Free Accommodation for Kids with Cancer in Ukraine

Dear friends,

thank you for supporting Ukrainian kids with cancer!

Now our team is celebrating 10^th anniversary of Zaporuka Foundation. It is time to look back and to see what we have accomplished. During this time we helped more 2000 kids with cancer providing them with medicines and therapies for the total amount of more than 3 million dollars. The project Dacha that you are supporting is active for 8 years and during this period more than 1000 families received free accommodation.

It is also time to think big and to make our biggest dream come true. Our goal is to build a new modern Center Dacha specially designed for kids affected by cancer. Now with the Center that we rent we can guarantee free accommodation for 6 families. But in reality at least 15 of such families need a place to stay. We have a land plot, a project made by local architectures for free, all the permits and a part of the necessary amount of money for construction. We continue fundraising and that’s why we updated the project and we hope to receive your support.

We are happy that our Dacha was named GlobalGiving’s Project of the Month for May 2018. That’s really important for families who come for kids’ treatment from all over Ukraine like little Adelina. She is only eight months old. She qas diagnosed with kidney cancer. She underwent a complicated surgery and many chemotherapy cycles. At the moment, the girl lives with her parents at the Dacha where her family can be together and support each other. And here her twin sister Dominika can come to visit her.

While Adelina is receiving treatment in Kyiv, her twin sister Dominika stays with her grannies at home. Still, there is a connection between them and at distance it seems even stronger. Granny may not tell their mom that Dominika had caught a cold but the next morning Adelina wakes up with the same symptoms. The parents and little girls were so sad that they couldn't be together all the time.  And one day granny brought her granddaughter Diminika to Kyiv for a visit. It was a perfect family moment: all together, smiling, playing and sometimes even behaving naughtily.

Whenever we hear kids’ loud voices and laughs at the Center Dacha, we understand how much they need a place where they can get together and support each other even if they are far away from home and fight for their lives against a serious disease. It makes their road to recovery easier. Your contributions make it possible. Thank you!