Press release 18.11.2013: New medication for Aurela ~ Dosages increased

This entry was first published in German on the World Life Vision e.V. Blog by Ulf Hundeiker

"Ulf Hundeiker is just back from Düsseldorf where he posted medication for nearly 190 Euro to Prishtina.

Aurelas medication (Mercaptopurin)

photo credit: Ulf Hundeiker

The little Balkan country is still on its knees even 14 years after the official end of the war in Kosovo and five years after Germany and the UK amongst others have recognised the country. No real welfare system exists nor is a health insurance available.  

“The latter is a big problem - in this case for Aurela!" says Ulf Hundeiker. Because the by now 2 year old girl from Kosovo suffers from leukaemia. And only a stem cell transplantation can heal the girl fully. "I fundraise since a while on the account of the non-profit organisation World Life Vision as the transplantation would cost up to 250.000 Euro and Aurela's parents are, like most people in Kosovo, not rich." as the 41 year- old from Muenster, Germany says. 

The Haliti family has to raise all funds for her therapy and is because of this already highly in debt. "Some of the drugs for the maintenance chemotherapy is not available in Kosovo. I buy those here mostly out of my own pockets." This time friends have helped him though, as the former nurse who can not work in his profession anymore for health reasons is not rich either. Particularly as the dosage for the just send Mercaptopurin just had to be doubled. Which means double costs: “187,34 Euro for the next three months. The donations are for the stem cell transplantation. I have paid for both journeys to Kosovo and what comes with it myself."

Aurela with a teddy on

her shoulders

photo credit: Ulf Hundeiker

By now there have been donations of more than 17.000 Euro - but the goal - to save Aurela's life, is still far away. All her younng parents Kosovare and Flamur Haliti's hopes lay on him.  

“I won't give up! Every life is worth to fight for it!" 

Info: 

~ http://pleasehelpaurela.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/faq-how-can-i-help-aurela.html

~ http://www.worldlifevision.org/index.php/WLV2012-1002

~ http://pleasehelpaurela.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/we-need-you-please-help-aurela.html

Donations Account:
World Life Vision e. V. (gemeinnützig)
Account Number 4740084
Bank code 830 654 10
Deutsche Skatbank
BIC GENODEF1ALT
IBAN DE68 83065410 0004740084"

The long way: A book by Kerstin Ludwig. To save Aurela's life

This entry was first posted in German on the World Life Vision e.V. Blog on July 28th 2013. The book is only available in German.



" This is the introduction to the book which Kerstin offers to download for free but asks for a donation for Aurela's stem cell transplantation. This is used instead of an article about the book:


"Life is fragile. People can have accidents, others might be out to get their life - and sometimes people just get ill.

Our medicine has come far. Many illnesses can be healed today. Cancer does not automatically mean a death sentence anymore thanks to therapy and medication.

But there are parts of the world where people just have enough to survive. Where there is no health insurance. Where "cancer" still is a death sentence because no one can afford the therapy or medication. There the line between death and life has to do with how much you can afford and not how easily the illness can be treated.

This is even harder if it hits a child that hardly had time to live.

Aurela is one of those children. Not even two years old her life is threatened to end before it even started. Aurela suffers from AML: Acute Myelogenous Leukaemia in children. This illness is easy to to treat but the costs are so exorbitantly high that her family just can not afford it. They live in Kosovo beneath the poverty line and do not have insurance that could pay for the costs. They are already highly in debt.  

You can find more information about Aurela here:
http://www.worldlifevision.org/index.php/WLV2012-1002

There might be many children out there like Aurela. And I surely can not save all of them. But I want to try to save this one. 

I do not have the money to give Aurela the chance to a life in health. But I have this book. I have written these stories with the help of the readers of my blog for a project for Christmas. The readers gave me keywords and I made stories out of them. This is a community project. Without those keywords, which are sometimes quite unusual, I could not have done this.

This lead to small or bigger stories which have a central theme and are a mirror of the readers of my blog as well as myself. In a way this book is a little like me: chaotic, creative, certainly not normal, but I do not want to be normal anyway.

The keywords are put in front of every story - which means it also became a little "spot the keyword" game: Did I really manage to make a story of every keyword? On top of that I used stories that have not been published on my blog. There are no keywords for those. They are just there and stand for themselves.

If you read this you probably have downloaded the book via one of the publishers and I thank you for the time you are taking to follow my thoughts. You have seen that this book is available for free.

The only thing I ask for is a donation for Aurela. I do not want any money I get along. But this child and many others do not.

I hope the money helps another World Life Vision project if it should not be possible to save this child. My "thank you" goes to Ulf Hundeiker, who gave me the idea for these stories with his aid project. 

Ulf you are the greatest. Even though you do not want to believe this.

Donations:
World Life Vision e. V. (Gemeinnützig)

Note to payee/project number: WLV2012-1002
Account: 4740084
Bank code: 83065410
Deutsche Skatbank

payments from other countries than Germany please use

BIC GENODEF1ALT
IBAN DE68 83065410 0004740084

download:

.mobi (Amazon-Kindle-compatible)
.epub
.pdf "

New Donations for Aurela

This entry was first posted on 1st August 2013 on the German WorldLifeVision e.V. Aurela blog:

"Today we have received a donation of 1000 Euro! A big thank you to the generous donors. With this the amount of donations has risen to 16.000 Euro. You can find the exact amount on the bottom of the project page.  And again a HUGE thank you to all of you who have given small or big amounts and have helped with lots of other activities that we could collect so much. Please do go on helping in this way and if you can not give any money any mentions, posts and other publicity does help a lot as well so that we soon will have the amount to afford the stem cell transplantation for Aurela. Project Aurela: http://www.worldlifevision.org/index.php/WLV2012-1002 "

Big and small donation

This entry was first posted on August 18th 2013 on the German Aurela Blog

Two weeks ago two big donations arrived: a young woman had collected 500 Euro in her circle of friends and family and another person was so touched that she or he gave 1000 Euro. There are also countless smaller donations for which we are very grateful as every penny counts. 

Since yesterday the amount of donations is 16 604,72 Euro. Not bad for a campaign with practically no recourses! But the truth still is: We need more. More donations and more people who motivate others to donate as well. Because a stem cell transplantation costs in Russia about 80.000, and in Germany about 250 000 Euro.

And Aurela wants to live! She wants to meet her little sibling which is on its way. And her family just wants a happy family life. 

Information and donation (also paypal)