To stand on my own feet

Pavlo is a 14-year-old boy who's sick with the cerebral palsy, he's an ordinary schoolboy of one Kyiv's school: his friends don't offend him, but he just want to be like all of them, not to limp through the corridor following them, to do excercises in a gym, but not to sit on the bench and just to watch. He wants to stand on his own feet and to play football. But now it's only a dream. Constant rehabilitation is needed as well as money for it. His father died, his mother is constantly sick, she's often in hospitals. To raise funds is difficult, but they are so needed. Help make his dream come true–to stand on his own feet!

Pavlo was born prematurely, on the 6,5 month of pregnancy of his mother. He had his lungs not being opened, and as a result – he's sick with cerebral palsy. Now the boy's studying in a regular school, he has friends who are sympathetic to his illness and don't offend him.

However, the child grows, and at the age of adolescence it's difficult to control the muscles that grow quickly and become spasmodic. The rehabilitation in the Clinic of Rehabilitation in Truskavets is needed, and if the boy is not be able to go there this time – Pasha won't flex his leg at the knee, or a joint contracture will appear, and it's horrible that it also depends on funds. Doctors have promised that if the boy continues the course of treatment, the child will be able to walk as the others and almost will not differ from his peers.

His father died when Pasha was 6 years old, he was a policaman and once he just did not come back home - it was very stressful situation for a disabled child. Since then, a mother takes care of him and his daughter on her own, but her healrth condition is not as well, so she's often in hospitals. To raise 6 860 UAH is too difficult for the family, and it is needed now more than ever before. Please help make the dream of the boy come true!

Name: Pavlo R. Verchynskyi, born 10/07/1999

Location: Kyiv

Diagnosis: Cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis with a right side lesion