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About

The Hospice Charity Fund Vera was established in November 2006 (State Registration Certificate of November 28, 2006; registration number 1067799030826). Our top priority is to provide a constant flow of charity support to the First Moscow Hospice (FMH).

Fund's activities include:

  • programs and projects to provide financial and social assistance to the First Moscow Hospice, its patients and staff.
  • welfare and financial support for incurable oncology patients and their relatives;
  • organizing educational programs for hospice staff and volunteers;
  • generating public interest to the problems of hospices and their patients in Russia.
  • assisting in introducing a course in “Palliative medicine” into the curriculum of medical schools in Russia.
  • helping other hospices in Russia and CIS.
 
 
 
WHAT'S NEW
07.07.2010
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
 
http://www.anticancerways.com/ Internationally Acclaimed, New York Times Best Seller: Anticancer: A New Way of Life When David Servan-Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, his life changed. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness and the little-known workings of his body's natural cancer -fighting capacities, and marshaling his own will to live, Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-¬year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration and, finally, to health.
 
01.06.2010
Talking Frankly at the End of Life
 
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years thinking, writing and speaking about end-of-life care, but this issue recently became quite personal for me. My mother-in-law died two weeks ago.
A ringer in her youth for Donna Reed, with Rita Hayworth legs, my mother-in-law possessed a dazzling memory and a designer’s flair, and she loved to surround herself with family and friends ("where the action is," she used to say). She spent most of her 86 years following her husband across the country, teaching art in the schools where he taught. But wherever they landed, she managed always to make new friends. Lots of friends. When one of her sons passed away, she and my father-in-law received more than six hundred letters of condolence.
But by the time my mother-in-law died 14 days ago, her social circle had shrunk considerably. She had been battling rheumatoid arthritis for almost 50 years, a series of debilitating strokes for 10, and the ulcers on her legs that would not heal would, in the final year of her life, necessitate an above-the-knee amputation. Over the last few months, unable to hold a pen to write and too weak to speak into a phone, my mother-in-law saw her social life whither away. Her once expansive world was reduced to the square footage accessible by wheelchair and amenable to the trappings of all the medical equipment she needed.

 
01.01.2010
Happy New year!
 

 
18.11.2009
We are proud to announce the publication of: Life Stories:Original Fiction By Russian Authors
 
This is a wonderful new collection of original works by 19 leading Russian writers. They are life-affirming stories of love, family, hope, rebirth, mystery and imagination. A novelist catches up with his future... a president is under house arrest after setting off a nuclear war... an off-planet skipper leads a hunt for a mysterious life-giving creature... a single mother protects her disabled son... a man finds serenity in his vacation-emptied city... a woman looks for love in silence... a thunderstorm turns lives upside down... an oligarch makes a unexpected career change... a detective solves a murder and doesn’t like what he finds... a family copes with Russia’s medieval future... a traveler grapples with Pushkin’s killer... a disaffected son mourns his mother...
 
16.07.2007
A Message of Hope
 
An article by Yelena Komarova MNWeekly
 
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