Dear friends:
Summer is at its height but Children’s Hospice has much work as always.
Hospice physicians regularly check up all our patients. These check-ups are especially important for our young patients living in distant districts of the Leningrad region.
Our Patients in the Leningrad Region
During our trips to the Leningrad region we revealed a couple of important problems.
Firstly, there are not enough medical specialists such as neurologists, orthopedists and others in some towns and villages. If a child needs to be counseled, we bring him to St. Petersburg or deliver him to Central Regional Hospital.
Another problem is that people living in the region have difficulty obtaining hygiene articles and rehabilitation equipment through public social services. Children’s Hospice provides every child with all necessary medications and medical care products. For example, we purchase specially equipped wheelchairs for children with disorders of the central nervous system.
Our physical therapist can help parents select and acquire rehabilitation equipment, orthopedic shoes, corsets and braces. At our regular monthly check-ups, the prescriptions are being adjusted. Our nurses provide preventative medical assistance and teach parents to care for their children.
Very often, children being treated in a public hospital need some expensive medical equipment. Not long ago we purchased a medical port for chemotherapy and antiemetics for Nastya S. The number of our patients continues to grow, and in July we took in several new children.
We Express our Sorrow
This month we lost two more girls; Alice L. and Maria P. passed away. We express our sorrow to their friends and family, and we grieve together with them.
Our Volunteers
In this issue of our bulletin, we‘d like to tell you about a new project of our volunteers.
Everything began several months age as our volunteer Nadezhda F. suggested that we show
animated cartoons in the Oncological Research Institute. Since that time, they have been showing cartoons in the children’s department every Tuesday.
At the same time, we had the idea of creating animated cartoons together with children. Every Saturday we have been arranging exercises. Children are told about secrets of animation and then they draw fairy-tale characters and compose a story which will be a screenplay for a future animated cartoon. After that they create a soundtrack for it.
The children are being supported by professional animators from a famous St. Petersburg
cartoon studio.
Everybody likes these exercises so much that our volunteers are ready to come to Oncological Research Institute twice a week.
The beneficial influence of creativity on man’s mental and physical condition has been known for a long time. At the children’s department of Oncological Research Institute, our employees and volunteers carry out many various creative activities: children together with their mothers draw, model, make dolls and appliqué and create animated cartoons. We are sure that the feeling of self-confidence and pleasure from making something with their own hands will help the children to struggle against severe disease and not to lose heart. In the beginning, our teach was proposing different exercises butnow children take the lead in it more and more often.
Equine Therapy
In July we resumed our visits to the Horse Rehabilitation Center “Dar” (“Gift”). Rema
rkable, devoted and self-sacrificing people work in this remarkable place.
The employees of “Dar” care for ill, injured and old horses.
Coming to this place one understands that this is a place where horses are really loved and where people try to understand them and to share their love and interest in these animals with other people. Specifically with this purpose there have been organized free lessons for children at this Center.
They explain to children how destructive the traditional horse sports and the horse-training are and how long they need to rehabilitate a horse after cruel treatment by humans. Horses in the Center are astonishingly calm, kind and affectionate.
The center’s employees invented a large program where they sing songs, play a quizzing game and serve refreshments for our patients. After that, the children visited stalls, got acquainted with Dar’s inhabitants and fed them apples.
Dreams Come True
With the help of our friends we were able to fulfill cherished wishes for several children:
We purchased a big TV with a plasma screen for Christina C. It is a little bit large for her little room but the girl was very happy to receive it because she had dreamt of such a TV for a long time.
We arranged a helicopter flight and several days later a trip by a motor boat for Nikita S. The opportunity to look at the city from a height and to experience that inexpressible feeling of flight does always delig
ht children. Unfortunately, Nikita felt ill on that day. Nevertheless he liked the flight.
But he found great pleasure in the motor boat trip. Nikita steered the boat by himself and he was an excellent helmsmen.
Our Employees
Hospice doctors and nurses have been visiting our patients living in the Leningrad region for
more than a year. Their work is coordinated by Mikhail G. Malinin. Mikhail is able to establish contact with even the most complicated and distrustful parents.
Apart from his own specialty – pediatrics – he has good knowledge of many various fields of medicine and he is always able to form a correct estimate whether a therapy and other doctor’s orders to a child are correct.
We have shared our small successes and achievements with you and told about things which our employees face every day. We hope what you have read touches your heart and soul. Please share this feeling with your friends and send this newsletter to some of them. If any questions arise, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Yours faithfully,
Fr. Alexander Tkachenko, Children’s Hospice, July 2008
Detski Hospis/Children’s Hospice
Summer is at its height but Children’s Hospice has much work as always.
Hospice physicians regularly check up all our patients. These check-ups are especially important for our young patients living in distant districts of the Leningrad region.
Our Patients in the Leningrad Region
During our trips to the Leningrad region we revealed a couple of important problems.
Firstly, there are not enough medical specialists such as neurologists, orthopedists and others in some towns and villages. If a child needs to be counseled, we bring him to St. Petersburg or deliver him to Central Regional Hospital.
Another problem is that people living in the region have difficulty obtaining hygiene articles and rehabilitation equipment through public social services. Children’s Hospice provides every child with all necessary medications and medical care products. For example, we purchase specially equipped wheelchairs for children with disorders of the central nervous system.
Our physical therapist can help parents select and acquire rehabilitation equipment, orthopedic shoes, corsets and braces. At our regular monthly check-ups, the prescriptions are being adjusted. Our nurses provide preventative medical assistance and teach parents to care for their children.
Very often, children being treated in a public hospital need some expensive medical equipment. Not long ago we purchased a medical port for chemotherapy and antiemetics for Nastya S. The number of our patients continues to grow, and in July we took in several new children.
We Express our Sorrow
This month we lost two more girls; Alice L. and Maria P. passed away. We express our sorrow to their friends and family, and we grieve together with them.
Our Volunteers
In this issue of our bulletin, we‘d like to tell you about a new project of our volunteers.
Everything began several months age as our volunteer Nadezhda F. suggested that we show
animated cartoons in the Oncological Research Institute. Since that time, they have been showing cartoons in the children’s department every Tuesday.At the same time, we had the idea of creating animated cartoons together with children. Every Saturday we have been arranging exercises. Children are told about secrets of animation and then they draw fairy-tale characters and compose a story which will be a screenplay for a future animated cartoon. After that they create a soundtrack for it.
The children are being supported by professional animators from a famous St. Petersburg
cartoon studio.Everybody likes these exercises so much that our volunteers are ready to come to Oncological Research Institute twice a week.
The beneficial influence of creativity on man’s mental and physical condition has been known for a long time. At the children’s department of Oncological Research Institute, our employees and volunteers carry out many various creative activities: children together with their mothers draw, model, make dolls and appliqué and create animated cartoons. We are sure that the feeling of self-confidence and pleasure from making something with their own hands will help the children to struggle against severe disease and not to lose heart. In the beginning, our teach was proposing different exercises butnow children take the lead in it more and more often.
Equine Therapy
In July we resumed our visits to the Horse Rehabilitation Center “Dar” (“Gift”). Rema
rkable, devoted and self-sacrificing people work in this remarkable place.The employees of “Dar” care for ill, injured and old horses.
Coming to this place one understands that this is a place where horses are really loved and where people try to understand them and to share their love and interest in these animals with other people. Specifically with this purpose there have been organized free lessons for children at this Center.
They explain to children how destructive the traditional horse sports and the horse-training are and how long they need to rehabilitate a horse after cruel treatment by humans. Horses in the Center are astonishingly calm, kind and affectionate.
The center’s employees invented a large program where they sing songs, play a quizzing game and serve refreshments for our patients. After that, the children visited stalls, got acquainted with Dar’s inhabitants and fed them apples.
Dreams Come True
With the help of our friends we were able to fulfill cherished wishes for several children:
We purchased a big TV with a plasma screen for Christina C. It is a little bit large for her little room but the girl was very happy to receive it because she had dreamt of such a TV for a long time.We arranged a helicopter flight and several days later a trip by a motor boat for Nikita S. The opportunity to look at the city from a height and to experience that inexpressible feeling of flight does always delig
ht children. Unfortunately, Nikita felt ill on that day. Nevertheless he liked the flight.But he found great pleasure in the motor boat trip. Nikita steered the boat by himself and he was an excellent helmsmen.
Our Employees
Hospice doctors and nurses have been visiting our patients living in the Leningrad region for
more than a year. Their work is coordinated by Mikhail G. Malinin. Mikhail is able to establish contact with even the most complicated and distrustful parents.Apart from his own specialty – pediatrics – he has good knowledge of many various fields of medicine and he is always able to form a correct estimate whether a therapy and other doctor’s orders to a child are correct.
We have shared our small successes and achievements with you and told about things which our employees face every day. We hope what you have read touches your heart and soul. Please share this feeling with your friends and send this newsletter to some of them. If any questions arise, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Yours faithfully,
Fr. Alexander Tkachenko, Children’s Hospice, July 2008
Detski Hospis/Children’s Hospice
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