Katya Bermant Biography

Charity with Katya Bermant. Today, the heroine of Katya is the director of the Fund for Assisting Children with severe diseases of the liver “Life as a Miracle” Anastasia Cherepanova. Over the eight years of existence, the fund helped more than a little ward, in need of treatment and medical care. For about a year now I have been interviewed by directors of charitable foundations.

Our conversations are slightly different from the interview with “ordinary” journalists. Because I am “in the subject” because I really love these people, because I want as many people as possible to find out about our work. Why people actually create charitable foundations - a separate issue. As a rule, all this is being built on its personal or someone close to trouble.

Yes, the parent, who has lived with his child in the hospital for several years, no longer represents another life. Yes, a man who has come to the hospital as a volunteer and who came out of there with his heart, thus tries to restore lost harmony. Yes, a random passer -by, briefly seeing the life of orphans in an orphanage, can never forget these pictures. In all these cases, work in a charitable organization is a way to win.

To defeat death, injustice, fear. There are, however, cases when the fund is created in the wake of joy from the already committed victory. One saved life will give a chance to many others. So it was, for example, with me. There is a huge problem: each of us believes that he is a “little man”. He habitually believes that some other people should save, love and change the world for the better.

Some special heroes. Who are they? Yes, we are with you! You can say: “Where is the world rolling? I graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, but as a journalist I managed to work very long and much later, in the Public Chamber. And at the very beginning, at the age of 16, I was lucky to get acquainted with Jamily Aliyeva, director and founder of the Nastenka Foundation.

A random announcement on the Internet that they collect diapers and everything necessary for the children's oncological department brought me to the hospital. And after meeting with the friends of the fund that came to these meetings, any other activities became simply impossible: for several years I worked as a volunteer in the fund, earned an English tutor for babies.

Once Jamila asked if I want to go to work in the fund? Of course I wanted! Together with Nastenka, I graduated from a special course of the Higher School of Economics in PR and Fandraise in the non -profit sphere, fell in love with these hospital corridors, no matter how terrible it could sound. After there were other social projects: “Assistance map” to those who suffered from fires in the year, for example.

For it, the project team was given the Runet Prize. But it was a completely volunteer initiative. An incredible person wrote to me - Alexey Moshkovich. He is no longer with us to great grief. He established the Fund in the year and his name was “Family. Alexei did not have any personal story, he just really wanted to help. Once having met the mothers who expected an operation to transplant the liver of their children, Alexei decided to help children with severe liver diseases - there was no such area of ​​activity in charity.

He was not a very wealthy man, but his heart was completely boundless, Alexey generously shared his care with others. One of the programs of the fund at targeted assistance to children was called “Life as a Miracle” - this name became our motto, after we renamed the Fund. And the family, traditions and mercy remain our main values. And does this "involvement" change over time, because you have been working for a very long time?

The fund is how to brush your teeth and stay with your son. I have a wonderful team with which I would like to grow old, with which we love to work together in our house - in the office of the fund. But we all have a family, hobbies. We must look for a balance, because the work will never end - it can simply be interrupted, stand up and say to yourself: "Everything, evening, it's time to go home." When we take a child for a large collection, for example.

Now you need to buy a drug for a brother and sister from the Voronezh region for 4 million - this is a gigantic money that I have, none of us, the fund's employees.

All the donations that come almost immediately go to business: to pay for the examination to one child, buy equipment for the clinic. But we take this task. Every day we see 10 rubles by bit, 50, .... We sincerely believe that our Alexei helps us even now. So, from a huge amount of human kindness, it turns out to pay the necessary for the wards of the fund - is this not a miracle?

There is still something to burn? But there are definitely exactly moments of fatigue, then you just need to take a day off the day off and better for a week. Often this happens to everyone at once in the team - then we are settled on the couch, cut the sandwiches and laugh a lot. There are changes for the better?Those operations that children did not do some ten years ago in our country are already successfully possible in Russia.

The main category of our wards are children who either have already undergone an operation to transplant the liver, or are only prepared for it. Movement for the better and quite serious occurs every year. But there is another side where it is still poorly established. On the one hand, the development of medicine, on the other hand, problems with the provision of drugs, especially in the regions, especially in rare, orphan diseases.

What would you do the most-most and first? It is clear here - other scales, literally planetary. How would you dispose of this convenient gadget for the benefit of mankind? But because of the pursuit of second values, we just forgot how to use it. But there is nothing better than just enjoy life, to value every day, to be merciful, goodbye to resentment. It is more often to spend time with who you want to be near.

There is constant fatigue from running with obstacles, we run through life, but it is not endless, we must leave time for the joy of the moment. Do we have such a person or abroad? I also want to remember Elizavet Petrovna Glinka - a person with incredible energy, she was just where she was needed; Simple, humane, with their weaknesses, bad habits and endless love for those who needed it.

This is incredibly inspired!