games with the children.
The children liked to work with the Italians and were very happy when they came. The Italian volunteers managed to find approach even to the shiest children involving them into games and other activities.
On July, 25 twelve children with the parents and the Italian volunteers got the opportunity to go for 3-hour excursion on the Dnipro. The children had fun enjoying the picturesque view of the capital and fresh air. Everybody was impressed by the excursion and the opportunity to communicate with the friends and guests.
Sincere gratitude to the LLC “River Passenger Excursion Agency” for a good organization!
30.07.2008
“Aqua Vita” in the Department
Water is a natural source of life. It is a well known fact that 50 percent of the weight of the person’s organism iswater.That’s why it is very important to understand and to know what we drink.
Now in the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer our little patients drink the water “Ukrainochka” which fits the criteria of the best drinking water according to the research of the Ukrainian Institute of Person’s Ecology. “Ukrainochka” is “Aqua Vita”, it is biologically active, the structure of it is the closest to the structure of water inside the cells.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Trade Mark “Ukrainochka”, LLC “Prospero” for providing the patients of the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer with this water. Thank you!
15.06.2008
“Zaporuka”: We started working!
We started working! We are the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka”! In course of the realization of the project “Smile in the Ward” by the Italian charitable association “Soleterre” the idea of creating the Ukrainian charitable fund was conceived and its implementation was put into motion. Being our instructors, “Soleterre” prepared the team for independent work. The preparation was scrupulous and diligent: there was exchange of information, the staff was properly trained, and foreign colleagues were invited to share their experience. Our team worked really hard day by day. And now we are proud to start our work!
We are working as previously and the team remains the same. We hope that we will work better for the sake of our little patients!
Our address:
Kyiv,
Vasylkivska Str, 30 (Fabrika Kyyanka),
the 3rd floor
Tel. (044) 501-67-86
We are waiting for everybody who needs our help!
05.06.2008
Let’s Save Children’s Lives Together!
The association “Soleterre” in collaboration with the charitable organization the “Kyiv Lions’ Club” purchased the ultrasonic dissector Sonoca 300, the total cost of which is 40 000 euro, for the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery.
Besides, we organized a souvenir fair during the event: we were selling post cards designed by the kids, magnets with Zaporuka symbol, balloons in the form of a heart given to us by the company SHAR-master and chocolate hearts prepared for us by the confectioner’s shop Repryza. All the money raised we used for redecorations of the recreation room for children at the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery. 
The current meeting took place at the commercial centre MAGELAN the day before the International Childhood Cancer Day, that’s why we invited the parents to participate in our event “In Love with Life”. After the event we went back to the Center Smile where the parents enjoyed a delicious meal and a relaxation program prepared by the Italian theatre director Giorgio. 
“Kindred spirits got together at the hospitable house. Everything we did together gave us only positive emotions. We had a good rest, physically and morally. It would be good to have more such meetings that gave us positive emotions and unite us. We would like to meet more and more times. We would like to thank Zaporuka employees for their precious work. And we would like to thank Giorgio and Giampiero for giving childish emotions while playing with us” – Demyanchuk O.M., Mochulska L.V., Voronaya S.V., Motevosyan T.V., Buryak O.N., Volovnyk S.V. 
It’s always pleasant to receive gifts. It is even more pleasant to watch the kids opening their gifts with genuine interest. The VAB Bank, our new friend, bought creative activities sets for the children who are treated at the Institute of Cancer. Under the guidance of the ZAPORUKA teacher the children started making gypsum souvenirs – piggy banks, pictures and magnets. Volunteers helped them in the most complicated parts – to knead gypsum and fill it in forms. Further the girls and boys continued making souvenirs and coloring them on their own. The time flew very fast in the company of good friends. All of us had great fun together! 
On November, 3 while Inter’s players and coaches left the airport heading for Opera Hotel, Zaporuka and Soleterre employees were waiting patiently for the club managers to receive the gifts prepared by the guests from Milan in advance. 
However, the next day the head coach Jose Mourinho didn’t let his players to go anywhere because of the important match with Dinamo. Still, Inter’s delegation consisting of the Golden Ball winner Luis Figo (after finishing his career he became Inter’s official representative in different events and actions), a sister of Inter’s President and at the same time a famous actress Bedi Moratti and Inter’s chief executive Ernesto Paolillo went to the Paediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery and to the first Ukrainian Center for children zffected by cancer and their parents. 
prepared a special program for them: their own interpretation of the fairy tale “Kolobok”, gifts made by their own hands and, of course, special congratulations for Luis Figo who would celebrate his 37th birthday on the next day. The guests from Milan, in their turn, gave the children the above mentioned gifts, made pictures with them and gave autographs! Sometimes Signora Moratti couldn’t hold back a tear looking into the children’s faces…
During the 3rd trimester to help the patients of the pediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer and the Pediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery the charitable fund Zaporuka spent 293 240 grn. within the frameworks of the project “Smile in the Ward”. 
On the 1st of August the Hosting and Rehabilitation House for children ill with cancer and their families has been launched according to the plan. 
The volunteers of the Italian humanitarian association Soleterre Giovanni Rossi and Gigi Marangon went on bikes from Italy to Ukraine in the context of the project “Smile on the Wheels”. The goal of this motor-raid was raising money in order to help the Ukrainian children ill with cancer. 
an apiary, a water mill and many other interesting objects. 
Mother of God: the priest blessed all the children and gave them crosses, incenses and icons. 
For the third day the volunteers prepared an entertainment program for the patients of the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer. Having disguised themselves in clowns’ costumes they were making the children laugh, treating them with sweets and doing creative activities with them – drawing and clay modeling. Then the children wanted to ride the bikes and get adrenalin from such riding – unforgettable impressions are guaranteed! Finally, the children were invited to a traditional Italian dinner with pizzas. Everybody had fun!
Once at the office we received a telephone call from Italy.
One more piece of pleasant news! Together with other sponsors our fund purchased a modern complex of equipment (a microscope with all the accessories) necessary for genetic diagnostics of malignant tumors by the FISH method. Our contribution makes up 180 651 grn. 
This equipment was essential for the paediatric department of the Institute of Cancer to make correct diagnoses using methods of genetic diagnostics and choose a correct therapy in order to treat children ill with cancer in accordance with modern protocols. 
It is a staff psychologist’s room at the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer. 
installed new plumbing equipment and electric devices, painted the walls warm colors! New beautiful furniture supplement the interior, they are a new big bookcase, a writing table, a table for group work with the children, a 
sofa, chairs. To create good work conditions at the psychologist’s office we spent 23 191, 81 grn.
Thanks to the sponsor support of the Ama Onlus and Plaza Onlus from Italy the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” managed to purchase for the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute of Neurosurgery 6 beds Junior for children and teenagers, 10 beds for newborn babies and bed linen, the total cost of which is 
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Within the framework of the joint project with the association Soleterre, the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka” purchased and donated to the Institute of Cancer the ultrasound diagnostic system 
From the 5th to the 7th of September in the capital of Poland Warsaw the Oncological Olympic Games 2008 took place. These Games were organized for the children who recovered from an oncological disease. The aim of this event was to popularize sports among these children and help them to become integrated into the society. The team representing 
The guests of the event were the representatives of the Football Federation of Ukraine, that is the famous players such as Volodymyr Muntyan and Vladyslav Vashuk who expressed their support for the children and hope that every year there would be more participants in that Olympic Games from Ukraine. The representative of the Olympic Committee Grabovetskyy Myroslav Mykhaylovych continued the official part of the event. The head of the Olympic Committee Bubka Sergiy Nazarovych coundn’t attend the party but he sent the letter in which he wrote that the children who went to the Olympic Games had already been winners because they had overcame the disease and wished that the Games became a special event in their life. The representative of the Paraolympic Committee of Ukraine Chaplygina Alla Oleksandrivna also congratulated the participants and wished them success in sport and in life. 
After all the official speeches Vladyslav Vashuk and Volodymyr Muntyan gave sport kits to the participants and presents to all the children who underwent treatment at the department. Then Vashuk continued to communicate with the children dispensing autographs and had photographs taken with everybody who wanted them. 
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The Italian clown-volunteers from the association Soleterre ONLUS came to our children again. From 9 to 10 of August they worked in the paediatric department of 
Italian friends to come because they had fun with them and it was always interesting with them. 
The volunteers of the Italian association EST ONLUS worked in the paediatric department of the National Institute of Cancer from 15 to 30 of July. Every day they organized and conducted interesting activities for the children – drawing, making bracelets out of beads and ornaments out of coloured paper and so on. Besides, the volunteers played different games with the children.
Water is a natural source of life. It is a well known fact that 50 percent of the weight of the person’s 
We started working! We are the Ukrainian Charitable Fund “Zaporuka”! In course of the realization of the project “Smile in the Ward” by the Italian charitable association “Soleterre” the idea of creating the Ukrainian charitable fund was conceived and its implementation was put into motion.
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