SoftServe Сharity Fund «Open Eyes» has opened a Positive Room in Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital
IT ClusterSoftServe Сharity Fund «Open Eyes» in cooperation with the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital doctors have equipped the Positive Room”. The project was realized due to charitable donations from SoftServe company, its associates and other committed and involved people.
Project partners: Bureau Kuhlman and designer Anastasia Maslova.
«Our Fund helps to equip public hospitals with unique spaces for rapid rehabilitation and psychological well-being improvement of young patients who are treating in the hospital for a long-term time or while fighting against disease. The new space gives an opportunity for little patients to catch up with the school curriculum with teachers; to stay in an alternative to the hospital rooms place, play games, relax, read books, watch educational films and cartoons. Just to stay a child, not a patient,» said Roman Perepichka, project coordinator of the Сharity Fund «Open Eyes».
Every year, almost 11,000 children from the Kharkiv district, Kharkiv city, Donetsk, Luhansk districts are admitted to the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital. Children with the most serious, life-threatening illnesses receive treatment here: congenital malformations, congenital heart defects, cirrhosis, Crohn’s disease, Gaucher disease, multiple sclerosis, orphan diseasesс, etc.
SoftServe Сharity Fund «Open Eyes» has opened a Positive Room in Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital
SoftServe Сharity Fund «Open Eyes» in cooperation with the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital doctors have equipped the «Positive Room». The project was realized due to charitable donations from SoftServe company, its associates and other committed and involved people. Project partners: Bureau Kuhlman and designer Anastasia Maslova.
«Our Fund helps to equip public hospitals with unique spaces for rapid rehabilitation and psychological well-being improvement of young patients who are treating in the hospital for a long-term time or while fighting against disease. The new space gives an opportunity for little patients to catch up with the school curriculum with teachers; to stay in an alternative to the hospital rooms place, play games, relax, read books, watch educational films and cartoons. Just to stay a child, not a patient», said Roman Perepichka, project coordinator of the Сharity Fund «Open Eyes».
Fundraising for Positive Rooms in Kyiv and Chernivtsi is planned this year. Funding for the project is based on fundraising.
About SoftServe
SoftServe Inc., founded in 1993 in Lviv, Ukraine, is a global digital authority that advises and provides at the cutting-edge of technology. SoftServe is one of the largest software development companies in Central and Eastern Europe and the largest Ukrainian service IT company. With its United States headquarters in Austin, Texas, and European headquarters in Lviv, Ukraine, we employ over 8,000 people in 50 offices in 12 countries, the United States and Europe. Developer offices of the company are situated in Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sofia (Bulgaria), Wroclaw, Bialystok, Gliwice and Warsaw (Poland).
About the Сharity Fund «Open Eyes»
In 2014, a corporate Open Eyes Charity Fund was established as a medium for SoftServe’s associates to initiate charitable projects, raise funds internally for the projects implementation and volunteer as project teams’ members. In 2017, Open Eyes fundraising platform became public and in this way the Fund now provides an opportunity for everyone, including SoftServe’s associates, to participate in financing the Fund’s charitable initiatives.
Сharity Fund «Open Eyes» encourages partners to cooperate for a good cause. On the Fund’s website, you can contribute to a certain project and facilitate long-term hospital stay for children.