December 1, 2015
A personal appeal has appeared on the site of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of the Orthodox Church in America to help a father and his five year-old son who is battling leukemia in Bucharest, Romania. We are posting the appeal here in hopes that our readers will respond.
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This is a personal appeal from the heart to help the son of a dear friend of mine from Bucharest, Romania. We need your help to save Andrei’s life and give him the chance to have much needed surgery for the bone marrow transplant which he needs urgently.
ANDREI is a 5 year old boy who lives in Bucharest, Romania. He is joyful, friendly and intelligent, with an amazing smile and very peaceful demeanor. He is presently hospitalized after being diagnosed with leukemia this past summer (2015). After undergoing treatment for the past 5 months at Marie Curie Children’s Hospital in Bucharest, he was scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant at the Charity Clinic in Berlin, Germany at the beginning of the month of December 2015. The total cost of the operation is $145,000 Euros. His father, Teodor, who raised the boy by himself after the mother abandoned Andrei a few years ago, has already raised $105,000 Euros by selling his apartment in Bucharest, the furniture, house apparel, and then taking a bank loan and even obtaining some modest and much-appreciated support from family and friends. Besides all this, he appealed to the Health Ministry of the Romanian Government asking for the remaining funds to complete the total amount of the surgery. However, the Ministry of Health denied his request for the much-needed assistance because of lack of funds in their budget. The Charity Clinic in Berlin, Germany accepts to provide treatment only when the total cost will be paid before the operation takes place. I am appealing to your kindheartednes and generosity to assist me in raising the rest of the money, approximately $40,000 Euros, so that Andrei can have his surgery for bone marrow transplant in Berlin, Germany before December 10, 2015, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
Please consider this as a personal appeal from me, being a real and personal situation close to my heart as I speak as an ambassador and friend of the family who through me is seeking your kindness and generosity to save Andrei. Through your kindness, please assist us to raise the remaining funds to cover the cost of the transplant, which will put Andrei on the path of a health and a normal life!
Go to youcaring.com to help Andrei Badaru.
