NEW YEAR WISH TREE 2017

Every year the organizers look for children in need, have their photos taken and publish the photo shoot online accompanying each picture with a short information about the child that includes the diagnosis and kid’s New Year wish. Since 2010, Voxpopuli.kz and Sputnik shopping center have been the supporters of the project by Komanda SOS. And every year, Sputnik puts up a new year tree with the children’s photographs so any citizen may try on Santa’s costume and choose the child they want to make happy.

Last year our numerous Santas made the children with palsy (Association of parents of children with disabilities (ARDI) happy by fulfilling their New Year wishes.  Among the beneficiaries of the New Year Wish Tree 2017 will be 16 young patients of the Center for the Support and Development of children with cancer “Ya S Toboi” (I’m with you) organized by “Zdorovaya Aziya” (Healthy Asia) foundation. These are kids from four to 14 years, – told Grigoriy Lee of Komanda SOS. – We have also made a commitment to help several families where children have cancer. These children are also monitored by the center even though they live in remote villages of Almaty oblast. In addition to the gifts, families will receive food baskets.

The New Year Wish Tree organizer Zhadyra Sarman adds, – we are raising money for the surgery of a 4-year-old Lera Gerasyuk. The girl has a stage 4 neurofibromatosis (tumor of the eyelids). As they told us at the center, just until recently, the child’s condition was severe that non-domestic clinics did not dare to accept the girl for an operation. However, not long ago Lera’s state has improved enough to be accepted by one of Moscow’s clinics for the operation. If you would like to donate any part of the surgery’s cost of 1 500 000 tenge, please, use the following bank details: Halyk Bank, card No. 4402 5735 9099 0489, cordholder is Lera’s mother, Natalya Sergeyevna Gerasyuk, card account: KZ056010002007752796. The phone number for details: +7 771 191 7954.

In the first few days after the report on New Year Wish Tree with snapshots of the sick children was published on Voxpopuli.kz and the New Year tree with photos was installed in the Sputnik shopping mall, the organizers have begun receiving calls from compassionate people ready to become a Santa Claus for a special child with simple needs any kid would wish – toys. Delivering the gifts to their rightful owners is planned for January 13.

If you already have chosen whose New Year dream you would like to make come true, please contact the organizers of the project – Grigoriy and Zhadyra or call the foundation in Almaty at 346 92 88. If you would like to help the “Ya S Toboi” center, they would be happy to accept board games (chess, football and hockey). They can be reached at 266 36 36 (Almaty).