Charitable Foundation Zaporuka

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide assistance to seriously ill children and their families. Every day we help seriously ill children hospitalized at the National Institute of Cancer, at the Pediatric Clinic of Neurosurgery and at the Western Ukrainian Specialized Pediatric Medical Center. In 7 years we helped for the total amount of more than 20 000 000 UAH. Almost a third of these funds were used for medicines and medical supplies. We purchased modern equipment for operating rooms and diagnostic laboratories of the hospitals. We renovated an operating room, patient rooms, a kitchen and a game room at the Pediatric Clinic for Neurosurgery, a game room at the Western Ukrainian Specialized Pediatric Medical Center, psychologists' room and physical therapy room at the National Institute of Cancer. We paid for treatment in foreign clinics for four children. We provided more than 20 families with air plane tickets for treatment abroad. Our experts work at the hospitals. We finance the work of psychologists in all the departments that we support and the work of two physiotherapists at the National Cancer Institute. Every day 5-6 families live in our Center for Children Affected by Cancer Dacha. Since opening we have provided free accommodation for about five hundred families. In 2010 we opened a representative office in Lviv which is engaged in the projects related to migration processes in Ukraine.