Cancer Kids Ukraine

Irene was hospitalized to the oncohematology department in July 2008. As soon as I found out that she was an orphan, I went to see her. Irene turned our to be a shy 15-year-old girl. Although she was very sociable, she didn’t ask me for anything. It is very weird for a child who is being raised at the orphanage. Irene was diagnozed with osteoblastic sarcoma. I don’t know how she was able to get over it but I know that she was crying a lot before she had to leave for Kiev for her first block of chemotherapy. When she came to Kiev again for the second block, she was very pale, skinny, and weak. After the chemotherapy was completed, she started getting better little by little.

Irene doesn’t like staying in her own ward. She is usually out visiting one child or another. Probably, she is lacking the mother’s love and care. And the mothers of other children look after her as much as they can. Irene has completed two blocks of chemotherapy. She will need several more blocks and then an examination in Kiev. She needs help in purchasing the medications for the chemotherapy and supporting therapy. She needs your help because she doesn’t have anybody else who could possibly help her. She was taken away from her alcoholic parents two years ago.

Since Irene doesn’t have parents, if may reach the volunteers looking after her at +38 067 430 5683 (Alexander) or +38 067 855 6360 (Julia)