Help cancer patients in Russia

In the first 4 months of this year we conducted over 150 events with half of them done online. As COVID restrictions are going away we started conducting more events offline. Our focus this year is to support further our regional offices in Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Orenburg and Samara as well as to collaborate more with oncology hospitals and centers. 

Our program has 3 main areas of support: professional psychological support, emotional support and informational support. This year we put greater focus on informational support and work with more oncology hospitals to educate personnel and patients on the importance of psychological state during treatments. We are now official partners with 2 oncology hospitals in Moscow, with 1 oncology center in Samara and 1 in Voronezh. Moreover, we are in discussions with more oncology centers to form more partnerships and to support people who are going through treatments. 

As part of our professional psychological help we continue offering psychological support groups meeting every week, art therapy and individual therapy. Currently we have 9 psychologists working with us on pro bono and in the first 4 months of this year we were able to conduct 70 sessions for individual therapy for 26 recipients. Moreover, we now have psychological support groups for relatives of oncology patients that meet bi-weekly.

Our regional offices in Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Samara, and Orenburg continue having various events stretching from psychological support groups to art therapy, yoga classes and event swimming competitions. 

Thank you as always for all your contributions. Your support was an incredible help and we hope to continue sharing amazing results with you throughout 2023.

We hope everyone is having a great start to 2023 and happy to look back at everything that was accomplished in 2022. We’d like to wish everyone a very happy 2023 and a good health to all of you.

We are proud that we were able to continue operations of our Fund and to maintain the level we were able to achieve in the last few years with all your help. As in the previous year, we conducted over 350 events in 2022 and were able to help over 400 people despite what is happening in this part of the world... In fact, our help is needed more than ever. Our recipients cannot put cancer on hold, they have to continue treatments and find the internal strength and psychological support to continue on their journey.

In the last 4 months we conducted over 100 events with over 70 done online so that we can help our recipients wherever they are at the moment. The cities that were most active at the end of 2022 were Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Moscow, and Orenburg. Yaroslavl carried out multiple events offline dedicated to rehabilitation, had informational sessions with dietitian and psychologist, conducted art therapy. Voronezh had multiple classes of art therapy and Orenburg started an additional offline group for psychological support. 

Our online presence continues offering multiple master classes in culinary and art, yoga and dancing classes, art therapy and groups for psychological support. We were able to start an additional group for relatives and loved ones of the cancer patients.  

Thank you as always for all your help and support that allows us to continue our work. The results of 2022 are really incredible. We are looking into 2023 with a hope for positive changes.

Links:

• Flashmob dance across multiple cities in support of those going
• Local Yaroslavl news translating TV tower in pink