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Leukemia
Charities
The
Foundation's priority charity project is its involvement in activities of
the Hematologists of the World for Children international association and
the program of treating childhood leukemia in Russia.
Under the Foundation's patronage an Association was set up to promote research
into and treatment of childhood leukemia and cancer in Russia. The Foundation
collects and allocates funds and resources coming from the Foundation's
partners and from individuals both in the form of special-purpose monetary
donations and medical equipment and medicines.
- supplying medicines
and equipment for the Russian Institute for Pediatric Hematology, for
which $100,000 were donated by Raisa Gorbachev (from royalties of her
book I Hope);
- financing a refresher training program for medical personnel in foreign
hospitals (on a permanent basis);
- financing research in the field of children's leukemia (on a permanent
basis);
- opening (June 1993) Russia's first Children's Bone Marrow Transplantation
Center (the total cost was $2 million; half of this amount came from the
Foundation - the money was raised by Mikhail Gorbachev during his trip
to the USA and donated by Fred Matzer, a Dutch public figure);
- buying equipment and medications for the Bone Marrow Transplantation
Center of the Russian Institute for Pediatric Hematology (on a permanent
basis; current cost - $10 million);
- paying for the hotel accommodation of the children who are given treatment
in the outpatient facility ($60,000); organizing European and international
seminars on hematology (on a permanent basis; current spending - $200,000).
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