Ukrainian
“You too can save lives”
Dear Friend
Diabetic children in Ukraine describe themselves as suffering with diabetes. In America we say we live with diabetes. We have access to high quality insulin, education, and treatment for complications. The reality is much different in Ukraine. Diabetics are offered U-40 insulin free of charge from the government; but must pay impossible prices for U-100 imported insulin. Few education clinics exist. It is not uncommon for a child in the village to develop a complication and not receive emergency medical care in time.
However, since 1990 through the efforts of the Ukrainian Diabetes Project there is hope. We are seeing transformation each year. We are seeing diabetic children smiling, no longer suffering from diabetes. Their attitudes are changing. Their health is improving.
Our vision, through direct diabetes education, is to improve diabetes health care in Ukraine, to help them change their attitude about the outcome of living with diabetes, to help them gain access to high quality health care, and to end the needless premature deaths of children with diabetes in Ukraine. Please review this site. We would like the opportunity to show you the difference we can make in a childs life.
Andrea Skrypka
Project Director
Mission Statement
The mission of the Ukrainian Diabetes Project is to provide diabetes/medical supplies to children with insulin-dependent diabetes living in Ukraine. In addition the Ukrainian Diabetes Project will provide and/or support the development and on-going diabetes education programs to improve and maintain their health and enable them to live normal productive lives.
Our Goals
Assist and support
To assist and support established diabetes programs in Ukraine by bringing updated education information and disseminating it to the children with diabetes
Increase number of children
To increase the number of children served by providing services to children in the remote villages of Ukraine
Provide supplies
To provide diabetic supplies to Ukrainian children with diabetes
Increase funding
To increase funding to expand and continue our programs
See photos of the children
then and now
and hear their stories…
Below:
Tanya at age 16.
Right:
with her husband and two
children, 2017
I live in Kyiv now. I’ve got married and given birth to two children. Our elder daughter turns four in a week and our younger daughter is only 5.5 months old. UDP was a great project and personally for me, it definitely had a life-changing impact
Tanya
Below:
Taras at age 10 with his mom and dad.
Right:
Taras with his wife and two children, 2017
Taras and his parents drove two hours to attend the educational diabetes classes in Cherkasy. As a grown man, he became a proud father of two children and lives in Kyiv. His parents are extremely grateful for the help of the Ukrainian Diabetes Project (UDP). In fact, they were most gracious hosts who opened their home to accommodate the UDP team during our many trips to Ukraine.
Taras
Below:
Lena at age 14
Right:
Lena with her neice and nephew,
2017.
I congratulate you all upon the jubilee year of the Ukrainian Diabetes Project. You helped me a lot teaching how to control and live with diabetes. Healthy food, correct insulin dose and doing lots of physical exercise—all the things you taught me then—I still use them now and feel quite comfortable about my life. You are doing a great job and I hope your Project will still help hundreds of unhappy children to manage the disease and change their life for the better. Wish you good luck and much happiness. Thanks you were all in my life. . .
Lena
Below:
Volodya at age 8
Right:
Volodya and family, 2017.
Volodymyr (Volodya) Boyko was born in 1988 and has had Type 1 diabetes since the age of 8. He graduated from the National Medical University, and now is an Endocrinologist at Kyiv City Clinic #7. Volodya is married and his spouse also has had type 1 diabetes since the age of 10. Their daughter Victoria was born in 2014.
Volodya
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