Irynka wants to live not in pain, but in music.

Nine-year-old Irynka Honcharenko needs a new rehabilitation course – to keep moving forward and to live the way she loves: with music, dancing, and her favorite fairy tales.

Irynka came into the world with asphyxia and spent her first 20 days in intensive care on a ventilator. Doctors warned her mother that with such damage, the child would most likely be unable to lead a full life. But her parents did not give up and began searching for ways to treat her. At one year old, the girl was diagnosed with cerebral palsy – and from that moment her fight began: rehabilitation, home sessions, speech therapy, special education, psychology, and physical therapy.

Irynka is now 9 years old. She cannot walk independently and has developmental delays, but thanks to previous rehabilitation courses she can walk a little and stand with support, dress herself, and her speech has improved significantly. Last year the girl enrolled in a lyceum under an inclusive education program. She is interested in music, loves dancing and drawing, makes up stories and fairy tales, and collects cards of her favorite K-pop stars. She also attends a music school studying piano – which helps to control the involuntary movements of her hand and develop it further.

Irynka loves face-to-face communication and tries very hard to make herself understood. Systematic rehabilitation can give her even more.

"After Iryna's last course of treatment, her hyperkinesis decreased, she became calmer, and her skills are improving: our daughter tries to stand on her own and even walk small steps over short distances. Your help has been decisive on Irynka's path to recovery, giving her hope and restoring her belief in her own strength," says the girl's mother.

Please support Irynka again, so that her days are filled with music and dancing. Without pain.