Berlin: Our volunteer Nina translates for Masha Laputina.

Masha and our volunteer Sergey

Photos: the festival as seen by our volunteers
On May 19, in Moscow, in the Marfo-Mariinsky convent, the White Flower charity festival has taken place. The orthodox relief service “Miloserdie” has been organizing the festival annually for already 9 years. This year the feast turned out to be the biggest for all years – thousands of Muscovites and city guests have came to the convent, and about 4 million rubles have been collected in total.

This year, in the framework of the interaction between Diakonia and “Miloserdie”, the experts of “Miloserdie” held a number of webinars on technologies and the preparation process of the festival. Three Diaconia volunteers – Elena Palchinskaya from Krefelda, Olga Schmidt from Wiesbaden, Irina Simonova from Berlin – were able to visit Moscow Our volunteers could directly participate in preparing and holding the festival, were in the midst of it. They have learned and seen a lot. Elena Palchinskaya is reporting:
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Our volunteers from Cologne have congratulated the care-receiver Dima Sh. on his birthday. The holiday in the hostel of the Cologne University Clinics was very joyful and interesting. We painted masks, played, and talked. We have managed to fulfill Dima’s dream – to give him as a present the Lego train, which he has assembled immediately .

I congratulate you all with the Luminous Easter! Let us participate in this victory of Life over the death!
Dear friends, in last month we have accepted 20 new requests for help while going on working on the previous ones. Our volunteers organize the search for proper clinics, the arrival to the country, translations of the medical documents, the support of the German funds, and the various assistance on the spot.
Owing to your ongoing support, we were able to help financially to several families, this counts the costs of the flight for urgent kidney transplant surgery to Rosa Knezevic as well as help to pay for the housing and treatment of our care-receivers Abdullina Adelina, 4 years old, leukemia, Alice Terekhova, 13 years old, ganglioglioma relapse, Sofia Dukashova, 8 years old, leukemia.
Thank you for your support and your kind hearts!

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