Help Yaroslav Save His Mum

Unfortunately, this line is all too familiar to Yaroslav already. His mum Oksana Ananyeva has been fighting a terrible diagnosis - chronic hepatitis C, she's under threat of liver cirrhosis. Help Yaroslav save his mum! Please support our fundraising campaign for very expensive medicine for Oksana!

Yaroslav is three years old. The boy tries to be strong and support his mum in everything, although he has health problems himself. Yaroslav was born with cytomegalovirus disease which affects the nervous system.

It's scary to find yourself in a situation like this. At the age of 29 all your plans and hopes are crushed by this terrible disease and health problems of your child. When does one find strength and faith that everything is going to turn out fine? To believe that you will beat the illness and you'll be able to live your life and bring up your son? Thank God, Oksana has the most powerful stimulus ever that doesn't allow her to give up. This stimulus run over to her, gives her a hug with his little arms and says really loud: "MUM, I LOVE YOU"... And then mum feels inner strength yet again and hope for the better.

Oksana is twenty nine years old. Despite the efforts of the doctors and her family, the illness would not retreat. The doctors were prescribing the newest medicines which were meant to stop the destruction caused by the virus. These medicines are quite expensive. A course of treatment lasts one year. A two months' stock of two out of three medicines, "Rebetol" and "Pegentron", have already been purchased by the "Happy Child" foundation as part of "Helpus" assistance project, at a monthly cost of UAH 1,000 (125 US dollars) and UAH 8,620 (1,078 US dollars) respectively. There is also the third, most expensive medicine, 'Viktrelis'. A monthly dose of it costs UAH 37,000 (4,630 US dollars). It doesn't have to be taken for a year but until it has a certain positive effect on the body. It be two months, if we're lucky. For now it's impossible to predict the timescales. However, if the medicines are not taken as soon as possible, the liver could fail and a very complicated and costly liver transplant would be required.

The "Happy Child" charity foundation has almost acquired enough money to fund the first monthly dose of the medicines. But the second month hasn't been provided for at all. We cannot do it without your support. Oksana's parents have sold everything they could to pay for the treatment of their most beloved daughter and grandson. Right now the only hope they have is the support of strangers who care, like us. Please help Oksana to undergo the full course of treatment and return to normal life!