Podari.Life

Today is International Childhood Cancer Day. 🎗️

As we mark this day, we’ve been looking back at the incredible journey we’ve taken together.

To everyone who has stood with us over the years: we want to show you exactly what your support has built. Because of you, we reached a massive milestone in 2025: Nearly $800,000 in total aid provided to children in need.

Your kindness laid the foundation for our most ambitious work yet:

🎗️CAR-T Cell Therapy: In 2025, we began funding this cutting-edge treatment for children who have exhausted all other options. This mission continues in 2026 - right now, 16-year-old Ilya is on his way to receive this life-saving care.

🎗️Meds4Kids: Our flagship program is still going strong. We’ve already secured Defitelio for Sergey ($15,820) this year and are working urgently to provide vital medications for Kira and Semen.

🎗️Doctor Support: We continue to invest in the experts who save these lives. In 2025, we spent approximately $47,000 on medical conferences and professional subscriptions, and we plan to provide the same level of support this year.

✨Thank you for being the hope these families need. Together, we are changing the future of childhood cancer care.

How to help today: link in the comment

One of the most effective ways to support us is through matching donations: the company you work for can double your donation to us!

Your support has already helped children like Andemirkan, who will be 10 on December 25 and is fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since May. Thanks to timely support, the medicines he needed were fully covered — a critical step in protecting him during his treatment journey.

How does it work? If your employer supports matching donations, simply select Podari.Life Inc (EIN #47-4165470) in your corporate system. Your company will match your donation, and the full amount will go toward purchasing life-saving medicines for other children who need them now.

Please share this opportunity with your colleagues. Every child who needs medicine should receive it — and receive it on time!

🎃 It’s almost Halloween — and time to start getting ready for the New Year!
And guess what? It’s not too late to order our unique Salem Witch Trials 2026 Calendar

Created by Fima Furman (photography) and Rada Landar (idea and texts) for our Boston's summer fundraising event with Ivan Kurilla, this calendar is printed on high-quality paper and offers a beautiful, artistic take on history.

You can enjoy it yourself or gift it to someone who loves New England stories and art.
💛 All proceeds go to a vital cause — helping kids to fight cancer by getting the urgent medications they need.

🗓️ Available in two styles:
Wall Calendar (center binding) — 13" × 11"
Wall Calendar (top binding) — 12" × 18"

Place the order: https://www.podari.life/salem

Please share — that helps too! 🙏✨

🌍 International Bone Marrow Donor Day is honored on September 20th.

🧬 Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a complex and costly procedure used to treat congenital and malignant blood diseases (such as leukemias) and immunodeficiencies, including severe combined immunodeficiency.

⚠️ The procedure requires great caution and is performed only when absolutely necessary. The therapeutic effect of BMT is based on two key factors: high doses of chemotherapy and the patient’s immune response to the replacement of their bone marrow with donor marrow.

❤️‍🩹 For child patients, this is a matter of life — their entire immune system is replaced by the donor’s, which requires a long recovery process with medication support 💉 and home quarantine 🏠.

👦 Shamil is 6 years old and has a primary immunodeficiency. Against this background, he developed a very rare lymphatic system disease for children — lymphomatoid granulomatosis. After treatment and successful bone marrow transplantation in March 2025, the child is now undergoing rehabilitation.

👦 Sergey, 10 years old, faced a dangerous blood disease — aplastic anemia. In March, he underwent a bone marrow transplant and has since returned home to recover.

🔎 No transplant is free of additional financial costs. For unrelated transplants, it is necessary to pay for donor search and activation in foreign registries, and for using incompatible relatives — a high-tech graft purification process.

❤️‍🩹 Your donations have helped organize and pay for BMT for several children this year, giving them a chance for a new life. Only on BMT, $118,636 was spent this year, not counting accompanying medication costs.

🙏 We are very grateful to all donors for their invaluable contribution. At the same time, we still need donations 💖 to continue helping children receive timely and life-saving transplants. Every contribution is a chance to save a life 🌟.