OREANDA-NEWS. March 26, 2010. The OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation has organized charitable festivities “Share Your Smile,” held at the Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. The ice show “New Year's Fairy Tale at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard” was attended by more than 500 children patients of the Public Institution “Blokhin Russian Oncological Research Center” (GURONTs) and other Moscow oncological centers, as well as children from children's homes and special orphan asylums. Father Frost and Snow Maiden presented gifts to children, while clowns and animators entertained their young audience during intermissions.

“Performances for young patients have become traditional,” said Irina Sedykh, President of the Board of Trustees of the OMK-Uchastiye Foundation. “We invited children from the Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Research Institute, OMK doctors and employees with their children, and children from orphan asylums. The invited children participated in our act of charity. The young participants’ paintings and other things they made were put up for sale in the circus lobby. The raised money was used to help children patients.”

“The Foundation’s benefit was as successful as the one they organized last year,” said Vladimir Polyakov, Chief Pediatric Oncologist of the Russian Ministry of Public Health and Social Development. “The children patients were taken to the performance and back by bus. They were delighted and kept talking about the show for a long time.”

The money raised (about 1.4 million rubles) from the sale of tickets and children's paintings and other items made by them will be used to purchase medical instruments, equipment, and consumables materials for the Blokhin Russian Oncological Research Center.

From the time of its establishment, the OMK-Uchastiye Foundation provided about 14 million rubles to help children patients. These donations helped to save dozens of children’s lives.

Organizers of the festivities: OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation (www.omk-uchastie.ru) and the Blokhin Russian Oncological Research Center. Information partners: the V Mire Nauki magazine.