First child born in "New Life" Neonatal Centre in Kirovohrad

The first child was born on March 6th, in the "New Life" Neonatal Centre in Kirovohrad. A baby-girl named Alina was born on March, 1. She was delivered through C-section surgery, weighing 2470g. The child came into the world before expected due date, on 34^th week of pregnancy.
Currently, the little girl is nursed in the intensive care unit “Cradles of Hope”, fully equipped by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation within the framework of the government project “New Life”. The newborn undergoes infusion therapy and receives ventilatory support through the Infant Flow nCPAP generator, while her vital body functions are being constantly monitored.
Olena Kryvorozhenko, head of perinatal centre in of Kirovohrad: "With this equipment we were able to immediately respond to the needs of the child born with moderate health condition. New equipment makes it easier to stop the flow of oxygen and allows us to apply the latest technology in nursing premature babies."
In 2011 the Victor Pinchuk Foundation became a partner in the national project “New Life” initiated by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and made a commitment to supply intensive care units for newborns with modern medical equipment, allocating for this purpose UAH 100 million. The overall cost of the medical and computer equipment handed over to Kirovohrad centre totals UAH 4 223 671.00.
Since “Cradles of Hope” program launch, 151 855 infants have been born in partner hospitals. 26 566 of them were patients of intensive care and resuscitation units. According to doctors, 12 452 babies were saved due to, among other things, the equipment installed within the "Cradles of Hope" project.
The overall costs the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has invested into the program "Cradles of Hope” since its launch in 2006 totals 52 023 032.00 UAH.

Victor Pinchuk is the first Ukrainian private citizen to be honored in the “Time 100 – The World’s 100 Most Influential People” list by Time Magazine

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is proud to announce that Victor Pinchuk is listed as one of the "2010 Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People" in Time Magazine, published on April 29, 2010. Mr. Pinchuk is listed in the "Thinkers" section, among the most influential thinkers in the world -- along with Apple founder Steve Jobs, Minister Mentor of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, newly appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and designer Zaha Hadid.
Time Magazine's world-renowned list comprises an exclusive group of highly distinguished international leaders and innovators. Victor Pinchuk, as a non-partisan philanthropist and businessman, is the first Ukrainian private citizen to be thus distinguished. In 2005, then-President Viktor Yushchenko was the first Ukrainian on the list.
Mr. Pinchuk is highly honoured by this nomination, which sees as a reward for his many years of commitment to setting trends in philanthropy in Ukraine: "It is a big honour for me to be the first representative of Ukraine's civil society to be distinguished by Time Magazine."
Victor Pinchuk added: "This distinction goes not only to me, but to the whole Ukrainian people. To all the Ukrainian citizens who managed to keep the country going and develop it even in times of crisis and political instability. And to Ukraine as my nation, the country that allowed me to be what I am today."
For over 12 years Mr. Pinchuk has implemented philanthropic projects in Ukraine; in 2006, he consolidated them under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation. With his foundation, Victor Pinchuk has sought to serve and support the Ukrainian people in a non-partisan approach and to trigger change in the country in areas like healthcare, education, art and international relations. The foundation's projects include a network of neonatal centres, Cradles of Hope, the largest private nation-wide scholarship program in Ukraine, Zavtra.UA, the largest contemporary art centre in Eastern Europe, PinchukArtCentre, and the international network Yalta European Strategy (YES) to support Ukraine's European integration.
Sir Elton John, who supports the efforts of Victor Pinchuk and his wife, Elena Franchuk, to combat HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, declared in his appreciation of Victor Pinchuk for the "Time 100" list: "Victor Pinchuk is the leading advocate for bringing his country into the European Union. He is heroic in his fight against anti-Semitism as well, and he collaborated with Steven Spielberg on a film that calls attention to the plight of the Ukrainian Jewish community during the Holocaust. Through his work in all these fields, Victor shows his love of our planet and makes the world a better place to live."
Victor Pinchuk declared: "The mission of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is to enable the next generation to become the change makers of tomorrow. I hope our initiatives will contribute to having in the future many Ukrainian scientists, thinkers, artists and social leaders on the "Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People" list."

via pinchukfund.org

As part of “Cradles of Hope” program the Victor Pinchuk Foundation conducted training courses in Zhytomyr for specialists of medical institutions

During July 2011, under the "Cradles of Hope" program, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation held week-long training courses at the "Cradles of Hope" centre of Zhytomyr regional centre of mother and child health care to train 12 professionals from Kirovohrad regional hospital. Training courses were held with financial support of the Foundation. The courses’ mission was to prepare specialists before opening of the "New Life" perinatal centre in the Kirovohrad region, where the Victor Pinchuk Foundation also opens "Cradles of Hope" intensive care unit for newborns.
The training program involved dealing with a wide range of issues, including organization of a modern perinatal centre, the interaction of all its departments, duties of employees, medical aspects of childbirth, intensive care and subsequent nursing of premature newborns. Each group of trainees consisted of an obstetrician-gynaecologist, obstetrician, neonatologist and intensive care unit nurse.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation provides systematic training for medical staff of the "Cradles of Hope" partner clinics. The project training activities were conducted in 13 institutions and attended by 376 health workers from all regions of Ukraine.
In early June 2011 the Victor Pinchuk Foundation became a partner in the national project "New Life" which involves opening of perinatal centres in all regions of Ukraine. Through this partnership, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will equip neonatal intensive care departments in all 27 perinatal centres opened under the project. For these purposes, the Foundation will allocate UAH 100 million.

Tatyana Bakhteeva: Any contribution to saving lives is important

Ukrainian philanthropic charitable initiatives are the clear example of the social responsibility in business. But alas, the existing tax system is not stimulating business activities in the social sphere.
Taking into account the health condition of our citizens and the limited availability of health services, any contribution to saving the lives and health can not be evaluated other than as important and necessary.

About Viktor Pinchuk

Victor Pinchuk is one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen, whose role in civic, international affairs and charitable organizations has made him a leader in Ukraine’s growing interaction with Europe and the world.
Born in Kyiv in 1960, he graduated with honours from the Dnipropetrovs’k Metallurgical Institute in 1983 and earned a PhD degree in 1987 before starting his career as a research engineer in pipe production.

V.Pinchuk speech at the 2nd Davos Philanthropic roundtable, 2009

During the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation hosted the 2nd Davos Philanthropic Roundtable. The event gathered founders and leaders of the foremost philanthropic institutions of the world.

Philanthropy in Ukraine - PR or a generous impulse?

The tradition of helping the deprived and donating to charity is new to the independent Ukraine.
Patronage is the new concept for many people and somewhat smirched with some charitable foundations that served to launder money. Besides, the government is not interested that the rich help the poor.
On all-Ukrainian Charity Day, marked on each second Sunday of December, Anastasia Daugule, Podrobnosti correspondent, has tried to find out who the Ukrainian philanthropists are. This time is just fit for the active patronage, when winter holidays begin. Starting from St. Nicholas day till the New Year and Christmas day all kinds of philanthropists invade schools and orphanages. But once the New-Year trees are out, charitable activities die down, exactly for six months before Children's Day marked in summer.
By a happy coincidence cameras are always switched on when politicians, businessmen and showmen are reeling off with little deprived Ukrainians.