This family needs you very much

Artyomka is 13 years old and today he critically needs special nutrition. The boy cannot eat without additional help for 7 months. Doctors installed him a gastric catheter. He needs 10 cans of Resource Optimum per month to gain weight and just live. The boy simply has no other way to eat. He also has to use a lot of diapers. For his parents, the cost of everything that is necessary is unjustifiably high and it is simply impossible to cope without help. This family really needs you. 

There are three children in the family of Lukashuk, mother and father give all their strength to taking care of them and, if the children were healthy, they would succeed. But the eldest son is seriously ill, and another, but also very serious, lifelong illness was discovered in the youngest daughter. Parents are not to blame in either case — children with such diseases can be born in any family.

Artem has muscular dystrophy, the condition is very serious. Despite his teenage years, the condition and skills of the boy are at the level of an infant. He does not know how to sit down or stand up; he cannot take care of himself at all. Artem’s life and well-being are completely dependent on the people nearby.

Today, to ease the everyday life of this family is in our power. We can release them from their terrible thoughts about what will happen if there is not enough money for food. After all, there is no other way to feed Artem, and without help there would be a threat that the boy would die from exhaustion. It’s scary to understand such a reality. But we believe in a reality where people help people. Transfer any comfortable amount for this project, and we will be able to pay the bills for Artem.

Name: Lukashuk Artem, 12.08.2006

City: Kyiv

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis, congenital brain development, microcephaly