Health reserve fund – is a UBB project that accumulates money of those people, trusted UBB in decision what project is in acute need more than others.

If you have not decided yet, what project in particular you would like to support; if you hesitate in your choice, what project is more important; or if all of the projects seem to be equally important to you – thus you have complete right to donate for the category.

Dasha will turn 9 years old soon, eight of them, she is struggling with a rare progressive disease of SMA – spinal muscular atrophy. It is the disease that takes a person's ability to walk, stand, sit, eat, and even breathe; it literally eats up muscles. Before Dasha was 1 year and 2 months, like all children, she could squat and stand on her own, bending down and picking up a toy, but now these skills have been lost. Gradually all muscles of the body atrophy, paralysis of the locomotor system, heart and respiration occur.

"Saturation, the level of oxygen in the blood, is 83, and it is ok as long as it remains like that. If it drops to 70, we will go to breathe in the resuscitation department," Ania’s mother briefly explains the situation to us. In my mind’s eye, I see them sitting side by side – mother and red-headed translucent Ania – and they make a decision again and again: is it still possible to endure now or not? Panting, but at home, or breathing freely, but on a hospital bed in the resuscitation department? Beautiful Ania has congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. Recently, the condition began to deteriorate sharply and they had to collect documents in order to stand in line for transplantation. But you need to live before this event. Breathe. 

This is Veronica, and she is special. She has signs of autism, which began to manifest itself not immediately after birth. She is a rain girl. Her world is not the same as in other children, her perception of the environment is unique.

Maxim always says that he'll manage on his own, he says that others have a greater need. He rarely accepts help, and this might be the first time that he actually asks for it. This young man was born with a severe incurable disease and he literally has to fight for each day of his life since the moment of his birth, and this is quite an expensive battle. More often than not, he has to pay for his medicines from his own pocket – the state budget can't afford it, but he cannot postpone his treatments. The next inpatient treatment is scheduled for December, and now Maxim asks to help him cover the cost of IV therapy drugs crucial for his life.