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.