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Little Mara, born in March 2005, suffer from a severe congenital heart disease and needed an operation to survive. At the end of September Mara came to Sweden from her native country of Romania. She has now had a successful operation at the clinical department for children in Lund.

The picture was taken after the operation. At last Mara’s parents can breathe freely. Let us express our cordial gratitude to all contributors who made the operation possible! Thank you very much indeed!

2005-10-17

Yet another little Romanian baby girl, Andrea Maria, born in August 2005 in Bucharest has been operated upon in Lund by means of the Nedira Foundation. Thank you all who made it possible! Andrea Maria can now return to Romania together with her happy parents.

2005-12-10

A successful operation delivered Sevil from constant pains.

Sevil is 16 years old and comes from Tadzjikistan but lives with her family in Moscow. She was afflicted with scoliosis when she was 14. Through the agency of the Nedira Foundation she was successfully operated upon in Stockholm at the beginning of May 2004.

Sevil is now back in Moscow and after an absence of several years she has started to go to school again, in grade 11. She has also taken up sport again, thereby realizing a dream she has had. Being refugees, she and her family lead no simple lives but now that Sevil is well they can feel optimistic.

2004-10-20

Viktorija Martinova, a five-year-old Latvian girl with burn injuries, was given preliminary treatment in Malmö. Viktorija had been burnt on the front side of the upper part of her body and her arms in May 2000 when she was hardly three years old. Earlier she lived in an orphanage.

Viktorija has now been adopted by a family in Skåne (Scania). Even if she will need further care, this is no longer a Nedira Foundation matter. Viktorija, now a Swedish citizen, is entitled to public medical service in addition to having a safe and secure life with her new family.

We wish her welcome to Sweden and wish her all the best for her life!

2004-03-20

......... found a sanctuary in Staffanstorp

Ardita och Petrit lost contact with their family during the conflicts between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in the spring of 1999. The family were chased away from their home in the village of Drecina by the Serbian police. In the turmoil that ensued the two children got separated from the rest of the family and had to try to fend for themselves.

After two months on the run as fugitives they arrived in Tirana, the capital of Albania. There they happened to be filmed by Aktuellt of the Swedish Television and they appealed to an uncle in Sweden to be allowed to come to him. Their uncle watched the programme and saw his relatives. Together with Kurt Sköld of the Nedira Foundation he started a campaign to have the children come to Sweden. The Swedish authorities reacted quickly and the children could be brought by air from Albania. They arrived at Staffanstorp at the end of May.

At that time they didn’t know what had happened to the rest of the family but after two months they were told that their mother, father and little sisters and brothers had returned to the family home after three months on the run. By then the Serbs had left the village. After some time Ardita and Petrit could join their family. Ardita kept a secret diary about their experiences as victims of the Serbian terror in wartime Kosovo. That diary was a kind of therapy for Ardita. The diary was dedicated to and presented to Kurt Sköld when Ardita and Petrit returned home. Kurt delivered the diary and photos for publication so that everybody can study their account. Ardita is very pleased to know that the book has been published in Sweden.

Today the book is for sale in all Swedish bookshops and it is also sold in Albania. "Mitt hjärtas dagbok" (= Diary of My Heart) by Ardita Beqiri. ISBN: 91-89196-244e.

2004-03-20

The Bosnian boy Tarik came to visit relatives in Sweden and happened to stumble and fall on a broken bottle. He cut his hand very badly. The costs for the surgery that he had to undergo were defrayed by the Nedira Foundation.

Gleb, a Lithuanian boy, was born with a too short urethra. As a consequence of that he would have no capacity for reproduction. The Nedira Foundation has defrayed the costs of the operation and today Gleb lives a normal life with his parents in Lithuania.

Nadina was born with an eye disease involving a regression of the retina. She could not stand daylight and she was nearly going blind. The disease could not be cured with an operation. Instead a long period of rehabilitation is required. The Nedira Foundation was in a position to support a journey to Sweden in order to establish a treatment plan.

2001-02-02

Rebecka Cukura, 18 months old, was born with a heart-disease caused by a chromosome defect. Doctors in Latvia could not do anything about it. The Nedira Foundation sponsored a visit to Sweden for examainations but after all the tests she had to go back to Latvia and wait for a call up to the operation. She suffered from other diseases as well and never returned to Sweden.

2003-07-07

When Karolina Mikiewicz was seven years old, she fell into a giant cauldron of boiling soup at her grandmother’s place of work. This gave her 65% burns from her knees and upwards to her armpits. Karolina who lived in Swinousjcie in Poland could not get any help from Polish doctors. Then the Nedira Foundation came into the picture and helped Karolina come to Sweden. In Malmö skin was grafted again and again while Karolina was growing up. Other operations followed. Today Karolina is the mother of one child and lives happily in Poland.

2001-08-25

Le Cuong came from Vietnam to Sweden as he suffered from arthrogryposis, which is a disease of the joints that has given him a clubfoot as well as defective knees and hips.

Stefan Lind, senior physician at the County Hospital of Ryhov in Jönköping, tells us that the operation will not cure him completely but it has given him feet to stand on and walk with for the first time in his life. Cuong has also attended the ceremonies in connection with World Children Prize and Globen Friends Award where he received his mark of distinction out of Queen Silvia’s hands.

2004-12-08

Together with his parents Amir came to Sweden from Tuzla in Bosnia to have a heart operation. There was a hole in Amir’s heart and this caused difficulties in breathing and fast heart throbbing when he moved. This could lead to heart collapse. The Nedira Foundation collected money and the doctors performed a successful operation and thanks to this Amir is now able to run without having to worry about his heart.

2001-05-30

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