Little Katya continues to fight sarcoma. Light like as a sun, the girl really wants to go home. But Katya needs to go a long way to recovery. This wonderful girl is already familiar to UBB donors. In August, Katya turned 5 years old, but the mood of the baby is not festive. The little girl underwent two operations: during the first, the enlarged lymph node was removed, and during the second (in July) - the doctors immediately removed the tumor itself. "The second operation was very difficult and difficult," says Katya's mother. Confirmed diagnosis: embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma, very high risk".

For almost a year, Matviy was at the hospital with neuroblastoma: chemotherapies, surgery, stem cell transplantation. Every time his test results allowed, the boy asked his parents one thing: “Let’s go to the airport! I want so much to watch the airplanes!” And now, when the treatment protocol is complete, Matviy himself has to board a plane and go to Italy for MIBG scan. Unfortunately, such an examination is not performed in Ukraine because of the lack of special isotopes. The price is 522 euros, 17 000 UAH, but the family no longer has money to pay for it.

Zelinsky’s family have already asked for the help of UBB donors three times and always received sincere support. But, unfortunately, Sasha needs treatment permanently. Let us remind you that before the terrible poisoning the boy lived well, he studied at the university, met with a girl, was "the soul of the company". He was good at computer programming and believed that it would become his future profession. But things were not so. 

Until recently, this family had two children. The elder – Anechka – and the youngest – Matviichyk. The girl was born with a terrible diagnosis, with which she managed to live for 9 years. Matvii was born when Ania was 4 years old. He was very fond of his sister, called her a princess. Recently his princess died. The disease took away the baby, and with her – the quiet life of her brother. 

This family has a difficult history. Two babies were born ahead of schedule, at 33 weeks. Danylo was born first. But later his development became weaker than his younger brother. At the age of seven months Danylo was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Since this moment periodic rehabilitations began which greatly improve the life and well-being of the child. Unfortunately, 5 years ago the family lost the father-breadwinner. The family is in great need of material assistance for the next rehabilitation. There is very little time left to it. 

Every child has rights for education and safe environment. Dzherelo Children’s Rehabilitation Centre realizes these rights for youth with special needs in Lviv. We want our children to live their best lives and we have been working on it for the last 25 years. We create a comfortable and safe environment for developing children’s skills and improve the quality of their lives. 

Little Nazar was born from the first pregnancy. Despite the normal course of pregnancy, complications occurred during childbirth due to neck wreathe with a too short umbilical cord. Thanks to midwifery, the child was born alive, but in a very difficult condition. Numerous resuscitation measures were carried out. Later Nazar was taken to a resuscitation unit of the Rivne Oblast Children's Hospital. For a long fourteen days, the boy was on the apparatus of artificial life support, and he was given medication therapy. A systematic negligent neurologist in the Rivne Oblast Children's Hospital.

"I am not a boy! I am a girl – Tania!". In the yard, at the playground 4-year-old Tania gets acquainted with a new friend and explains to them why she doesn’t have hair. For more than a year she has been treated for an aggressive form of cancer – 4 stage neuroblastoma. Before like all the other girls she had her hair braided or her mom made her a ponytail. It was not necessary to persuade her to go to the kindergarten, sociable Tania loves to be with other kids. But lately her circle of friends is constantly changing, instead of the kindergarten, she has to be at the hospital. In Poltava and in Kyiv. There she made friends too but they died...

His every day is a day of struggle with a rare and horrible disease. In order to win life, a little Vasyl’ko needs not only daily massage, exercise therapy, and breathing training – even in order to eat, the baby needs help. "Due to the progression of the disease, our boy lost his ability to swallow and is fed only through a probe. Very expensive special nutrition is required for this. We kindly ask all good people to help our son", Vasyl's mother says. And it is necessary to respond immediately, because without probe nutrition the child may die from exhaustion. 

There are 3 children in the Cheberko family. The smallest – Roman – was born before the deadline with a critically low weight (1,250 kg) and a height of 31 cm. Mom bleed, doctors said that the child's brain can live without oxygen for 20 minutes, and Roma stayed without him for 15 minutes. The boy was taken to the intensive care unit, where due to a sharp supply of oxygen, Roma had a cerebral hemorrhage. He was given drugs to dissolve blood, but they did not help. In the skull, cerebrospinal fluid began to gather in the cerebral ventricle, the head began to grow rapidly, the intracranial pressure increased.