This page is specially dedicated to those children whose situations are most critical at the Childrens Hospital and Research Center in Minsk. Here you can get to know these children and find out what their most urgent needs are.

These children need our support and our prayers !

S.O.S – support urgently needed

JENIA TCHASNOLIAVITCHUS

3 years old 

 Neuroblastoma. Family of six children in a state of extreme poverty. His mother does not work. His father is dead. His eighteen year old sister looks after him. She's a brave girl !

Sad news - little Jenia died in April 2007

MAKSIME LOUKOCHNIKOV  -

13 years old (30/01/1993) He has been suffering from a Yuining sarcoma since1998.

His mother raises her two children alone.

We have just been informed of the sad news of Maksime's death in June 2007

Intensive care unit

My name is Izman Raïssa. My daughter Christina Prokoptchik (10 years old) is in intensive care. She has just been operated for a cerebral tumour and she is suffering serious lung complications. I am unable to go to work as I must be with my daughter at the hospital. Christina’s father died in 2005. My other three children have stayed at home. At the moment we are in a critical situation financially.

Natalia Tourliakova, the psychologist in Intensive Care says : Christina needs nappies (diapers) and care products. She weighs a mere 20kg.

Transplant unit

VITIA ADAMAITISSE

A family is now sponsoring Vitia

Marina Kozubenko, age 4 – lukemia. From a family of evangelical christians with 5 children. The father is a priest in the village church. He works when the mother is able to replace him to look after their daughter.

Luba Avlasenok, age 9 – brain tumour. From a family of 4 children. Her father is dead and her mother is unable to go out to work because she has to stay and care for Luba. They live off the little girl’s health allowance.

Dima Khoronenko, 8 months – brain tumour. His mother is only 17 years old and still at school. No father. She looks after her son, surviving on his health allowance.

Infectious diseases unit 

IRINA CHICHAKOVA

(age 17)

She suffers from cancer of the lymph glands and from tuberculosis and has been in hospital since August 2001. In 2005 she had a stem cell transplant. Irina’s mother can’t work because she spends all her time caring for her daughter. Financially they are in a critical situation.

 Age 8

My name is Béla Lévonian. I urge you to listen to me and understand what a desperate situation we are in.

Our son Lévontchik became ill in February 2006. We are from Georgia. There he was diagnosed as suffering from acute promyelocytic lukemia. We came to Minsk, as in Georgia there was no hope of him being cured.

The problem is, that we are strangers here and consequently we must pay for our son’s stay at the hospital and for all the treatment he is given. This should take 6 months. We have already payed 5 000 dollars which we managed to borrow from family and friends for the first month of treatment. At the moment we owe the hospital 2 000 dollars. We can’t carry on with Lévontchik’s treatment unless we can find the money to pay for it. We are Armenians. We have two children. My husband has to look for work in Russia because there is no hope of working in Georgia. Our situation is very difficult because my husband is in Russia and I have to stay with my son in Minsk. I had to leave my six year-old daughter with her granny in Georgia. My son is only 8 years old. Before he became ill he was a very happy little boy but now he is miserable because he understands that for him to be cured we need money that we don’t have. sponsor this child 

Now aged two and-a-half, was abandoned in the street in January 2005. He was found naked in the snow - his little feet were frozen.

He suffers from liver cancer ( the tumour is twice the size of his liver). He underwent chemotherapy and had an operation in December 2005.

At the moment after leaving the hospital an orphanage for children up to age 3 in the little town of Pinsk. Our association has been supporting him for several months and we feel we cannot abandon him. We keep in touch with the orphanage, which has basic needs such as nappies, hygiene products, clothes, food, toys, etc.

Alina has found sponsors !

(age 2) suffers from lukemia. His mother, abandoned by her husband, lives with her three children and has no financial resources whatsoever.

(age 9) suffers from lukemia. Her mother is an alcoholic. She has 7 brothers and sisters who are left to look after themselves. Svieta’s mother has not once been to visit her at the hospital since the beginning of her intensive chemotherapy treatment. Thanks to one of her sisters she has been able to have a bone marrow transplant. Svieta longs to be loved by someone !

Svieta has found sponsors!

OLEG SEBIKHOV (age 16) has a brain tumour and is in a serious state. The treatment has not made any difference so far and he is very despondent. Our association gave his mother a gift of 200 € with which she was able to go to Moscow to buy medication for his own chemotherapy treatment and that of three other children.

Oleg has found sponsors!

YULIA PATIEVSKAYA

(age 12) has had cancer of the kidneys since 1999. Yulia and her mother are very special people because, in spite of their trials, they encourage and support the other children and their parents in their fight against illness. They wish to give all those of you who wholeheartedly support the children this gift:  a poem, written by little Yulia Patievskaya. Throughout her illness she has never given up hope. We think this poem will go straight to your heart !

Mummy and Daddy have grown old, I can read the sadness in their eyes. Why is it not possible, just once, To relive each and every detail of the past ? What have we done wrong ? Mummy and Daddy, don’t be sad, Today I have decided to persevere and pray for everyone  with all my heart And your sadness will disappear. The angel is above, we are here on Earth. Our lives don’t belong to any of us. And yet there are so many things that tempt us that we can’t even count them. Life is beautiful because I am still down here on Earth. I feel the pain and I can tell you what is able to silence it : Open The Book and read a passage from it Believe what you read – and you will be blessed.   When you are feeling the cold, when you tremble take hold of the Testament. In it you will find neither pain nor poverty. Sing a psalm, read a verse, Don’t waste time, You will find life a little brighter. Open the Word, bless all those around you Take the road to eternal Life That leads straight to Paradise.