13-03-10

Our Friends and Partners -All-Ukrainian Youth Public Organization "Service For Peace" - developed the art therapy program to practice at the Childhood Cancer Department of the National Institute of Cancer for the coming year http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/art-therapy-program-for-children-with-cancer/

11-03-10

In the histological Department of the National Institute of Cancer there are assembled and are in operation four workplaces for laboratory assistants. Thank you everyone who helped us cover production and assembly of special furniture (equipment) for the laboratory. Exactly here working with the material they determine the kind of tumor, its malignancy and activeness of cells. These are the first tables with air vent. Our next purchase is planned to be an anesthetic-respiratory apparatus for the Childhood Cancer Department. It costs around 19 000 euro. Unfortunately, at the moment our doctors use an anesthetic apparatus produced in the 40th.

15-02-10 «We live on this Earth»

“We are not like everyone else. We are afraid of the sunshine. We don’t wear revealing clothes and pink ribbons in our hair. We know how to smile with the tears in our eyes and we know how to cry with the smile on our lips. Instead of ice-cream we eat a bunch of various pills. Our best toys are syringes and droppers. We felt all kinds of pain... We know how much our lives cost. We learned to believe in God. And wait for the miracle. We learned tens of prayers and repeat them every night over and over again. We do not want to die. WE want to live on this Earth. Because we are just children - children with cancer”.
Tanya V.

The exhibition “We Live On This Earth” dedicated to the Childhood Cancer Day is open. From 12.00 till 19.00 we invite you to the Alexander Prognimak cultural-educational center - Alex Art House (str.Khoriv, 25, subway station “Kontraktova Square”). The exposition will be help till February’21.
At the exhibition “We Live On this Earth” there are displayed the works of volunteers and children with cancer from the Foundation “Crab” (kiev), “Give a Life” (Moscow), “Advita” (st.Petersburg), “Daryna” (Dnepropetrovsk), “Save a Life” (Vladivostok), “Mamaunia” (Vilnius), “Rugute” (Vilnius), the volunteer center at the hospital Motol (Prague). For the first time the exhibition is on not only in Moscow, but also in Kiev. 37 children participate in this event.
According to the data of the National cancer-registry of Ukraine, at least 1000 children fall sick with cancer every year. Undoubtedly these children need money for medicine, equipment, surgeries, and besides all the required medical procedures art stimulates their successful recovery. While fulfilling their artistic potential they manifest their life, stop thinking about their endless procedures and chemo. They learn to rejoice at their life and learn to live again.
Project support from the Laexander Prognimak cultural-educational Center – Alex Art House, photocenter “Escar”, radio station HIT FM.

05-12-09 17th Annual Holiday Market IWCK.

"People help people" - this is a motto of annual Yew Year Charity Market which is organized by International Kyiv Women Club. During this event they collect money, that are used for giving grants to charitable organizations. Not only those who buy products take part in this total charity event but also people who sell. There were markets from all countries that have diplomatic presence in Ukraine, moreover diplomats themselves did the opening of this Charitable Market. Also, 18 IWCK grantees had a chance to present their organizations. Very good initiative! This year our Fund was granted by International kyiv Women Club with a grant for art classes at the center.

03-12-09 Sterilizing machine is already at the Department.

We are so thankful to all of you who helped us pay for the air sterilizing machine which will be widely used by the Childhood Cancer Department. Today the equipment was delivered to the Department. At the instance of the doctors last September we initiated the fund-raising to purchase the bain-marie (water bath) and the sterilizing machine for the Department. The bain-marie (water bath) was delieverd to the Department last October and today there arrived the sterilizing machine. Thank you very much!

05-08-09 ArtStudio

International Women’s Club of Kiev (IWCK) supported our project of art lessons at the Childhood Cancer Department. Due to them we will be able to provide active storage for the lessons. The goal of the lessons is not just to distract our small patients from the course of treatment, but also to teach them something new and fascinating, to teach them new techniques and to show that they can see the world in a new way. As a part of the ArtStudio project we plan to organize art lessons as well as photography study group; we will also produce our own animated cartoon. We will keep you updated thereabout through our news posts and you will be able to see them in our exhibitions. Today we had the first ArtStudio lesson. Supervised by our volunteer Olya our children had a chance to chalk. More pictures in the Gallery section.

03-08-09 During the first six months of 2009

During the first six months of 2009 due to your donations we were able to cover the following needs:
Medical consumables (operating supply) – 25 125 UAH
Autotransfusion cell separator Electa- 196 000 UAH
АТS sets for Separator – 18 900 UAH
Household goods – 10 383 UAH
Chemical agents (reagents) – 6 870 UAH
Landline telephone fee in of.301 - 700 UAH
Prostheses for children - 12 662 UAH
Medical equipment maintenance and repair - 8 996 UAH
A new window in the kitchen and mounting anti-mosquito nets - 3 278 UAH
Drinking water delivery - 640 UAH
Holding an annual meeting “Survivors – Winners of Life” - 9 300 UAH
With the help of the program “A minute of Kindness” on HIT FM Radio Station seven (7) children received financial aid proved by more than 130 000 UAH donated in their parents’ bank accounts.

26-07-09 Regional meeting.

Today is the last day of the third regional meeting of representatives of charitable foundations, organizations, parent and volunteer groups from the Eastern Europe countries who direct their efforts to helping children with oncological and oncohaematological diseases.
The meeting was initiated and partially financially supported by the International Confederation ICCCPO, the organizers were the Charitable Foundation “Wienna” (Konotop-Sumy), Charitable Foundation “Zaporuka” (Kiev), Charitable Foundation “Crab” (Kiev). In Ukraine this meeting took place for the first time. In a friendly company and with the intention to share experience and discuss common problems there gathered the representatives of Serbia, Finland, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Tatarstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine.

07-07-09 Thank you for your trust!

“Crab” gives sincere thanks to all of you who donated money for purchasing a autotransfusion separator of blood cells “Elekta” for the Childhood Cancer Department of the National Institute of Cancer!
We fully covered the cost of the appliance. Since May’16 it has been used during surgeries. One of its functions is to gather blood lost by the patient in the course of surgery, to purify it and to return it to the patient. The medical crew is highly satisfied with the new appliance and keeps constantly thanking us for it. All their thanksgiving we forward to YOU! In the most complicated cases the appliance is used during operations by the Cancer Department for adults. The separator has no expiration date. Every patient receives his/her own attachable set. We will be purchasing more sets for the Childhood Cancer Department as far as possible. Thank you again to all of you who helped us!

06-06-09 “Winners in Life” (“Survivors”)

There took place the second annual meeting “Winners in Life”. It is a meeting of those who received the medical course of special treatment at the Childhood Cancer Department of the National Institute of Cancer longer than 1 year ago. During two days we had a tour on a boat; the participants received gifts, they made tasty milk shakes with Dasha Malakhova, with the blessing stayed overnight in Kiev-Cave Lavra, were present at the Service in Lavra, under the master’s supervision made knot dolls, visited the Kiev Zoo, prepared a petition-letter to the official institutions with the request to allocate a land lot for organizing a camp for our children. This year we received 29 children with their parents, sisters. The youngest participant was 5 and his treatment was over 4 years ago. The oldest participants were 20 and their treatments were over longer than 5 years ago, one of them arrived with her own little daughter. Our participants came from Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhe, Krivoy Rog, Lugansk region, Khmelnitskiy, Cherkassy region, Odessa, Energodar, Vinnitsa, Crimea, Zhitomir, Nikolayev, Rovno, Balta, Uman, Ternopol region, Slavuta, Ivano-Frankovsk region, Lubny, Bershady. This year we received 10 more participants than last year. We hope that every new annual meeting will host even more participants. It was very joyful to see the participant exchanging telephone numbers, addresses and enjoying the new friends.
The meeting “Winners in Life” took place thanks to our friends: company “Volya-Cable”, “Zhytomyrski lasoschi”, McDonalds Ukraine, Charitable Foundation “Development of Ukraine”, Kiev-Cave Lavra, Radio Station “Hit FM”, Kiev city Zoo, River Passenger Tour Agency, Dasha Malakhova, Ekaterina Serebryanskaya.
The next meeting will take place on June’4 2010.

See pictures in Gallery.

15-02-09 International Childhood Cancer Day

February’15 is an International Childhood Cancer Day. On this day childhood cancer is widely discussed all over the world. About problems, victories, pain, joy, prospective possibilities.
According to the ICCCPO data – Childhood Cancer surviving has increased twice for the previous 30 years and makes up 80% now; however, this rate is mainly typical of well-developed countries, in other words only one cancer patient out of 5 will experience it.
In developing countries the rate of childhood cancer surviving is usually 20 %. Annually 100 000 children die of treatment lack. Since 2007 there has existed the World Childhood Cancer Foundation; the main task and goal of it is to remove the difference in Childhood Cancer surviving rates in well-developed and developing countries.
This organization releases two new projects in Malawi and Columbia, to the end of 2009 will select three more projects. Hopefully, Ukraine will be a part of this project.