He has already faced death. Help him live

"On August 22, 2025, our life was destroyed in an instant. Our son Mykhailo was only 1 year and 8 months old. One step, one fall from a height – and the child found himself between life and death," recalls Mykhailo's father.

Severe traumatic brain injury, brain contusion, hemorrhages, edema. His little head couldn't withstand such an impact. He was rushed into surgery: trepanation of the skull, hours of waiting and fear that cannot be put into words. The doctors gave him no chance. None at all.

"We stood by and just begged for him to survive. And he did survive. But the price of this life is terrible. The left side of his brain is severely damaged, and some of the connections are lost. Our little boy has to learn to live all over again."

Today, Mykhailo is 2 years old. And every day he does what comes naturally to other children. He is learning to sit, stand, crawl, and take his first steps. Every movement is achieved through pain, effort, and struggle. His right hand is almost useless. His balance is impaired. A long road of rehabilitation lies ahead, with daily classes, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.

His diagnosis sounds like a death sentence: the consequences of severe closed craniocerebral trauma, brain contusion, central mixed pyramidal-extrapyramidal tetraparesis. But for his parents, these are not just words. It is their child's struggle for every movement, every step, for the opportunity to live. 

Mykhailo has already achieved the impossible. But without rehabilitation, he may lose even that. We kindly ask you to help and not to pass by, not to leave this child alone with his pain.

We will be infinitely grateful to everyone who supports Mykhailo and helps him get rehabilitation!