In Ukraine, parents of children with special needs are encouraged to hand their children over to state care. They are told their children are a burden on society. Children are sent to institutions where they are subjected to abuse and neglect. There is minimal support available to parents who fight to keep their children with them. Maya's Hope wants to help relieve some of the burden on these amazing parents and assist in keeping children with their families, where they belong.
"Hello, my name is Lilya and I have a special baby, Bogdan. Bogdan was born weighing 860 grams, height 34 cm. For the first 10 days he was in the intensive care unit of the maternity hospital, then he was transferred to the intensive care unit of the children's city hospital. Seven months in hospital, of which Bogdan spent six months on mechanical ventilation (the doctors' prognosis is "vegetable", "deeply disabled") and three months in the department of "nursing premature babies", when a shunt operation was performed.
We were already discharged with a disability. The diagnosis was made: cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus (shunted) and epilepsy.
Bogdan has proved the doctors wrong. He is not a vegetable."
Bogdan is currently in need of diapers, wipes and nutrient dense purees. Can you help us provide him with these for the next 3 months?
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