Mom and dad were waiting for the birth of a long-awaited child. The family has created the best conditions for their little son’s development. But the disease has made its adjustments. Kyrylo is now three years old. The boy spent the whole year with his mom at the hospital fighting the tumor. And now, perhaps, the worst is behind. If the examination in Italy confirms the success of the treatment. Unfortunately, MIBG scanning is impossible in Ukraine because of the lack of necessary isotopes. The price of 15 000 UAH is not very high but not after a year of exhausting therapies. 

He is already tired of fighting his own body... At first – seizures, dizziness, weight gain... Then – paralysis of the limbs, and now the third stroke. His body attacks a systemic lupus erythematosus. And the struggle with him has been going on for several years now. For the 16-year-old Artem Harkavenka, endurance and courage are not empty words. He, a diligent guy, previously professionally engaged in sports - power acrobatics. But now he does not dream of medals and accomplishments. He wants to live... 

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.

In the framework of the project in the direction of Oncology on May,7 2019, the Department of Radiation Diagnostics of the National Cancer Institute was received assistance.

Tiny corpses, wrapped in drops and surrounded by monitors, the least weighing several hundred grams. Their life entirely depends on life support devices, because they often do not breathe and feed themselves only through a probe. It is exactly this way that every day in the intensive care unit of the Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology of Ukraine, dozens of children, who are simply not lucky enough to be born healthy, have a chance to have a full-fledged childhood. Every month at the institute there are 150 infants with developmental defects, 40 of them fall into resuscitation, 15 – with a critically small weight of 500-700 grams. Such children often develop complications after surgery, viral or bacterial infections. Only those who are expensive with antibiotics can control. 

Easter is a holiday of victory of good over evil. So, the kids who are now at the hospitals are fighting against the insidious disease for their lives. Treatment is not interrupted on holidays, and not everyone can go home. Traditionally, each family prepares an Easter basket and a delicious table. One cannot do it in the hospital, and the families have other issues to take care of. However, it would be great to create an atmosphere of a bright holiday in each patient’s room for these days! 

Andryusha is only 9 months old. This is the first and expected child of the spouses Valentine and Elena Domaratsky living in the Chernihiv region. But the joy of the birth of his son gradually overshadowed the problems associated with the health of the baby. “Our joy turned into despair,” the boy’s mother says with a sore heart. Andryusha has a rare disease – primary immunodeficiency, which is confirmed by genetic testing. 

The death of the eldest child rocked Olga and Igor world. And only the appearance of the long-awaited second son restored them to life. Kostia was born very tiny. He weighed about a kilogram, but he has the character of an athlete. From the first days the baby had to fight, but not for sports medals, but for life! Almost two months on artificial ventilation of the lungs, surgery on the intestinal tract, emergency rescue of vision in Kiev – he passed all this, and what is most important – little Kostia survived. The kid felt that the parents simply couldn’t handle losing their second son. 

A graduate of the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of 1965 graduation, Oleksandr Solovei devoted his whole life to military aviation. In his flying career there is both the fighting in Afghanistan and the peaceful sky of our homeland, where Oleksandr conducted the training of cadets. Over the years of service, Colonel Solovei trained and taught a whole generation of future pilots. Flying on subsonic and supersonic airplanes, Oleksandr had an alarming experience of various malfunctions and emergencies in the air, sat on a clean field, but never left the cabin of his aircraft. 

Vera is the mother of two charming children: Artemka is five and a half years old, Yulia is three years old. She is an interesting companion, a wonderful hostess and craftswoman: she loves to cook, bake cakes and pies, sews from bed linen to children's clothes, embroiders with beads. Loves to pick mushrooms and go fishing with her husband. And only relatives know how much effort a woman makes so as not to break... Vera got sick when she was pregnant.

Old age can be very different. Someone spends years on the slope of the years in the circle of relatives and friends who are surrounded by care and care; Someone finds solace and support by communicating and sharing the daily difficulties of an aging being with old friends, friends, neighbors, with whom much has been experienced together for long life. For someone, even when far beyond ..., every day is filled with abundant work and troubles... And there are those old people who envy all of the above-mentioned peers and would have agreed to give a lot to find themselves in the place of one of them: to hear grandson twitches, warm hands daughter or son, sympathetic and understanding the old friend's view, or to ask for a simple economy from morning till evening...