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Gorbachev Foundation
Humanitarian Aid and Charities:
- DM100,000-worth
equipment for a children's hospital in the village of Krasnogvardeyskoye,
Stavropol Region;
- a mobile clinic (DM200,000) to a hospital in the village of Krasnoarmeyskoye;
- DM50,000-worth intensive care unit equipment for Stavropol regional
hospital;
- medicines, equipment, disposable syringes, food and financial assistance
to maternity homes and orphanages;
- surgery equipment and medicines for the Moscow City Hospital No1 (on
a permanent basis).
- Material aid was
supplied: to war veterans' committees in Moscow and Ufa ($40,000);
- for the development of culture and sports in Russia ($200,000);
- to pay for the athletes' participation in the competitions of disabled
athletes ($45,000);
- the Lagutin Physical Fitness and Sports Foundation ($10,000);
- to the Novy Mir Publishing House and magazine ($12,000).
- The Foundation provided humanitarian aid to the children of Chechnya
who suffered during the hostilities there and to the refugees from the
regions of combat. Ten trailers with clothes, medicines, dressing materials
and baby food were dispatched - 500 tons in total. The latest shipment
was dispatched in January 2000.
- Together with its Dutch partners the Foundation developed and started
implementing its educational program to support Boarding School No15 in
Moscow.
- An expensive medicine EPREX ($240,000) was received from CILAG (Switzerland)
for the Ryazan Branch of the Russian Institute for Pediatric Hematology.
An agreement was made with a small business in Germany on their financial
support for two orphanages and one asylum in Moscow. The donation was
over DM10,000.
- At present two new long-term projects are being launched: Combating
Tuberculosis in Russia and Medical Assistance Quality Management in Russia.
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