Arishka doesn't leave the room and shows no interest in anything - that's what almost all the residents of the oncology ward say about the girl. Arina has astrocytoma. A severe tumor disease, in simple terms. And Arinka is also only six years old. That's the age when children have an inexhaustible supply of energy. Except that…
This phrase is from Chulpan Khamatova's terrific book, It's Time to Punch the Ice. Indeed, when a child in an oncology ward passes away for whom everything seems to have been done, it is a defeat... It is "not a victory". that makes us lose heart... We are powerless in the face of illness and death... These defeats take away our strength and faith... During all the time I was a volunteer, I had several such defeats, and each one was very hard for me to bear. I saw the devastated souls of mothers and the weeping eyes of fathers... And every time I thought, "I didn't do enough, I didn't find out about the baby at the right time. Guilt is what I feel every time a child leaves. But along with that feeling, slowly another came to me. I realized that I was resolutely opposed to children's deaths. So I have to fight to the last man for every little life.
I am often asked one question: "Why do I do charity?
Well, the answer to this question is banality simple - I just want DO NOT DIE CHILDREN.
Head of the Foundation Maria Afanasenko
Created: 05.06.2021
Updated: 05.06.2021
