Podari Zhizn Foundation

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О проекте

Podari Zhizn Foundation founded in 2006 by actresses Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova. The mission of the Podari Zhizn charitable foundation is to help chil-dren suffering from serious blood diseases get the treatment they need.

The Foundation has helped more than 73,000 children since its inception. All programs of the Foundation are aimed at protecting the interests of children and their right to timely assistance. Objectives of the Foundation include raising funds for medical treatment and rehabilitation of children suffering from oncological and hematological diseases; provision of assistance to oncological and hematological clinics where children and young adults are treated; attraction of public attention to the problems of diseased children; promotion of voluntary blood donation; provision of social and psychological assistance to diseased children; assistance to volunteer groups working at paediatric oncological clinics. The Foundation also has two partner foundations, Gift of Life in the United Kingdom and Podari.Life in the United States. The Foundation performs tremendous work not only to provide direct assistance to children suffering from diseases, but also a great deal of social work - which is reflected in legislative initiatives, donor engagement, work with hospitals, support for parents, and assistance in foreign medicines import. The programs are funded only by private donations and business assistance. 

The most large-scale project implementation of which was assisted by Kairat Sovetayevich is the purchase of a tomotherapy machine for the Dmitriy Rogachev Children's Hematology Center.  The tomotherapy apparatus makes it possible to deliver radiation therapy most precisely to any body part. This technology is rare and exotic in Russia, but its effect is tremendous. The apparatus costs $5.6 million. 

Moreover, several years ago Kairat Boranbayev helped two teenagers from Kazakhstan, Katya Lyumanova and Oleg Borovchenko, to receive treatment in Moscow at the Blokhin Oncology Center as part of his cooperation with the Foundation. Both teenagers were provided with the necessary assistance and are alive now.

During the decade from 2011 to 2021 active participation of Kairat Sovetayevich gave to Gift of Life Sister Foundation charitable donations. These donations helped to finance the development of Foreign Medicines Program - payment for advanced medicines that are not available in Russia. This Foundation has helped more than 520 patients of Russian clinics by paying for medicines, obtaining and delivering bone marrow cells from donors of foreign registries, and covering the costs of surgeries performed with the participation of foreign specialists.