Dear UBB Donors, meet Lida. She's been through a lot, including betrayal of a loved men, when, after learning about the pregnancy still quite young leads, "beloved" had left her alone with the problems. A baby girl was raised by Lida and her parents. Gradually life was getting better, Lida married. Happy parents expecting the birth of they second child, when she felt ill. Weakness, cough, temperature. Lida went to doctors, but they all blamed on pregnancy and "promised" that after birth everything goes. 

Anastasiia is the only child in mother Irina. She brings up her daughter alone. Since childhood, the girl was sick for a long time, and for this reason, she did not attend kindergarten. Only the first 3 months she went to her first grade. And then viral, bacterial infections, exacerbation of pyelonephritis began... In April, the temperature rose to 40.1C, severe pains appeared in the abdomen and joints, lower back. From touching the skin, huge hematomas appeared, a small point rash appeared. There was gum bleeding. In the ambulance carriage, the girl was taken to the hospital of the Kramatorsk Children's Hospital, and from there she was urgently sent by sanitary aviation to Kharkiv in the hematology department with suspicion of acute leukemia. 

Liubov Mikhailivna has been working all her life. She grew up in a large family. Her parents raised six children, Lyuba was the second child. They worked hard then: father was a tractor driver, and the mother was in a garden team. Liuba studied perfectly, but the family did not have enough funds to study, and after graduation, the girl entered a cooking course in the city of Korets. She graduated from them and worked all her life as an assistant cook. "I am very sorry, that I have no education", the woman says. And then she got married and gave birth to two children: first a son, then a daughter. Children grew up, left their parental home, went to study, later created their families.  

Vika is only 5 years old. This baby fell ill at the end of 2018. Her leg started to hurt. The mother with daughter went to the hospital at the place of residence, the doctor wrote out an ointment. The pain in the leg was gone. But after a while, they came back. Again the foot was smeared with ointment and again the pain was gone. When, for the third time, the mother and her daughter went to the hospital, the girl was sent for an x-ray. The picture showed bone enlightenment. Vika was diagnosed with "fibrous dysplasia" and sent to Lysychansk in a children's regional hospital. Upon arrival in Lysychansk, the doctor examined the child and said to come in six months, they say, it will be possible to pass. And two weeks later, a foot pain reappeared and the mother and Vika got together again and went to Lysychansk.  

In November 2018, Kyivstar, together with the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace, launched the project “Children's Hope” to help children with heart and cancer diseases in Ukrainian hospitals.

When Artem was only two years old, his mother died, and his father abandoned his parenting responsibilities. Thus, the boy’s grandma became his mom and dad. Despite the hardships, Artem went to school; he was smart and cheerful. However, one day on holidays everything changed. Weakness, drowsiness, lack of interest in favorite activities – these are the Artem’s days now. It turned out that the brain tumor caused it. And now the boy is fighting for his life. 

Hryhorii Ivanovich is from a large rural family in which there were four children. His parents were not strong, thе father was a disabled person of the 1st group war, his mother was also disabled. They lived poorly, hard and worked hard. And when a pimple appeared on a boy’s leg, no one even paid attention. To go to the hospital far and there was no time. They went to the hospital only when suppuration had already begun. The guy was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and his leg was operated on twice. 

Galina Stepanovna worked all her life as an accountant. Born in the village of Volkoshov, Rivne district, into a large family, she spent her childhood in poverty that was widespread at that time. Her father was an invalid of the war, and with her mother has long been left this world. Subsequently, she graduated from a vocational school in Rivne and married. Her husband worked as an agronomist and constantly moved. Therefore, Galina Stepanovna followed him. "Where there is a husband, there is a wife", the woman thought then. But, unfortunately, the husband passed away at the age of 58 years old. Two years ago, Galina Stepanovna was hospitalized. 

Sanka Ostrovsky, like many boys, has a lot of his innermost desires. Starting from modern models of cars, designers and picture books, to travel to distant lands. And, despite the fact that Sasha has cerebral palsy and bilateral relative deafness, he does not consider himself to be any special and confidently communicates with peers and friends. Almost confidently... For complete happiness, he lacks just learning to speak. To respond with the same sharp jokes to jokes of children, to discuss the last cool cartoon and in the morning say: "Good morning, mother!". 

Misha Nikolayenko from Sumy region for his seven years took more antibiotics and other pills than another person in his life. And all because Misha was born with a rare disease that deprived him of any immunity. Any virus or infection "clings" to Misha instantly and is then treated long and hard. What he just did not hurt over the years. Medicaments, injections, droppers, and sometimes operations are constant companions of his childhood, inextricably linked with hospitals. So in October last year, the little boy was again in the children's ward, now with lymphadenitis. Doctors operated on the lymph node.