Mission | Accomplishments | Future Plans | Leadership | Donors | Donations | Contacts

The Mission of the Foundation

“International Support Fund for the Children Suffering From Leukemia” is a charity organization to support children suffering from leukemia living in Georgia. The Foundation was established on May 14, 1999 in compliance with the Civil Code of Georgia. Founding members of the Fund are the people who have experienced all the difficulties and pains that this disease entails and have felt an enormous spiritual relief that sympathies and comfort of people around them can bring.

The purpose of the Fund is to:

• Provide material, moral and spiritual support to the children suffering from leukemia and to their parents;
• Support the families of the children suffering from leukemia and promote their social security;
• Develop and improve the conditions in hospitals to make the children’s stay enjoyable there;
• Promote the further development of charity activities to help the children suffering from leukemia.

The Program is devised to create such conditions for the children in hospital that would provide their mental and spiritual development. The implementation of this program will greatly help the children to overcome the difficulties connected to the treatment and at the same time will make their involvement in active life easier after leaving the hospital.

Accomplishments

Throughout the period of its existence the Fund has installed the hot water tank, washing machine and electric stoves in Onco-hematological center, the only Center in Georgia (functioning in Tbilisi on the basis of the Children’s Central Hospital). The Fund set the children’s playing room and furnished it with tables, chairs, a sofa and a piano. The walls of the playing room have been decorated with fairy tales and cartoon characters to create warm and homelike atmosphere.

The fund introduced the art therapy course for which reason four teachers have been invited to teach the children various crafts. The children are given painting, modelling, sewing, knitting and music lessons twice a week. These activities help them overcome the consequences of a long and serious treatment.

The members of the Fund often visit the Centre and bring the children presents and sweets. They celebrate Christmas, Easter and other significant holidays together.

The fund often invites the Puppet and Muppet theatres, actors, musicians, arranges exhibitions of children’s paintings.

Future Plans

The Foundation intends to:

• Provide a full scale elementary school curriculum for the children who are temporarily detached from the learning process due to being in hospital that requires the employment of at least 4 additional teachers.
• Publish calendars and booklets decorated with children’s own paintings.
• Build a special house in a countryside, nearby Tbilisi, where the children will be able to stay after their treatment for the period of rehabilitation.

Leadership

The founders: Manana Chubinidze, Chairman, Philologist (2); Gocha Mikiashvili PHD, Architect (3); Tina Chubinidze, physician (1); Maya Vashadze, Engineer (5).

The members: Nino Danelia, Maya Kavtaradze and Inga Mjavanadze

Consultants of the Foundation: Asmat Shengelaia, professor; Levan Bachtadze, professor; from Children’s Onco-hematological Center (Georgia), Dr. Christoph Tautz, Marijke and Jakob Bijkerk (Germany), Marussia Chavchavadze (USA).

Donors

World Vision Georgia; Political movement Industry Saves Georgia (Georgia), Henry Taler’s Fund, Sterntaler Fund; Waldorf School in Witten (Germany). Private persons: Christa Gabler, Margaret Nikolay, Doris Shriner, Margit Didrich, Ulrike Wesenberg, Stepanie Rudolph, Ulrike Mitelstras, Renate Tautz, Inge and Hans Zihelshmidt, Hilde and Wolfgang Helm, Sandra Baumann, Christa and Fritz Lützenkirchen (Germany), Doris Vogl, Margot Bernhart, Carl Heinrih (Vienna, Austria), Gia Bajelidze, Zurab Gabunia, Rusudan Bolkvadze, Misha Antadze, Nino Janjgava, Zurab Kikodze (Georgia), etc.
 

The support of the international community is vital for our Fund. Let us remember that your assistance, be it material or moral, will positively affect the long treatment and further rehabilitation of these children. Let us join our efforts to bring joy and happiness to these children and their relieves and ease their pain.

The members of the fund express an enormous gratitude to everyone who will be willing to support the above initiations.

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Donations

Please use the following requisites to transfer USD in favor of customer of Bank of Georgia:

Intermediary Bank: HSBC BANK USA
SWIFT MRMDUS33
CHIPS ABA: 0108,ABA FEDWIRE: 021001088
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Beneficiary Bank: Bank of Georgia, SWIFT: BAGAGE22
Corr. Account: 000 304 581
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Beneficiary Customer: INTERNATIONAL CHARITY FOND
FOR CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM LEUKEMIA
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USD Ben. Account Number: 73 801 070 413

Our address:

10 Irakli Abashidze St. Appt. 32,
Tbilisi 380079, GEORGIA

Phone: +995 32 233895
Fax: +995 32 225469
Cellular: +995 99 922253
Web: www.fund.8m.com
Email: mikia@caucasus.net