Nastenka Fund: Children with cancer in Russia
In a country without health insurance and where government funds are limited there are many desperately ill children whose parents can do nothing to help those that are most precious to them.

Mama Bulkin decided to act and make a difference.  What you read here are the results of her fundraising efforts together with new cases needing help which sadly arise all the time.

Click the title bar to enter the Nastenka Fund website 

-> Published using HitRSS.com]]> http://nastenka.ru/ http://nastenka.ru/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:03:05 GMT HittRSS FREE RSS Feed Publishing Service at http://HitRSS.com http://www.hitrss.com/logo/hitrss.png Powered by HitRSS.com FREE RSS Publishing Service http://www.HitRSS.com 144 31 en Nastenka Fund Zulfigar Nabiev http://blogs.hitrss.com/mamabulkin/d1f21a2--zulfigar-nabiev It is quite unusual that we would have so much trouble raising money
for a particular child that is so sick. In the 15 days since we told
Zulfigar's story in the LiveJournal community user="nastenka_fund
(our primary fundraising site) has been able to raise only $173 out
of the $1400 that is needed to pay for the next round of
chemotherapy.

Very often in private correspondence and less often in comments are
a response to a post about a child people ask me what the parents of
a particular child did to assist in his recovery. Sometimes I get
mad, other times I recognize it as a legitimate question. If you are
asking for my help, I want to know what you did to help yourself.

In this particular case Zulfigar's family did everything. They sold
their house in Azerbaijan, they borrowed 10,000$ from friends and
family (that's a significant sum), they came to another country
where treatment is available. But cancer is unpredictable. Zulfigar
had a relapse.

The family has no more money. They have no home in Azerbaijan or in
Russia. They have a very sick son and two daughters at home being
cared for by grandmothers.

If you want to help in any way you can write to me at
mamabulkin@gmail.com


thank you
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Published using FREE HitRSS]]> Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:20:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/mamabulkin#rss2 Grassroots Charity Drive Organizers Bear Gifts of Life and Hope http://blogs.hitrss.com/mamabulkin/004116b-grassroots-charity-drive-organizers-bear-gifts-of-life-and-hope Anastasiya Lebedev

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To the jaded internet surfer of today, webpages about sick children needing help are right up there with letters from widows of African dictators and petitions that are supposed to get forwarded to government agencies — you just expect it to be bogus.

In Russia, however, online stories of ailing children or struggling single mothers are likely to be true. What’s more, the help they get from having their story plastered all over the internet is not the 3-pennies-deposited-per-every-email-forward promised by mass mailers at the dawn of internet communications; the people in need of assistance might actually be able to raise the necessary donations for drugs and operations. In Russia, where the severely underfunded healthcare system cannot provide its charges with the necessary medications and procedures, grassroots internet charity drives have helped fund the treatment for many children with terrible ailments or special needs.
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