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!

Our care-receives in May:

Danila Kukarkin, 10 y.o., Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, cerebral palsy. Danila was born prematurely, his lungs did not open, the first three days of his life he lived on ventilation, and suffered ischemia of the second degree. For 10 years, the parents have been fighting for the full life of their son. Danila underwent many surgeries and rehabilitation courses, that brought positive developments. Danila has learned to walk on his own from a support to a support, and take care of himself. Children with cerebral palsy should get rehabilitation courses 3-4 times per year, but the family is not able to pay this expensive treatment. The family has two children, and the parents pay the mortgage and the loans taken for the treatment of their son. In June, the child is expected for the rehabilitation at the Hungarian clinic Olinek. It remains to collect about EUR 2,000.

Sasha Provotorov, 6 years old, Gatchina (Leningrad region), a brain tumor. Sasha has already had two surgeries, each followed by a long and complicated recovery. In Russia, he was refused the treatment for the lack of protocols for treating the relapse of such tumors. They could only offer more surgeries and, eventually, palliative treatment. Such protocols are there in Germany. Upon the recommendation for proton therapy by a professor from the Children’s Oncology Clinic in Essen, the Sasha’s family turned to the Essen Proton Center. The Proton Center has confirmed the need for this treatment, as less obtrusive and suitable for children, and billed them with € 84,000. The large family has raised EUR 20,000, EUR 64,000 remains to be collected.

Daniil and Yaroslav Spiridonov, both 17 years old, Lipetsk, cerebral palsy. From the letter of the mother of these great guys: “My twin boys require the surgery. Their hip joints are being destroyed. Daniil no longer gets out of the stroller. Boys howl at night from pain. Their feet ceased growing and developing. The boys are great at school. Yaroslav likes jurisprudence and linguistics, and Daniil dreams of becoming an IT engineer. In Russia, in the course of such surgeries, they commonly cut the nerves and apply the plaster from the armpits to the tips of the toes directly at the operation table, that remains for a year. As a result of this, children become forever immobilized. We were at the Charité clinic in Berlin for a consultation with a professor who said he could help us sothat the pain will stop and the legs begin to develop. When we returned home, we have received two bills from the clinic: EUR 22,962.00 each. This amount we can not collect. I can not get help from the charity funds. I’ve been fighting for this for a year now. I’m desperate. I can only cry and pray. ”

THE DAY OF THE ORTHODOX VOLUNTEER this year will be on July 6th.
We will meet in Krefeld from July 5 to July 7.
Volunteer’s Day theme in 2019 – New technologies in volunteer work.
We will share our experiences, discuss the current tasks, and establish new contacts. Special attention will be paid to recent technical developments, psychological methods, new concepts and findings. We expect very interesting speakers and guests from different countries and areas of activity.
Anyone who wants to make a contribution to helping one’s neighbor, regardless of experience or affiliation with any organization, can participate in the Volunteer Day. The participation of volunteers of our diaconial groups is strongly desirable!
Additional information and the link to the registration form can be found at our website: https://www.orthodiakonia.de/dv2019/ The registration must be completed before June 10th.

HURRY TO DO GOOD!
I warmly embrace everyone,
Yours Alina Titova