June Fundraising for Yegor

June Fundraising for Yegor

Many our supporters celebrated June 1st, International Children Day (and our 4th anniversary) by participating at different fundraising events.

Some events were local and one-day, like “Oh, To Be a Child Again” in Pleasanton, CA, or Charitable Field Day hosted by SpeakandPlay in Newton, MA, or a special Mozgoboyna (“Brain Breakers”) for kids in Miami, FL. We are also very grateful to all participants of First Family Day “Vmeste” in North Andover, MA who decided to support Podari.Life.

And some event, like Hermiona Education Global Open House - will go on until the end of the month.

Today, we may conclude that June 1st fundraisers already brought up over six thousand dollars.

Thanking all participants, Podari.Life meanwhile asks you for some more help.

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13-years old Yegor Malyar is fighting ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia) for three months now. His chemotherapy is very complex as it requires addressing side effects such as pneumonia and aspergillosis. In order to continue, doctors need to apply Fortecortin medicine (powerful steroid). Yegor needs a course of Fortecortin, and other patients may need it as well. Podari.Life needs your support to meet a goal of $12,700 USD that will buy 200 flacons of the medicine – enough for Yegor’s treatment and other patients for a whole year.

With all donations collected in June as up today, Podari.Life only can cover 1/2 of the cost of vital medication. Let's help Yegor!

If you want to combine a gift of charity with a useful advise on your child's education in the United States or abroad, consider Hermiona Education project. Qualified mentors and counselors will guide you through options and personal education plans on a path to college - for your donation to Podari.Life. 

 
 

International Children's Day and Podari.Life anniversary

International Children's Day and Podari.Life anniversary

We are very happy and proud that our supporters are organizing several events across the country to the benefit of Podari.Life as a celebration of the International Children’s Day. You can still join some of them.

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If you live near San Francisco, CA 

You are cordially invited to “Oh, To Be A Child Again!”, on June 1st at Inklings Coffee & Tea in Pleasanton. Spend the evening with us reliving the carefree charms of childhood –  beloved songs and music, favorite games, delicious desserts, clowns and balloons.

To learn more and join this event check its page. 


If you live near Boston, MA

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In Newton, MA SpeakAndPlay hosts a Charitable Family Field Day with different exciting activities for kids. To learn more, please check their page on Facebook. If you don’t use Facebook, but want to learn more, please contact us at info@podari.life.  

Or you can just join everyone in Auburndale Cove, Newton at 4 pm. (June 1st)

If you live near Miami, FL

A special MozgoBoynya (“Brain Breakers”) for kids. If you want your kid to participate, just join everyone at SPORTACademy, registration fees are your donation to Podari.Life. 



WORLDWIDE:

And during the whole month of June “Hermiona Education” gives a series of consultation sessions with experienced mentors on the subject of education and professional self-realization. You can take part in them either online or in person in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Moscow (Russia). All proceeds from this event will go directly to the Podari.LIfe for the treatment and support of children with cancer. 

Here is the link to register for this session. 

Anya Sorokina: Blood Sister

Anya Sorokina: Blood Sister

Long time ago Olga and Alexei dreamt of having a child, but since then they’ve found themselves with five: 19-year-old Anya, 13-year-old Sasha and Georgi, 12-year-old Masha and 10-year-old Sonya. And everything changed for them the day when Anya was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, one of the worst bone marrow diseases.
And Sasha became her donor

From Hospital Charts to Charts of Victories

From Hospital Charts to Charts of Victories

Lera Abakumiva, whose treatment was supported by Podari.Life, has shown impressive results at the Winners Games, an international sports competition for young cancer survivors. Lera won the gold medal in walking. Moreover, she got 9th place out of 30 in swimming and scored 38.8 points out of 50 in shooting competition.

Corporate matching programs

Corporate matching programs

Corporate gift-matching programs is a great way to help charity causes, including Podari.Life!
Employees of corporations as large as Google, Apple, Microsoft, TripAdvisor, NVIDIA GeForce, Intel, and many others joined in 2017 and this year, significantly increasing our capacity to help fight childhood cancer in Russia and other former Soviet states. So - don't miss out.
Podari.Life was added to several major workplace giving platform! 
We have been members of  Benevity and Bright Funds. Recently we joined YourCause. Check out whether your employer works with one of these platforms and therefore matches (usually doubles) a donation you may administer within your corporate ERM.

You can choose a charity you plan to support from the list (we hope to be the one!), and your donation – one-time or recurring) is being matched by the employer. Please, check the list of the charities supported by your employer. 
Our EIN is 47-4165470. 
(It might be useful even if you don't find us, just enter our EIN to add us to to the list).

Lera goes to Winners Games.

Lera goes to Winners Games.

Just two months ago, thanks to you, Lera had her endoprosthesis fixed, and now she is coming to the Winners’ Games right away after her treatment. She arrived from Germany to Russia on July, 28, right a few days before the Winners’ Games opening.

Lera's mother Tatiana thanks the supporters of Podari.Life for covering the girl’s treatment and says that the surgery and rehabilitation went successfully, and Lera is getting well. Of course, we are very proud of Lera Abakumova and wish her and other Winners Games’ participants to gain their best results in sports, though all of them are already the winners. All children, participating in the Winners Games, have already won their battle with cancer.

We invite you to support young cancer survivors watching highlights of the Winners’ Games on a live webcast on www.odnoklassniki.ru.

Children helping children

Children helping children

On the International Children’s Day Concert music students in  New York participated in an annual non-competitive performance that became a fundraiser to benefit Podari.Life.

Virtual Money = Real Help

Virtual Money = Real Help

It's been only four months since we started accepting donations in cryptocurrency and the results are really amazing. More than 175 Bitcoins have been donated to Podari.Life to the moment!  

But the most important thing is that virtual money have already become real help. We are ready to tell you the stories of those whose treatment has been financed with the help of the bitcoins you donated! These are only three stories, but in fact your help gives dozens of chances for recovery. 

Thank You and Happy New Year!

Thank You and Happy New Year!

Thank you very much for being with us during this year. Your help and support provided us with a chance to make more than you think. We were able not only accomplish all of the initial goals for 2017, but exceed them and address larger causes than expected.

 

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Besides subscription to different scientific journals (2017 and 2018) and ongoing support to academic exchange between Russian and American doctors, you helped Podari.Life to raise money to enlarge medical libraries with contemporary manuals, disease atlases and reference books - while they have very particular cost, they are a priceless piece of knowledge so necessary to provide Russian children with diagnostics and treatment. Podari.Life also - with you kind support - bought and delivered to Russia 15 “Giraffes”, special suction machines designed for kids.

But this is not all: this year we were able to buy some important medications i.e. Kidrolase that will help 18 kids fighting specific form of cancer at Dima Rogachev Pediatric Hospital.

In November  we also started to accept donation in bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. That was an amazing success! Our anonymous donors gave us more than 86 bitcoins! We believe that it is a huge opportunity for us to stand up for larger causes, providing funding and assistance in fighting childhood cancer in Russia and other former Soviet republics.

For all our three charities, Russian "Podari Zhizn" Foundation, UK-based "Gift of Life" and "Podari.Life" this year was a display of a miracle of your generosity. On behalf on those who need your help and support we condone our wholehearted thanks to you for your effort to make the world a better place. We also hope you continue to support us, and we are short in words to say how much we appreciate your trust.

I hope to provide you soon - sometime in January - with our plans for 2018 and further updates regarding Podari.Life development. Undoubtedly, we have bigger goals and tougher challenges ahead, but I want to reiterate: with you, we are convinced to succeed!

Happy New Year 2018! I hope we’ll be together.

Sincerely yours,
Lelia Shergova

Do you love Boston as we do?

Do you love Boston as we do?

And do you know that getting to know your favorite city can become a life-saving event?


Mass We Are - Наш Массачусетс is a group for people who moved to Boston from Russia. Members of this group went on a date with Boston and decided to grant all the money paid for this wonderful excursion to our charity.
The walk started at Quincy Market and covered all the most interesting spots of North End.
The excursion touched upon historical and cultural background of our city. It became a great chance to get to know different Boston and fall in love with it again.
We are very grateful to all the participant for this decision to support our charity and we believe that is is a start to a great, life-saving tradition.

I thought it would be cool to end up so far from home. The illness couldn’t be that scary.

I thought it would be cool to end up so far from home. The illness couldn’t be that scary.

17-year-old Seryozha Sergeev, a former patient of Podari Zhizn and a cancer survivor, had to battle his illness twice. The first time, he didn’t take it seriously; he was too young to understand what he had to deal with. At six years old, the illness, the hospital, and the city of Moscow— all of it seemed like one big adventure. But when it came back, things went very different. Seryozha didn’t want to undergo one more treatment, and he didn’t have much strength for it either. Today, eleven years after he had first become ill, Seryozha tells us his story.