Free Accommodation for Kids with Cancer in Ukraine

Dear friends,

thank you for making home away from home for kids with cancer!

On February 24^th, when Russia invaded Ukraine starting this terrible war, the families who stayed at the Dacha house had to decide very quickly what to do to save their children.

We organized for them the evacuation to Ternopil in Western Ukraine and three families left immediately. They were very scared. The journey was very difficult because of bombardment and heavy traffic. It took 15 hours to reach the destination. It was really hard for kids, for example, for Vika who was in grave condition after being on treatment for 3 years but they made it.

It was the right decision to evacuate kids immediately because then they could go abroad for further treatment. Those kids who remained in Kyiv longer had to stay in basements without chemo and other therapies because drugs couldn’t be delivered to them in time.

Now the rented Dacha house is closed in Kyiv. The new house Dacha we have been building for three years and preparing for inauguration in June is also closed for now. The father of one of the girls we evacuated to Italy for treatment stays in the house as a volunteer guardian to make sure everything is alright there (as much as it can be alright during the war). We hope that we will be able to open this house to help kids in the future.  

Now your contributions make it possible to provide temporary accommodation for kids with cancer and their families on the way to safety from all over Ukraine. Thank you so much for being there for us in the most difficult time of the modern Ukrainian history!