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The Lifeline project started in 1996 when we were asked to help two Russian children with leukaemia, a 14 year old girl Sasha and 12 year old boy Alexey. They needed bone marrow transplants which were not available in Russia but they did not have the £75,000 needed for this chance of life.
We raised the money and they both had successful transplants at Hammersmith Hospital in London; Sasha is now a 26 year old artist and Alexey is a chef in St Petersburg.
Following their return home we offered the Russian doctors the possibility to accept one patient per year for transplant. The Russian hospital immediately referred seven more children! We knew that there was not enough money or capacity in the UK for such a number, and so we wrote to hospitals around the world seeking help. Of all the countries we contacted only Italy offered to help. First Pavia and Genova Gaslini hospitals and subsequently Padova hospital accepted our children, and our first patients were transplanted without charge. It was an amazing humanitarian gesture and it gave us the confidence to continue with the work and accept more children for life-saving transplants. Children are now treated in 8 Italian cities as well as several UK hospitals
Since that time we have expanded our work to include patients from Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan (plus a few children from Romania and other countries). In the last 13 years we have helped several thousand children, and each week more are referred to us. |
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PAUL O'GORMAN LIFELINE Registered Charity No 1108060 Long Barn, Houghton, Arundel, W Sussex BN18 9LN, UK. phone +44 (0) 1798 831 982 fax +44 (0) 870 4787529 e mail lifeline@venik.freeserve.co.uk or lifeline@spamarrest.com
LIFELINE ITALIA ONLUS via Marcanova 6, 35137 Padova, Italia cell +39 335 602 8602 e mail: info@lifelineitalia.org |