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Helping Ira help others

posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:27 AM

Irina Gavrisheva. Journalist and former patient of children’s hematology ward. Irina writes and publishes website appeals and articles about helping sick children of Zaporozhye, on behalf of the Happy Child fund.

A year ago, director Albert Pavlov spoke out about the neglect, about which he could no longer be silent:

http://www.deti.zp.ua/eng/show_article.php?a_id=5219


Supporter and fundraiser Anne Linden tells Ira's story:

"At thirteen, the chief of the oncology ward in the regional children's hospital had ordered all life supports removed leaving her to die. Her mother watched as she stopped breathing and began turning blue while administering artificial respiration."
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"Thirty minutes later, Ira again began to breathe again. Recovery was slow. Just relearning to read took her a year. Undaunted, Ira eventually graduated from high school and applied to the university where she was denied admission - not for academic reasons but because she was wheel-chair bound."
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"What sets her apart is, however, not her being left to die or even her recovery but what she has managed to accomplish since then. She together with Albert Pavlov founded the Happy Child Foundation. "

http://www.ukraineorphans.net/id96.html.

http://deti.zp.ua/eng/homepages/authors.php.

Ira has recently undergone a hip operation and now needs further surgery to her knee. She helps others and will not hear of raising funds for herself.Hence this request to raise $4000 by April.

On the GiveMeaning website you can vote for Ira's cause

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Comments

Jeff Mowatt

Thursday, March 12, 2009 05:22 PM

After a month, the GiveMeaning campaign was terminated having achieved only 8 of the 100 signatures needed.