They need our help!
Alexandra, Stefanel’s mother, has an income of 700 RON per month (160 euro, or 230 $). Of them she pays 150 RON for the monthly transport to Bucharest, to the hospital where Stefanel, operated of kidney cancer when he was one year old, is undergoing chemotherapy. Stefanel has a little brother, aged 4. All three live on the remaining 500 RON (120 euro, or 160 $) from Alexandra’s allowance of an attendant.
Stefanel
Stefanel and his mother Alexandra
Ana, Ovidiu’s mummy, has an income too. 630 RON per month (150 euro, or 210 $). Of them, 400 RON go on the monthly transport to the same Bucharest hospital, where Ovidiu, diagnosed at 4 years with Non Hodgkin Malignant Lymphoma and a malignant tumor in his lungs, is undergoing chemotherapy. Ovidiu’s parents are from a poor region of the country, where Ovidiu’s father has great difficulty in finding work. They have sold everything they had in their courtyard, to save their child. For whom the recent analysis show great chances of being cured!
Ovidiu and his mother Ana
Ovidiu
Sebastian is 2 and a half years old. His arrival in this world has been expected with eagerness and joy by two young and beautiful parents, who were unaware of the fact that life together with their child would mean rivers of tears and suffering. In the hospital, after 14 hours of labour, Gina was left unsupervised for 45 minutes, a time in which Sebastian suffocated on his own ombilical cord. The diagnosis at birth: cerebral paralysis. After two years of fighting and suffering and expensive recovery treatments, Sebastian has started to see, to hear, to smile, to babble, seeding the seeds of hope that his recovery is possible, and that he will be able to live a life, not just exist! Sebastian has gone through a first operation, in Dusseldorf (Germany): stem cells have been implanted in an area of his leg. He is undergoing complex recovery treatments, which cost a lot of money. And a second operation is needed: the German doctors intend to implant stem cells into his brain, after he turns 3. The operation will again be very expensive, and Sebastian’s parents can only hope that their beloved child will be helped by good and generous people! They will launch another humanitarian campaign this spring, in the hope that they will be able to schedule the second operation in autumn 2010.
Sebastian
Sebastian and his mother Gina
Sebastian’s Story – please visit his youtube channel
George Stefan has a lonely and sad mother. His father died in a road accident, swept off the sidewalk by a scoundrel who has paid for it with three years suspended prison sentence. George Stefan’s mother cannot find work in a poor region of the country and lives the drama of so many poor parents in Romania, who cannot provide their children with a decent life. For Romania’s poor there is nothing but a hard life, which they bear from one day to the other. And because even the poor understand that they cannot put their hope in Romania’s government, all they have left is the faith in God and the chance to be helped by those who are less unhappy than they are.
These are but a few of the dramatic life stories that go on around us, without our knowing. The smallest help from us, the ones who are less fortunate than these human beings, could mean a lot to them. 10 or 20 €/$, from as many of us as possible, could bring those children and their parents a ray of light in a desperate life.
The first money just arrived from Raluca, my sister: 200 euro have been shared (God, how terribly hard it was for us to be able to choose!) between four children: Stefanel, Ovidiu, Sebastian and George Stefan. It is our turn, mine and my sister Irina’s. And we are waiting for you, our friends! Please visit the pages, read, send those sad human beings a good thought, and help however you can. Here in Romania, we have proposed our friends to collect our help, so we can simplify the formalities, and I have taken it upon myself to run the errands. For you, our known and unknown friends from abroad, it is your decision who you will choose and how you will help.
Stefania, Alexia, Sebastian, George Stefan, Calin, Georgiana, Stefanel, Luca, Alexandru Damian, Cerasela, Steluta, Robert, Nicole, Gabriela… Children, adolescents or young adults, they dream of the day when they will be healthy and able to live their life. In a country in which tens of millions of dollars are swept away from the public finances and transferred into private pockets, in which the health system is in collapse and the State is indifferent to the needs and dramas of its citisens, Stefania, Alexia, Sebastian, George Stefan, Calin, Georgiana, Stefanel, Luca, Alexandru Damian, Cerasela, Steluta, Robert, Nicole, Gabriela have no other hope left than to be helped by people with a kind heart and a good soul.
If you wish to send your help to other children than the ones presented on the page of Real Romania, then (for Romanian readers) you can search into Isabela’s blog, there are so many of them who need help!
Isabela is one of those rare human beings who willingly gives away a part of her life to help others fight for theirs. Her blog is “bitter and quiet”… and opens the door to a world of unhappiness… The lecture is so overwhelming, that it makes one want to run away… But for those who are willing to stay, a few words: on Isabela’s blog, as well as on other pages, are the dramas of desperate human beings who need help and do not get it. And every small gesture can make a difference!
Thank you! God bless you!
Cristina
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The sad smile of a child undergoing chemotherapy in the Budimex Hospital in Bucharest
