Can we feed this baby?

Imagine for a second that your life depends on what you eat. No, it's not about fashionable healthy food - but literally. Terrible. And when it's a child, it becomes unbearable. Valeria's mother has been living in this fear for more than a year. Her daughter was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 1. The girl needs a special diet enriched with protein. Every month it costs more than 3 thousand UAH.

A healthy baby is born, and at 3 months the parents notice that the daughter does not roll over, does not hold her head, as children of her age do. The disease is not detected for a long time, it is attributed to muscle hypotonia. After a month in a hospital with severe pneumonia, genetic DNA diagnosis confirms this terrible diagnosis.

Today, at the age of one and a half, Valeria has contracted five pneumonias and Covid. SMA takes girls' life. 50% of such children do not live to the age of 2. Valeria lost the ability to move her legs and hold her head. She can not sit on their own, roll over, cough. In the future, without proper treatment and maintenance therapy, she may stop moving her arms, eating and breathing on her own.

Her dad is the only breadwinner. Her mother Iryna has bronchial asthma. And being completely healthy, she can't earn money – her daughter needs every minute supervision. Can we feed this baby? At least temporarily relieve the headache of her exhausted parents for this expense item. The special food we want to buy with the funds raised on dobro.ua will be enough for Valeria for 3 months.

Special food will not create a wonder. But it will support Valeria's life as it is today. Help to do it, please.