Projects

Island of Children

Projects

The Fund Rugutė maintains its purposes by implementing the following projects:

Social Support for the Families

The Fund supports families with foodstuffs, caring devices and medicines necessary in course of the treatment. Protecting patient’s rights for the treatment quality and availability of modern and effective treatment the Fund case by case pays for individual consultations or covers partial amount of treatment expenses in foreign clinics.

Palliative care

The Fund pays attention to children’s palliative care. We think that it is a must to understand the needs of sick child and his family during this period of treatment and to respect their decision to spend it at home or at hospital. Because of that, the Fund has bought oxygen concentrator, secretion aspirator, pulse oximeter and other equipment in 2007 and tries to ensure the quality palliative care at home for children who leave the hospital.

Accumulation of information on Childhood Cancer

The Fund pays particular attention to preparation and spread of information on children’s oncological diseases and care to the families with the sick children. All information prepared is published on the website www.rugute.lt.

Let’s Make Children’s with Oncological Diseases Dreams Come True

One of the most sensitive projects of the Fund aims to fulfil dreams of the sick children. They dream of various things.

Rugutė‘s Home

Rugutė‘s Home – a small cottage near Vilnius University Children Hospital, offering the space for the quality time and short-stay accommodation possibility for the families with the children with cancer.

Annual Event The Island of Friends

From year 2006 the Fund organizes the meeting The Island of Friends what became an annual celebrity. The aim of the meeting is to round up the families having similar destinies, encourage them to share social and medical information, experiences, thoughts and feelings as well as give a day of miracles for children.

Christmas Journey

Each year the Fund organizes its nice action Christmas Journey. During the action children patronized by the Fund are visited and Christmas presents are given.

Under the Angel’s Wings

The Rugutė‘s Home is home for the regular meetings of the self-relief group of the parents who lost their children to cancer called Under the Angel’s Wings.

Droplet of Blood

The Fund invites to follow its example and give a droplet of blood for children with the oncological diseases as well as to become active promoters of gratuitous donorship. Two times a year the action Droplet a Blood is being organized at the Rugutė‘s Home.

Support with medical equipment

The Fund initiates or joins various charity actions that aim to improve the quality of Lithuanian children with cancer treatment.

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