Children stories
ANNA_MARIA, 5 years old.
Congenital anophthalmia in both eyes.
Anna-Maria is a wonderful girl who changes lives of those around her. Right after she was born, she was examined by ophthalmologists in Lvov and Kyiv, and they diagnosed her with congenital anophthalmia in both eyes. To keep the symmetry of the face, formation of the eye sockets, and eyelid functions, she is in need of regular eyeball prosthetics. After long discussions, we chose a surgery clinic in Poland to perform a series of 7 surgeries with variant of self-expanding type of eye implants.
They have already performed 5 surgeries. The total cost of the remaining surgeries, travel costs, and accommodation is $13,000.
Anna-Maria has low muscles tone, which prevents her from holding her head up, sitting, and walking on her own. Because of this, she needs a long-term assistant and a proper rehabilitation.
Anna-Maria and her mother are currently in Poland, where she will attend rehabilitation courses in Olinek Centrum Intemsywnej Terapii, Warsaw. The initial cost of the first therapy is $800. She needs to take special developmental classes, including swimming. The cost of these classes is $145 per month.
VLADIMIR, 14 years old.
Microcephaly, spastic tetra paresis, symptomatic epilepsy.
Vladimir was diagnosed with delay in physical and psychological development at birth, official diagnose was microcephaly, spastic tetra paresis, symptomatic epilepsy.
Vladimir and his family flees from Ukraine to Krinica-Zdrój, Poland there they currently residing. His family is looking for new doctors and a rehabilitation center. After completing the examination at the new center, he will be assigned a rehabilitation course, as well as a new wheelchair.
For daily support, it’s necessary for him to take the anticonvulsant medication- Depaktin.
At the moment we are hoping to collect $600 for the examination and purchase of medication and other necessary daily items.
Diana
Diana was born prematurely at 32 weeks. When she was one year old, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis, deafness, and psychomotor development delay. Treatment for cerebral palsy is an individual process. Diana has a few rehabilitation courses every year. In her last four weeks long rehabilitation course, she focused on workouts, intensive massage to help her relax her body, special gymnastic to help her learn to move properly, ergotherapy to improve sensitivity in her hands and fingers, and workouts in water to relax her body.
Mikhail
Our sculptor, Mikhail is 22 years old. He has central nervous system's lesion and autism. Misha loves to draw and sculps from clay. Misha is very active, loves to paint every day, swims in the pool, and is engaged in volleyball for Paralympic athletes. He also likes to go skiing in the winter and play tennis and badminton in the summer. Together with mother, he enjoys going to the cinema, theaters, museums, and the conservatory. Recently, Misha passed the exams to go to college and is very excited for his new endeavor. We are proud to help Mikhail with his rehabilitation courses and assisting him with professional psychological support.
Maria
Maria is 9 years old and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia. ages. She has successfully passed the rehabilitation course where she has learned to use ski imitation simulator – taking her from just 2-3 steps in the beginning, to 50 steps without stopping in the end. She discovered new physical activity for herself - yoga training, and now practices yoga exercises at home with mother. The biggest pleasure for Maria were speech therapy classes and courses on improving her motor skills. Maria learned a lot of things including how to use buttons of different diameters, tie knots, draw lines, and cut with scissors.
Alexei
Alexei is 17 years old and due to birth trauma, he has been living with central nervous system’s lesion and delay of psycho-speech development. The diagnosis does not prevent him from living an active lifestyle and achieving success in a variety of endeavors. Alexey goes to public school, plays the violin, and engages in pottery. But of all, his favorite hobby is painting, and he takes it very seriously. Alexei adores Van Gogh and prefers to work in the style of post-impressionism. He loves to draw and give away his paintings to his friends and fans.
Success Story
Sonia
Sonia is 11 years old girl with cerebral palsy, spastic tetraplegia, valgus deformity and poor posture. In the past four weeks, she took the rehabilitation course that helped her become much stronger. Sonia learned new words and can now chatter for an hour (much longer than before). She liked the classes on fine motor skills that taught her how to drink from the mug by herself. Sonia began to walk more with support. We are very excited to see her knew skills improve at home in the next 2-3 weeks, after an intensive rehabilitation course.