During the autumn holidays, the 16th-20th of October, the Child-Youth centre of “Saint John of Shanghai” in Cologne was hosting another children and youth camp. The coordinators and pedagogues decided to name it “Good Deed” this time and dedicate it to the theme of compassion and support of ill children.
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Dear friends!
Our achievements in October:
We have transferred funds to Vladislav Konovalov, 3 y.o., Brovary town, aplastic anaemia, for mare bone transplant in an Italian hospital.
We have paid to Anna Ionova, 11 y.o., Moscow, ICP, for rehabilitation in a German hospital and for housing in Germany. We have paid to Ivan Kochnov, 4 y.o., Donetsk, ICP, for rehabilitation in Krasnodar, Russia.
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We want to wholeheartedly thank the volunteers from the orthodox Diakonia Good Deed from the city of Cologne. Thank you so much for your help; with our daughter Riana Safargalina we were having an examination in the Asklepios children’s clinic in Sankt Augustin, then the children’s clinic in Cologne, due to changed dates for the hospitalisation and illness of the child we ended up in a very difficult situation, we simply did not expect to stay in Germany for so long. We got help with our visas, moving places, food, money, translations, and everything was done with dedication, we also got picked up and driven back to the airport. Thanks to you we have gone through everything and have returned home. Thank you so much for your kind hearts, for your existence, it is so important in a foreign country to find such kind, communicative, lovely people.
A huge parental thank you, may God give you and your family good health and protect you from misfortune, and give you strength to develop and spread your benevolent work. Please accept our thanks and a low bow! May God protect you!
Safargalin Family
Dear friends!
This is what we achieved in the short month of September.
Andrey Dmitriev, 9 y.o. from Donetsk, spine wound, has completed a rehabilitation course at the Helios clinic and is now able to walk again for the first time since he was wounded. The family went home until the next surgery, scheduled for April, which will remove the metal implants. The Diakonia has paid for their tickets. I would like to thank the community of Berlin who have organized the departure of Andrey.
Diakonia has also partly paid for the rehabilitation of Gleb Kazakov, cerebral palsy, 5 y.o., in Russian center “Sakura”.
Thanks to you, dear friends, we were able to collect and transfer significant funds for the treatment of Sophia Dukasheva, 5. y.o., leukemia, who is waiting for the bone marrow transplantation in Wurzburg hospital. The parents of late Ilya Spinov, for whom we collected funds earlier on this summer, have donated EUR 5,000 for the treatment of Sophia. I would also like to thank the Regensburg group who raised funds for Sophia at the autumn charity bazaar.
We have donated funds for medicine to Volyn orphanage.
We have collected the funds for rehabilitation of Vanya Kochnov, 4 y.o., cerebral palsy, from Donetsk.
The autumn charity ball in Berlin, which was organized by our local group, turned out to be very successful. Around 800 euros have been raised.
Our children for october:
A charity ball on behalf of Diankonia has been held in Berlin on October 2.
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We have raised EUR 760 for Diakonia care-receivers.
Review of a gest:
The ball in Berlin, the ball of autumn!
It was so much to see!
One cannot find enough praising epithets for this ming-blowing event! I want to thank all gathered as well as everybody separately for a creation of such, I’m tempted to say, unearthy athmosphere! That has been a time jump! World-known compositions have been performed with flute and saxophone. What a terrific beginning it was: chello and J.S. Bach. Later, we have been whirled in eddies of gipsy spirit. And dancing, dancing, dancing till late into night.
A ball is a really special event, great of scale for any time. Yet his main component are us, those who have organized, brought through, and performed this event with a lot of positive emotions! I am flattered to be a part of it! Thanks to you and a deep bow – that we have learned at the ball in a folk Russian dance.
Irina Letaeva