This is how the youngest cancer patients at the beginning of treatment sometimes react even to us - the volunteers... We see the children's eyes running and frightened, the desire to hide and forget forever about the terrible disease... Forget about the punctures, chemotherapy and the walls of the room, which replaced their home... To forget,…
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
