Charitable Foundation assistance to children with oncohematological and other serious diseases "Give Life" was established on November 26, 2006 by actresses Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova. It is a non-membership non-profit organization.

Foundation tasks:

— raising funds for the treatment and rehabilitation of children with oncological and hematological diseases;
- assistance to oncology and hematology clinics where children and young adults are treated;
— attracting public attention to the problems of sick children;
– promoting the development of free blood donation;
— provision of social and psychological assistance to sick children;
— assistance to the work of volunteer groups at children's oncohematological clinics.

According to the charter, the Gift of Life Foundation primarily provides assistance in paying for diagnostics and treatment, in purchasing medicines, medical supplies and equipment for children and young adults (under 25 years old) suffering from oncological and oncohematological diseases.

The Foundation accepts applications from doctors, patients, their parents or legal guardians of patients. The need for treatment, for which the Podari Zhizn Foundation is asked to pay, must be confirmed by official medical documents. The Fund does not provide assistance in paying for treatment by alternative medicine methods. Also, the fund can pay for the treatment of foreign citizens if they are treated outside of Russia.

The fund has no branches, departments and representatives in the regions of Russia. There is a partnership fund registered in London - giftoflife.

Several times a year, the fund arranges large-scale promotions. Since 2005, a concert "Give Life" has been held annually, timed to coincide with international day protection of children, traditional exhibitions of children's creativity are held.

Twice a year, the foundation celebrates Donor Day: April 20 is National Donor Day and June 14 is International Donor Day.

In the summer of 2010 and 2011, the World Games of Winners were held in Moscow with the support of the Podari Zhizn Foundation. Sports competitions were arranged specifically for children who had overcome a serious illness.

Management bodies of the fund: board, council of the fund, director, board of trustees.

The chairman of the board of the fund is Mikhail Maschan.

On November 26, the Podari Zhizn Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary. The main achievement of the foundation over the years is more than 35,000 children who have received assistance. Ekaterina Chistyakova, director of the foundation, told Philanthropist about other big and small victories of the Podari Zhizn team.

The Gift of Life Foundation was created to help children with cancer. Most children recover from cancer. Of the three and a half thousand of those who annually develop cancer in the country, 700-800 children die. The rest are recovering, and perhaps even more children could recover. Our modest goal is to ensure that not a single child dies because there is not enough money for treatment, donated blood, or support. Everything we have been doing for 10 years has been consistently moving towards this goal. We are trying to ensure that all cancer treatment technologies that appear in the world appear in Russia as well.

Modern types of treatment

We have spent a lot of time on regulating the procedure for importing medicines that are not registered in Russia. Previously, they had to be smuggled in from abroad, now we have ensured that a line appears in the law on circulation medicines permitting the importation of such preparations for personal use. There are MIGB-therapy technologies for the treatment of children with neuroblastomas. Previously, this type of treatment could only be obtained abroad. Now, with our help, the radiopharmaceutical necessary for this is being delivered from abroad to the Russian science Center radiology. Together with the doctors of the Center for Pediatric Hematology named after Dmitry Rogachev, we bring new technologies and new medicines from the West. With our support, the doctors of the Center have the opportunity to study, attend conferences and foreign internships, and invite foreign specialists to their place. But our goal is to spread these technologies to regional children's oncology clinics. We have the Far Regions program, when the doctors of the Center. Dmitry Rogachev travel to different regions and give lectures in local clinics.

Regional centers and transplantation

Our new project, which just launched this year, aims to increase the availability of bone marrow transplants for children with cancer. According to experts, 800 children in the country need this type of treatment, and only about 400 receive bone marrow transplantation, because there are not enough beds that are adapted for this. Now we are working with Yekaterinburg, where a regional department of bone marrow transplantation has been operating for 10 years. Only children from the Sverdlovsk region have the right to be treated at this clinic at public expense. But the clinic has the opportunity to accept more children for treatment. Since the summer of this year, thanks to the support of our foundation, children from Crimea, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk have received treatment there, and there will still be children who could not wait for queues in federal centers. We are also re-equipping this clinic in Yekaterinburg, because the equipment that was installed 10 years ago is starting to break down. We hope that by 2018, when we will start working with children from other regions in Yekaterinburg, this clinic will receive state funding to treat children from all over the country. At the same time, we are closely cooperating with the Krasnoyarsk Territory, we want to build a bone marrow transplantation department in the city and train Krasnoyarsk doctors for this work.

Why exactly Krasnoyarsk?

We looked at the map, and it became quite obvious to us that it was wrong to make transplant centers for one region.

Because, for example, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, only 6 children per year will need this type of treatment. This means that doctors will not have them on stream, doctors will not be able to practice the skill. And it's just not efficient even from the point of view of spending money to buy expensive equipment because of six people. But it is very correct to create inter-regional centers. Up to 50 people could receive assistance there annually. We have selected several areas that are well connected different types transport with neighboring regions, and sent letters there asking if any of the doctors would like to become our partners in this project. Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk had an opportunity for this. There is simply a clinic in Yekaterinburg that, due to bureaucratic problems, cannot accept children from other regions, while Krasnoyarsk has very good blood services, laboratories, and hospitals. They only need to be tightened up, trained, re-equipped, reconstructed in one of the hospital departments, and the project can be launched.

In the south, there are two regions that could take on the development of bone marrow transplantation when new hospital buildings are built. When the corps appear, we will return to interacting with these regions.

Equipment and preparations

I recently looked at my old records. Now it is very clear that medical situations that were hopeless 10 years ago can now be resolved.

Now we would save those children who could not be helped before.

World medicine has stepped forward, and the Gift of Life Foundation has helped Russian doctors keep up with progress. Unfortunately, the state machine is swinging very slowly, money is allocated for something new far from immediately, as soon as this new one appears. For example, now on Russian market In the 1990s, the modern drug "Adcetris" for the treatment of lymphomas arrived, which previously could only be bought abroad. It was not included this year and - it is already clear - next year it will not be included in the list of essential medicines. This means that its purchases for public money will be carried out in a minimal amount, and this is a very expensive medicine. Thanks to the support of our foundation and our colleagues, this drug will be available to patients who cannot be helped in any other way. Another challenge for us is the equipment of hospitals. The healthcare modernization program took place 10 years ago. It is clear that the equipment is now starting to fail. Some we repair, some we buy again. For example, in Yekaterinburg, where we are developing bone marrow transplantation to neighboring regions, infusion pumps, devices that drip chemotherapy into the blood, failed. We have replaced them.

The same situation is in St. Petersburg at the Raisa Gorbacheva Clinic of Hematology and Transplantology. We buy infusion pumps and vital signs monitors there. There are also such devices - analyzers for the content of pharmaceuticals in the blood. A very important thing that allows you to prevent the death of a patient from an overdose of chemotherapy drugs.

For devices that were produced 10 years ago, there are no longer spare parts and consumables. They became unusable. We receive applications from hospitals and replace these analyzers within a year. There is not enough budget money for the re-equipment of state clinics in terms of purchasing equipment. Even in order to maintain the existing level of treatment, let alone move forward, this charitable assistance is needed.

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Blood donation

In 2003, I unexpectedly found out for myself that in Moscow there is a Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (RCCH) for non-residents, where children from all over Russia come. These children need daily blood transfusions. In Moscow, children and their parents have no one who could be asked to donate blood. And there were no donors in the blood transfusion department either.

Now more than 20 donors donate blood in this hospital every day, but then no one donated blood. Moms put up ads, paid money to hospital guards to donate blood. Of course, there was still not enough blood.

This was the first colossal problem that we undertook to solve. First, we were looking for donors for specific patients from the RCCH. They wrote on Internet forums, with the consent of the abbots, posted announcements in churches, asked relatives, friends, and acquaintances. Then the Donors to Children group was formed, which gave rise to the Give Life Foundation. We quickly realized that donors could be attracted, but they don't like blood service institutions, they don't like standing in lines. And the attitude of doctors to them as to expendable material is also not pleasant. Doctors then were determined to receive paid donors, who were ready to endure rudeness and inconvenience for the promised 1000 rubles.

It became clear that paid donation not only did not solve all problems, but reduced the quality of blood components, because a paid donor was not ready to announce that he had, for example, unprotected sex. By that time, the whole world had long switched to the rails of gratuitous voluntary donation.

We appealed both to the blood service and to journalists. Then it was generally very difficult to get to the media with information about blood donation. We tried to attract donors through TV channels, through newspapers, but they told us that there is no blood for the sick - this is not news, but snow fell in Moscow in winter - this is news.

But time passed, and the situation changed. We managed to explain to the public that donors do not lie on the shelves, that if each of us does not come to donate blood, then someone else will certainly die. After the problem was recognized at the public level, it turned out to work with the Ministry of Health.

As a result, in 2012 the law on blood donation was rewritten and the blood service in the country was reorganized. This gave a chance for recovery not only to our children, in the end, the modernization of the blood service helped a lot of people.

Before the adoption of this law, there was such a “hunger” in Russia, when operations were postponed and patients died because there was no blood for transfusion. Now the situation has changed, and I believe that this is our great and important achievement.

Palliative care

Unfortunately, not all of our children recover and survive. We have a palliative care project. We help those children who cannot be cured. We know exactly how the last months and days of the life of our wards are passing, what kind of support they need. We know that in October 7 of our children died, in September 9 children, and how it happened.

Many years ago, we thought that if a child was declared incurable and discharged home, then some kind of help would be provided to him somewhere. He was leaving for his hometown, and after a while we found out or did not find out that he had died. How this happened was unknown. Until a certain point.

There was such a boy, Zhora Vinnikov, who was dying in Moscow. And everyone knew about him. He died without anesthesia. Our first director Galya Chalikova tried very hard to help him, but nothing happened.

It became clear what a tragedy it is to endure severe oncological pain when it hurts everywhere: not a tooth, not an arm, but the whole body. We had to get to work.

Galya did not have time to finish what she started, she died, and the problem of pain relief fell to me. At first it turned out to achieve understanding of the authorities and the public. Because five years ago it was impossible to explain to representatives of the Ministry of Health that there is a child who is not anesthetized, that this is a problem that must be solved and is not being solved. While they refused to help get painkillers, the children continued to die in terrible agony. We had a long and hard work in the Council under the Government of Russia on issues of guardianship in the social sphere.

As a result, the Government approved a roadmap for the availability of pain relief. It included a variety of issues: there is no required dosage form, which means that our industry must produce it, the path of the drug from the manufacturer to the pharmacy and the patient is too complicated and bureaucratic - it needs to be simplified.

Some of the problems have already been fixed. An anesthetic drug for a child can be prescribed by his local pediatrician. The appointment is valid not for 5 days, but for 15. They began to purchase more non-invasive dosage forms, that is, tablets, patches. Because if the morphine is injectable, the shots have to be given every four hours, and some kids are even more afraid of the injections than they are of the pain of cancer. We had such a boy in Tula. He was in a lot of pain, but he was crying and didn't want an injection. Fortunately, we were able to help him, and in the end, the child was put on an anesthetic plaster. There is hot line Roszdravnadzor, which helps patients get prescriptions for drugs in cases where doctors unjustifiably refuse to prescribe. But unfortunately, there are still many problems. As a rule, district pediatricians do not know how to prescribe narcotic pain relief to children. We have to send a doctor from a Moscow clinic for a joint examination with a local doctor. At least once a month, one of the children needs the intervention of Roszdravnadzor, because for bureaucratic reasons, doctors refuse to prescribe the drug: either they don’t know where to get the prescription, or something else. In general, the situation is improving, but only 20% of those who need it still receive adequate pain relief in the country.

Public attention to the problems of sick children

The main achievement of the Podari Zhizn Foundation is to convey to everyone and everyone the information that childhood cancer is curable.

When we came to the hospitals, it was believed that the treatment of cancer in a child was hopeless, no need to donate money, no need to help, they would die anyway. Now, if not everyone, then many people know that childhood cancer is curable, and now people are much more willing to help. What we have been doing for 10 years is not useless, and, of course, we need the help of both society and the state. First, donations. Secondly, children need blood transfusions. Imagine a child is lying, he has no strength, feels nauseous, sleepy. They transfused the erythrocyte mass - where did it come from! I want to jump and jump. Or the bleeding won't stop. Well, nothing can be done when a person does not have their own cells responsible for blood clotting. Once - donor platelets were transfused, and everything passed before our eyes. The magic thing is blood, it really saves lives! We call on everyone who is healthy, who has no contraindications, to become donors. We always need volunteers. We welcome those who help pro bono. I myself personally communicate with lawyers who help us read existing laws, prepare bills, look for ideas on how to correct laws, orders, government decrees so that help for children becomes more accessible.

Reputation of the NPO

When the Podari Zhizn Foundation solves one problem, it sees that ten more unsolved ones appear, and this is the reason why we have grown so much in ten years.

When we provided one department of the Russian Clinical Children's Hospital with blood donors, it turned out that there are three more departments that also need blood transfusions. When we learned how to buy medicines for this hospital, it turned out that there were not enough medicines for other hospitals and other children, and not only in Moscow.

Unfortunately, the problem we are dealing with - pediatric oncology - is very big. We are solving it gradually, we have really done a lot.

Cancer care has become more accessible, there is already a whole army of children who live thanks to the fact that someone helped, someone donated blood, donated money, just supported in time and did not let them fall into depression. But there are big unsolved tasks, and the bigger tasks we take on, the more people are needed to solve them. In addition, I consider it very important in the reputation of our foundation, at least in working with government bodies, high level of expertise and responsibility. I somehow had to hear a remark about our foundation, that if Podari Zhizn raised a problem, then it really exists. You cannot close your eyes, say that there is no problem, that this is not serious. For 10 years, everyone has become convinced that if we raise a question, it means that we have conducted our research, found out how things are, talked to doctors, read the legislation. We are responsible for all our words and requests. Of course, we are very lucky that the famous actors Dina Korzun, Chulpan Khamatova and Artur Smolyaninov are with us. Their fame allows them to open many doors. But what helps us even more is how involved Dina, Chulpan and Artur are in our work. Chulpan comes, brings new projects, joins the work. Her willingness to participate, help, go to meetings and ask for money is no less important than her big name.

Third sector in Russia

We see our mission primarily in growing the anti-cancer NPO sector. We have in touch about 50 foundations from different regions of Russia, which in one way or another help children with cancer at home. They can always contact us for advice. Once a year, we hold seminars for anti-cancer NGOs, where we try to share our experience and provide a platform for them to exchange their own methods. We invite business trainers to these seminars. They teach nkoshnikov who created their funds simply because it was impossible not to create, become professionals.

We believe that the credibility of the sector largely depends on the professionalism of those who work in this sector.

Foundation Patients

The fund was created out of necessity, when it became clear that a checking account was needed, that our volunteer efforts were completely insufficient to help everyone, and that volunteering became ineffective. We started working with patients of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, then patients from the Center for Radiology and the Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery joined. Now the Moscow Regional Oncology Center, the Morozov Hospital and many clinics in the regions are with us. We accept applications from all cities and villages of Russia. Every month, more than 100 children receive support through targeted assistance alone, not to mention the drugs that we purchase for hospitals.

10 years have passed, and somehow it suddenly turned out that there is a huge number of young people - someone became moms and dads - those who once got sick and recovered. Among them are those who work in our fund. They survived, recovered and are happy. For us, this is the best gratitude.

The fact that someone became a lawyer, someone a programmer, someone is studying to be a logistics specialist, and someone gave birth to a daughter, is such Feedback gives a sense of the meaning of their work.

There was no other fund, but there was such a boy, his name was Seryozha Rogozhin. Then he was, of course, a boy, now he is an uncle. When he entered the hospital, he needed a blood transfusion. Group - the fourth positive, rare. It was necessary that every day or every other day donors donate blood for Serezha. The doctor called me on Friday and asked me to look for donors. I say: “How much and by what time do you need it?” "We should live until Monday." Seryozha was admitted to the hospital at the beginning of December, around this time, he was very heavy, lying and literally dying. New Year he met already sitting in a wheelchair. Then he survived, recovered and got up, went to his place in the Ivanovo region, now he works as a truck driver. Amazing transformation, amazing. There is another boy, Seryozha Svyatkin. He spent four years in the hospital, the treatment went on and on, but the disease still did not respond to the drugs, and the doctors then decided to give him a bone marrow transplant. Serezha survived the transplantation, but severe complications developed, such that cells had to be taken from him and transported to Italy. There, the doctors were able to incite Serezha's lymphocytes to the infection that had attacked him. From Italy, we returned them to Russia, poured them into Serezha, and - lo and behold! - he is still with us, lives in Tolyatti, rides a motorcycle and is going to move to St. Petersburg. We recently met with some of our former guys, and there was a feeling that our conversation with them was interrupted yesterday, we just resumed it. They are so their own, so dear and so incredible.

The founders of the fund are Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova.

The Board of Trustees and the Board of the Foundation included artists, doctors, philanthropists and volunteers of the Donors to Children initiative group.

Under the tutelage of the foundation there are clinics where children with cancer are treated:
Center for Pediatric Hematology. Dmitry Rogachev (FNKTs DGOI)
City Clinical Hospital named after S. P. Botkin
Morozov Children's Clinical Hospital
Moscow Regional Oncological Dispensary
Research Institute. N. N. Burdenko
SPC "Solntsevo"
Russian Children's Clinical Hospital
Center for X-ray Radiology (RNTsRR).

OBJECTIVES OF ESTABLISHING THE FUND

Attracting public attention to the problems of children with oncological and hematological diseases

Assistance in the construction and equipping of a new modern oncohematological center and assistance to other children's clinics in this area

Providing social and psychological assistance to children with cancer, as well as finding funds for their treatment and rehabilitation

Development of free blood donation

The Foundation attracts artists, musicians and volunteers to participate in charity events, parties and auctions, or events held for children on the premises of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital.

FUND DETAILS

Forbes magazine, publishing an annual report on non-profit organizations that have succeeded and can be trusted, has repeatedly included the Gift of Life Foundation in its list. Indeed, this is one of the largest foundations in terms of the volume of charitable donations received and the volume of aid implemented. “Give Life” is an example of work for many foundations and volunteer movements. The NGOs have saved thousands of children's lives. The main direction of the foundation's work is to help seriously ill children with oncological and oncohematological diseases. Moreover, assistance is not only in medical manipulations and the purchase of necessary medicines.

The Fund takes part in legislative processes, influencing decisions made at the state level. Thus, in particular, the foundation has achieved changes in the practice of banning visits by relatives of the patient in the intensive care unit. Such a ban was contrary to the convention on the rights of the child, but, nevertheless, parents were not allowed into the intensive care unit, even to the smallest children. The problem put forward by the fund for discussion in the government received a positive response. Yes, some hospitals are still trying to stick to the old rules. But parents already have the opportunity to legally settle contentious issues.

The Foundation defends the right in yet another difficult question– import of medicines not registered in the Russian Federation. The draft “On the Circulation of Medicines” has been sent to the Duma, the adoption of which will facilitate the transport of unregistered imported drugs to Russia. It must be said that small steps have already been taken for this: canceled customs duty, a new system for issuing permits has been launched, and a scheme for the legal import of medicines by a single operator has been developed.

The Foundation took an active part in the discussion of the most resonant problem of recent years - the availability of timely pain relief for seriously ill people. In our country, the situation with available narcotic analgesics is extremely difficult. And most often we are talking not only about the lack of drugs, but also about the lack of informing the population and medical personnel. Several charitable foundations teamed up at once to improve the situation in palliative care for terminally ill people. After several years of fighting bureaucracy, non-profit movements have managed to bring the problem to the attention of the Ministry of Health. In 2016, relevant amendments to the current legislation were adopted to make it easier for the patient to receive painkillers. Of course, there are still many problems. But if not for the attention and perseverance of the funds, nothing at all has changed for the better.

How it all began

But such success was not achieved immediately. After all, until there was a fund, all the work lay on the shoulders of ordinary volunteers. After all, as often happens, the Podari Zhizn charity foundation grew out of routine volunteer work. Back in 2003, volunteers Anna Egorova and Ekaterina Chistyakova donated blood for one of the patients of the RCCH in Moscow. And on the spot it turned out that not only one girl needed blood, but there was a catastrophic shortage of donors. Trying to attract more and more people to this issue, the girls organized an initiative group “Donors for Children”. The group held large-scale campaigns to draw attention to the problem, agitated people to donate blood, searched for cash for the treatment of sick children. Over time, more and more people began to connect, including famous ones. At this time, the actress Chulpan Khamatova joined the movement, who gave her first charity concert in favor of the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Pediatric Hematology. But to carry out such actions on permanent basis was difficult as the movement had no legal status and raising large sums of money on a permanent basis was not possible.

In 2006, such a close-knit team of like-minded people formed around Chulpan Khamatova and, a little later, actress Dina Korzun, that it was time to open her own charitable foundation. In 2006, on the initiative of the future director of the fund, Galina Chalikova, the Gift of Life charity fund was registered (by the way, there is the Life fund, whose history began long before the foundation of the Chulpan Khamatova fund. Moreover, the Life fund is also involved in helping children with cancer). The founders of the fund were Chulpan Khamatova and Dina Korzun.

Fund wins

The first head of the fund was Galina Chalikova, a well-known volunteer who began helping children back in 1989 after the earthquake in Spitak. So gradually Galina began to work with medical institutions, in particular with the RCCH, and highlight the problems of modern treatment of children. Unfortunately, in 2011 Galina Chalikova passed away. At the moment, the position of the director of the fund is occupied by journalist Ekaterina Shergova.

The Foundation won its first real victory in 2008, when the construction of the Center for Children's Hematology, Oncology and Immunology began, which has no analogues in Russia yet. Of course, such a large-scale project would not have been possible without the support of the state. The starting point for assistance was the absolutely amazing story of the boy Dima Rogachev. Seriously ill Dima had cherished dream– to meet with President Vladimir Putin, about which he wrote him a letter. And the President responded. The meeting took place, and it was possible to draw Vladimir Putin's attention to the health problem. And the result was the construction specialized center. Subsequently, the center was named after Dmitry Rogachev, who died in 2007. Today, the Hematology Center is one of the largest in Russia, where children from all over the country can come for treatment.

Such different help

But the fund's work is not limited to current treatment. The staff of the foundation supervise each child who undergoes treatment with them until his full recovery. Few people know what difficulties a family has to face in which there is a seriously ill child. This includes the denial of necessary treatment due to the lack of quotas and the necessary drugs, treatment in another city or country, management and monitoring of the patient after recovery, and the lack of a decent palliative. Each family with a seriously ill child goes through a huge number of trials that are often impossible to cope with alone, for example, to purchase medicine that is not available in our country or to rent and pay for housing so that the whole family can be together during the treatment period in another region. charitable foundation, entity has the ability to help in such difficult situations.

Everything non-profit organizations exist on charitable donations. The Gift of Life Foundation is no exception. Any caring person can make a donation, both targeted and for the statutory goals of the fund. When making a bank transfer, the purpose of the payment must indicate that this is a charitable donation. You can specify the name and surname of the specific child you want to help. In this case, the money will go to help him. The official website of the fund has a section in which all reports on the funds spent are published, as well as the results of the annual audit, which is mandatory for all NGOs.

Chulpan Khamatova, actress, founder of the Give Life Foundation, mother of three daughters.

Why did you start doing charity work?

My whole history in charity began with a meeting with doctors. I saw extraordinary people, sensitive doctors with unpetrified hearts, and I realized that they needed help. If there are such fireflies on this planet that are fighting for the lives of children, then I have no right to leave them alone in this struggle. I saw how volunteers work, these people with big, kind hearts. I was struck by their dedication. And, of course, I met the children. It is a separate happiness for me to come to them, play, chat ...
Our first action was a charity concert "Give Life", which took place on Children's Day on June 1, 2005 at the Sovremennik Theater. This concert brought together artists, volunteers, philanthropists. And then action after action began. It became clear that it was necessary to create a fund, to somehow systematize assistance.

How has your work with the foundation changed you?

I became more open. My ability to communicate has grown. Previously, I mostly communicated only with people of the theater and cinema, and most interesting topic for me there was a discussion of the role drawing. Now amazing children and their parents, doctors and nurses, volunteers are constantly next to me, and these are the people of the most different professions and social strata.
After getting to know the children who are treated in our hospitals and entering the special world of their childhood, where life and death, joy and suffering, pain and despair are perceived in all their sharpness and uncompromisingness, I learned a lot myself and understood a lot. She became absolutely immune to philistine conversations, “problems” that are not. I learned to distinguish what is nonsense and stupidity, insignificant fuss, banal egoism, and what is really important and urgent. We must always remember that there is nothing more important in life than the health of the people around us.

What does this activity give you personally?

I'm probably selfish and just enjoy it. Some incredible pleasure from the fact that I see children who are being treated and discharged, I see their eyes. It lifts my spirits when I see the spirits lift in the parents of children who know that they are not left alone with grief. They look so that neither fame, nor ratings, nor all this tinsel associated with the concept of "popular artist" is needed. And that makes me happy.
It gives me a lot of love. We live in a time when the concept of "love" is devalued. Every person feels the lack of love, tenderness, warmth. I am like happy man, I receive such an avalanche of warmth, kindness, love, that then I live for a very long time. In addition, I live with a sense of belonging to changing reality in the truest sense of the word. And this is also a wonderful feeling that productively, positively, constructively moves me forward. I understand why I live on this earth. I have an app, I'm a happy person.

Why do people start doing charity work?

Each has its own prerequisites. Someone simply cannot but feel someone else's pain and someone else's grief. And all the impulses of the outstretched hand and goodness occur in him unconsciously. There are people who are afraid of God and want to change their lives in order not to be tormented by this fear. There are people who need weight in society. Maybe they do not feel someone else's pain, but they exist in society and it is important for them to look good in it. I am very glad that Russia is developing Social responsibility companies and individuals, and many people feel they should do charity work because it has a positive effect on their reputation.

What do you need to do to start helping?

And you look into the eyes of these children, their mothers and doctors, to understand that something needs to be done. It's obvious and all. I am very glad that there are people who only have to hint about the problem, and they are already running to the hospital, coming up with something, connecting friends. They are very different, these people. There are those among them who have serious capital. And there are very poor people who are also ready to help. And they carry one hundred, some a thousand rubles, come up after the performances and hand over the money in envelopes that simply say “Children”. But the main thing in helping is sincerity, disinterestedness, because this is something eternal and unshakable.