Help Ilyusha become a true hero!

Little Illyusha Martynovych is only 3 years old but his life has begun with hard challenges. On the second day of his birth he went through apparent death. The doctors did their best trying to keep the boy alive, and he survived, but the consequences of this are very serious. Doctors of one of the hospitals in Kyiv said that the baby is going to die, and they won't even try to treat the boy. However, the mother did not give up. Now Illia had a chance for medical treatment abroad, but it needs a lot of money, which parents doesn't have. Let's unite our force to help Illyusha!

Today the boy can only lie in his bed and observe surroundings. He has frequent spasms that make pain to him. In addition to suffering and pain, these spasms prevent him from receiving needed treatment and manipulations after which the boy would be able to walk independently and could hug his mum expressing his big love to her.

Unfortunately, in our country the doctors can not help Ilyusha because children with this disease are considered "incurable" because their chances to live a full life are miserable. Therefore, doctors told that the mother didn't have even to try to cure the child. Therefore, the only way to save her son is to treat him in foreign hospitals. In case of successful treatment, as doctors abroad and the child's parents hope, Illia would get rid of convulsions and would be able to move independently and live without pain and suffering!

Due to people who are not different to the other person's grief, Illyusha has got the chance to be diagnosed and be cured in Germany. The family needs 7 000 EURO for this traetment.

His father works as a loader, and his mother looks after Illusha. The family is not capable to collect such sum on their own. But the help of each of us can become that droplet that makes an ocean of hope and kindness.
We believe that Illyusha will become a hero – a really strong person one day!

Name: Illya A. Martynovych, 05/05/2011

Location: Zhytomyr

Diagnosis: microcephaly, spastic tetraparesis, spastic syndrome