There is still HOPE for Tanya

Tanya is a fifteen-year-old girl from the rural Carpathian mountain region in western Ukraine.

On Wednesday June 15^th, 2006 she got a fever and then suddenly lost consciousness. Her family rushed her to the ER where she was subsequently diagnosed with leukemia.

Tanya has nine brothers and sisters, and because it is such an emotional situation the doctors recommended her parents remain at home to care for their other children whole her older sister Nadia accompanied Tanya to Kiev, living with her in the hospital.

On October 20^th 2007 Tanya and a few of her family members moved to Moscow and waited for approval to be admitted into the hospital, where she was in so much pain she bit her hands to the point that they bled. On October 31^st she was finally admitted to begin a six-month treatment.

Tanya has an incredible fighting spirit and hasn’t complained through the whole process. She loves life, and aside from her cancer she has carried on as normally as possible. Friends and family back in her very poor, rural town have raised $3,000, an incredible feat.

She has received financial support through an organization that connects Westerners wishing to help children with cancer and those affected by the Chernobyl disaster to the actual families. As well as generous donors from within our network of friends. All together she now has over $60,000 donated to fund her treatments, which will cover six months in Moscow.