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Foundation for Development of Ukraine Helps Prepare Children for School

The Foundation for Development of Ukraine organized a celebration for children being brought up in family-type orphanages of Donetsk oblast to mark 1 of September - the Day of Knowledge. All in all, Donetsk oblast runs 11 family-type orphanages with 98 children. The event was held under the project "Foster Care Promotion and Family Building"....

Donetsk Hospital Receives Unrivaled Equipment for Most Accurate Diagnostics

By Yulia Tkachenko Donetsk Regional In-Patient Territorial Medical Association (DOKTMO) has received unrivaled laboratory equipment. No other state-run hospital in Ukraine can boast of similar facilities. The equipment was donated to the diagnostic center by the Foundation for Development of Ukraine under the program “Cancer Can...

The Day of Onco-Saviour in Donetsk

By Nina Rykova The sign was not at all accidental. A legendary surgeon-rescuer and the Hero of Ukraine Hrihoriy Bondar (showing no emotions in public) suddenly said to hundreds of his colleagues and journalists “I’ve worked her so long but seen this for the first time ever!”. The cancer doctor shared his feelings on...

Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine to Train Doctors in Social Studies and Journalism

Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine together with the National University of Kiev Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) launch Mass Communications program to train doctors in social studies and journalism. According to Korrespondent.net, the project expects to establish an unrivalled doctoral program that will help the education...

Does Ukrainian Government Ignore Children TB?

By Bohdana Prikhodko Children TB in Ukraine is still a burning problem. According to official statistics, the total number of TB infected teenagers and pre-school children fell down in 2007. But it’s too early for optimistic outlooks as TB aggravates every year endangering life and health of children under four. Taking the...

Tears Over TB

By Svetlana Gollands Statistics are shocking. TB prevalence in Ukraine is much higher than in many other East European countries. Other infections do not account for such a high mortality rate even if put together. These days every year registers 38-40 thousand of new TB infected and kills 10-11 thousand people.  No mercy to...

“I will Take Care of Every Cancer Dispensary – Rinat Akhmetov

When meeting the staff of Donetsk Regional Tumor Center, Rinat Akhmetov announced he would increase investments to refit and renovate the facility by UAH 155m. As Foundation for Development of Ukraine informed Korrespondent.net, the total budget provided by the Foundation to eliminate cancer in Donbass “now comes up to UAH 215m, with...

Echoes of Disaster in Yenakiyevo (Golos Donbassa)

By Olga Stadnichenko Source: Ukraine: Golos Donbassa Weekly Newspaper, Published on 07 August, 2008. Twelve miners were killed by the explosion at Karl Marks Mine (owned by Ordzhonikidzugol) on 8 June. Only one miner has been buried so far, while eleven are listed as dead. Obstructions clearing and water pumping have been conducted for...

The Value of Good Deeds

By Valeriy Kostyukevich, Den Newspaper №142, Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 http://www.day.kiev.ua/205890/ When President Viktor Yushchenko initiated the launch of Warming a Child with Love, which is a joint project being realized by the government businesses, it was quite obvious that the success would depend on the financial support...

Nikolay Paliychuk – Extremely Much Money Needed To Renovate Infrastructure to the Pre-Flood Level

UAToday.net 4 August, 2008 12:38 Source Ukraine Today Broadcast Review, Channel 5 http://uatoday.net/rus/article/comment/47806 Ivano-Frankovsk Region has recently seen the complete meaning of the word “high water”. The area suffered the most from the flood. Governor Nikolay Paliychuk told Channel 5 what has been done in...