Seven sisters of mercy from St. Dmitry school in Moscow have visited Germany from October 19 to 24. The visit took place in the framework of collaboration between the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry of Moscow Patriachate and our diakonia “Good deed”.
The guests from Russia have visited 4 clinics, 3 retirement homes, and a hostpital of Karl Leisner catholic society. All these installations are situated in small towns of Cleves region of North-West Germany. The sisters of mercy from Moscow had an opportunity to work together with local medical personnel and thus to learn the duties of German colleagues from inside. Both sides were satisfied with the exchange of experience that took place, and hope to continue the fruitful cooperation.
18 people were involved in this event and its preparation – those are Diakonia volunteers and our friends from 6 parishes: Dordmund, Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Cleves, Nijmegen and Amsterdam. We thank everybody who helped!
Dear friends!
Some good news in October.
Owing to your efforts and kind hearts, we have manage to completely pay off the treatment Nikita Kucherenko from Nikolaev, 15 years old, cerebral palsy, brain cyst! The boy has already started the rehabilitation. His mother thanks God for sending her child such kind and helpful people!
We also managed to help to pay for the treatment of Olga Sikirnitskoy, 16 years, diagnosed with a spine tumor. This beautiful and strong girl will to the clinic in January to get out of the wheelchair and learn to walk again. Olga thanks everyone who gave her this opportunity!
From the funds collected by you, we have also bought the tickets for the Jana Labunov , a 6-year-old girl from Abakan suffering from complex cardiac disease. In December, she, her mother and grandmother will have to attend the follow-up examination in Germany.
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Dear friends!
Last month, the local Diakonia groups have been taking care of several dozens of patiences. Our volunteers negotiated with clinics, picked up people at the airport, looked for places to stay, guaranteed translations during the period of treatment, supported spiritually, collected money, clothes, goods and food, wrote official letters, helped to prolong visas, to get working permissions, to contact relatives; gathered medications, transported to church, prayed, were by the side until the last minute… Read more
Age: 3 yo.
Residence: Tolyatti, Russia.
Diagnosis:CNS dysfunction, epilepsy.
Needs: treatment with a ketogenic diet.
The child suffers from frequent seizures, which destroy him physically and don’t give him a chance to develop. The parents believe that their child will start walking and talking, playing with other children in the court! Their hope is a treatment with a ketogenic diet course in the German Filderklinik in Stuttgart, where he is welcomed on the 5th of October. The cost of the course is 2765 euros.
Age: 16 yo
Residence: Odessa region
Diagnosis:spinal tumour, scoliosis.
Needs: rehabilitation to be able to walk
Since she was nine years old, Olga has been fighting her tumour. Quite successfully. But after the operation on her spine and installation of a construction the girl stopped walking.
The construction broke, scoliosis developed. In 2015 Olga went through a lucky operation in Germany, after which she was able to sit without pain. Now her life goal is to be able to stand on her legs. The doctors from the German rehabilitation centre are sure that it is possible to achieve that in three months, even though it will be very difficult. The sum asked for by the clinic is 34 045 euros. The deadline is the 28th of September! Sum still left to be collected: 23 801 euros.