17-12-11

Today the department has been visited by St. Nicholas and Angel. They tried to stop and disarm Kikimora and Devil. Also we sang to the guitar, played the charades, air-fired balloons, received gifts. We had great time and a lot of fun! Special thanksgiving to Olga Lagoda! Once, when she heard the actress Rimma Zyubina on the radio talking about our Foundation, Olga got interested, checked a website and decided to organize an event for the children. We thank everyone who supported her: Alyona and Viktor Senkovsky, Lina Zaika, Svetlana Galak, Sergey Novgorodsky, Sergey Garashchuk, Oksana Zvol, and others. We know that we will meet again!

15-12-11

Today we watched the fairy tale “Masha and the Bear”. We had everything in this puppet show as if we had been at the Theater: the scenery, music and puppets and actors, we even turned off the lights. The event was held under the "Hope for Children" Program carried out by the «Samsung Electronics Ukraine" company. Thank you for the joyful emotions! Many of the spectators watched a puppet show for the first time in their lives!

11-12-11

Long ago we had a tradition to bake and decorate Christmas cakes for St. Nicholas Day. The Germans have preserved the same tradition to bake Christmas cakes up to these days. Today everyone had a chance to decorate his/her Christmas cake prior baked by the “StudKrab” volunteer Evgeniya Novikova. We had lots of fun! The kids enjoyed coloring with the paints they could also taste!

06-12-11

Clay contains all the mineral salts and microelements necessary to our bodies. Besides, they believe that the land derivatives which store energy for thousands of years produce a special aura harmonizing everything around it. Today everyone had a chance to make some figurines out of clay. The main task was not so much to create highly artistic work, though some items turned out to be very interesting, but to encourage the kids to work manually with clay. Thank you girls from "Our Expedition" for the useful and pleasant evening!

03-12-11

“People help people” is the slogan of annual New Year charitable fairs organized by International Women’s Club of Kiev. Today in Kiev Expo Plaza you could witness different people participating in charity – those who bought goods and those who sold goods. Sales were held by all the countries which have diplomatic missions in Ukraine. The diplomats of all countries themselves opened this Charitable Fair.
During such events there are funds raised for providing grants to the charitable organizations for the upcoming year. Also on a separate stand the IWCK grantees had a chance to present their organizations. We have been taking part in such events for the previous three years.

26-11-11

The manager of the project “Beauty salon therapy”, our volunteer Elena Finger (Widerstrahl Center of German culture) invited the manicure master Svetlana Zametalina and the visage naster Anastasia Melniychuk today.
Our little patients’ moms got an opportunity to not only get haircuts done, but also to fix their nails and to admire themselves with the new makeup. There were so many moms wishing to experiment! Unfortunately, the masters physically could not devote time to everybody. We were happy to see the moms’ desire to be beautiful and well-groomed. Today we heard one little patient saying: “Granny, let them put some makeup on you! When wearing makeup, you won’t cry!”
We thank Elena, Svetlana and Anastasia for helping our moms look beautiful ladies again!

25-11-11

Within the scope of the charitable project “Hope for Children!” initiated by Samsung Company, we received Ruslana – singer, pianist, composer, producer and parliamentarian – at the Childhood Cancer Department today.
In May 2004 Ruslana shook an international stage – the Ukrainian vocalist amazed the Music Contest Eurovision, broadcasted from Istanbul, Turkey. One and a half billion spectators all over the world watched Ruslana’s triumph! The winning single “Wild Dances” and the album of the same name became popular in 25 countries. Phenomenal success gave this slender energetic lady a good chance to make the whole world to be her stage.
Thanks for the possibility to interact with a confident positive person!

25-11-11

If you never heard Vasiliy Popadiuk playing, you just fail to understand the charming fascinating exciting sound of violin! Today the famous Ukrainian violinist, PapaDuke group founder, left no one at the Department indifferent!
Vasiliy lives and works in Canada. The press named Popadiuk as “King of Violin”. His talent amazes people all over the world. The King Hussein gave him as a gift a watch engraved with the King’s name; the Queen Sophia invites him with the repeated concerts to Spain where he is called “Master Violin”.
In America he is called “Golden Violin”; in Canada we he won semi-final СBS Great Canadian Music Dream, - "Modern Paganini".
The concert took place within the scope of preparing for the first in Ukraine «Charitable Meeting «Tree of Life» scheduled for February’9 2012 in Kiev.
We thank Rinat Akhmetov’s Fond “Development of Ukraine” for the visit organized and pleasure received! It was a fantastic experience!

24-11-11

“Sling-mama” is a mother who can lead an active lifestyle and communication even being a mom of a small baby. Sling-mama Olya, volunteer of our Foundation, in community with LiveJournal organized and conducted a fundraising auction.
Mother-crafts masters provided amazing lots – jewelry, toys, clothes, backpacks – all things are full of positive energy since they are handmade with lots of love.
The auction lasted for two weeks and is over today. The total sum of the sales made up 1 655 UAH! We sincerely thank all the sling-mamas and wonderful crafts masters for participating in the auction!

06-11-11

The 5th all-Ukraine soccer tournament started in the “Business League” hall. In the tournament there participate 90 teams; one of them is the team “Crab”. The tournament is scheduled to finish at the end of March, 2012. Support our team! Visit the games! Special thanksgiving words to the young men who volunteered to share about our Foundation in such a way! We wish you new victories!

04-11-11

Today the whole evening we spent in Dasha Malakhova’s company. The most diligent little cooks did their best to provide dinner not only for themselves, but for everybody present. Under Dasha’s supervision they succeeded and had lots of fun! Thank you to all involved who made this master class take place!
There are some pictures in the Photo Gallery

30-10-11

From October’27 till October’29 the 5th International Conference “Children’s Palliative Aid in Eastern Europe” took place in Minsk. Belorussia, Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Switzerland, South Africa, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary – the representatives of all these countries were present at the meeting, shared their experiences, problems and ideas. We sincerely thank “Belossian Children’s Hospice” for wonderfully organized meeting!

03-10-11

Today the press conference took place in UNIAN, which started the All-Ukraine Week of Palliative and Hospice Aid initiated by the Ukrainian League of Assisting Development of Palliative and Hospice Aid.
The journalists’ questions were answered by Vasiliy Knyazevich, the Head of the Ukrainian League of Assisting Development of Palliative and Hospice Aid; Lyudmila Andriishin, the regional hospital “Hospice” head physician, Ivano-Frankovsk; Larisa Lavrenyuk, head of the Childhood Cancer Foundation “Crab”; Dasha Malakhova, anchorperson, “Crab” volunteer.
One of our Foundation areas is developing the palliative and hospice aid in Ukraine. Our desire coincides with the Ukrainian League goals. We have recently become members of this organization.
Annually around 500 thousand people need special care and assistance at the end of their early life. Unfortunately, this problem attracts little attention. In Ukraine there are only 12 inpatient hospices and 20 palliative care departments in hospitals. There is NO single specialized hospice for children. One more problem in palliative medicine is lack of painkillers, extremely complicated procedure of prescribing opioid analgesics, groundless restriction of dosages and pain-relief medicine quantity per patient. Ukraine is the only European country using injection morphine. Besides, a daily dose of injections is restricted despite the individual pain level. In the civilized world there widely used band-aids, pills and syrups for pain relief.

28-09-11

On the “Fancywork Rainbow” forum there interact the skilled crafts ladies from different corners of the world. Incredibly beautiful glass beads flowers admire and bring lots of joy; they also provide financial help to children when take part in actions. We welcome an idea of holding an action “Flowers of Life”. For several months 181 “flowers of life” were handmade and collected in various places in Ukraine, Russia, Belorussia, Bulgaria, Germany, England and USA.
Today Olya and Nastya brought them to Kiev. We have no words strong enough to tell how much we appreciate every single flower, the very idea, desire and fascination! The flowers will participate in the Christmas/New Year Fair launched by the International Women’s Club of Kiev.

15-09-11

Since the beginning of the year thanks to your donations the “Crab” Foundation spent 635 324 UAH on the needs of the Childhood Cancer Department
Purchased:
- Chemical solution (potassium/sodium chloride, detergent) – 14 800 UAH 91 kop;
- Household appliances – 1 965 UAH 59 kop.;
- Medical equipment – 136 072 UAH 24 kop.;
- Medical uniform – 17 231 UAH 20 kop.;
- Systems for infusion – 44 782 UAH 84 kop.;
- Medical instruments – 15 881 UAH 48 kop.;
- Endoprosthesis – 45 000 UAH;
- Active storage for operating room – 44 107 UAH 46 kop.;
- Leukocyte and platelet sets – 57 762 UAH 44 kop.;
- Medical furniture – 52 473 UAH 60 kop.;
- Bedding linen sets – 15 717 UAH 60 kop.;
- Medicine – 141 656 UAH 37 kop.;
- Repairs in the first-referral manipulation room № 301 – 45 652 UAH 45 kop.;
- Telephone landline bills room #301 – 300 UAH;
- Drinking water – 1 920 UAH.
The year is not over yet! We can succeed in much more! Thank you for your trust!

08-09-11

In Angelica’s works a “tree-painted egg” shows up as a Universe prototype. The mystery of egg – beginning of life as well as mystery of tree – power of life, through the millenniums aroused various associations and were considered by people as the biggest miracles. With time tree and egg became Slavic symbols of spring awakening on Earth, symbols of life’s victory over death. Exactly such a tree we painted with Angelica Rudnitska at the Department today.
To be more accurate, everyone painted his/her own tree (according to their wish) and Angelica shared a lot of fascinating information about symbolism and trees meanwhile. And she generously complimented all! This sweet lady charms wonderfully and finds a common language with the naughtiest kiddos.
See pictures in Photo Gallery. Angelica Rudnitska

07-09-11

Since May 2011 anyone could get a book “Little Mouse Puh-Puh” from the volunteer on the streets of the city. This fairy-tale by the Armenian writer Derenik Demirchyan was first translated into Ukrainian, designed into a beautiful book, published and charitably sold by amazing friends from the art school “Indi Art”. By the way, the book published met all standards of editions for children!
Little Mouse gets through a crack inside of a coconut, eats and drinks to his heart content… what happens next, you can learn from the book which was designed by “Indi Art” art school students.
Information at phone numbers: 044 383 93 73, 063 826 12 36.
We thank all working at designing the book! We thank all responding to the art school students’ initiative and helping the Childhood Cancer Department of the National Institute of Cancer! Totally we fundraised 7 012 UAH!

11-08-11

For keeping active surgery storage and medicine directly in the operating room of the Childhood Cancer Department the doctors asked to purchase the cabinet. Today it was delivered.

01-08-11

Remodeling the manipulation room (#301) of the Childhood Cancer Department is over; today most of medical for it was delivered. We spent a lot of time gathering, installing, assembling, cleaning…. Not everything planned is fulfilled, but it is already pleasant and joyful to watch the changes!
Annually the first-referral room (#301) opens the doors to 3 500 children from all regions of Ukraine. Every day the medical staff examines 20 to 30 children. With the special equipment the first-referral manipulation room can function as a mini operating room – then there’ll be no need to send the child to the bandaging room in the Childhood Cancer Department for biopsy or other simple surgery procedures. This will consequently save time in exams of children.

21-07-11

Hurray! Laboratory indirect light microscope with video camera for documentation, produced at the German factory, passed the customs and successfully arrived at the National Institute of Cancer today.
With the help of Axio Lab.A1 microscope there are more options to easily and effectively perform searches in microbiological, hematological and pathological laboratories. The microscope allows having such searches as bright field, dark field, phase contrast and fluorescence done. We hope that the new optics will help our specialists in working with pathohistological samples. We thank the Konrads’ who helped to buy the microscope for the lab!