Lviv hosts the  campaign “Cork for life” which consists in a mass gathering by residents of the city of plastic corks from bottles, yoghurt, pens, creams, medicines and transfering them to the of the recycling company. Raised money will be transferred to account of CF of “Sister Delilah” for the purchase of essential medicines for patients with pulmonary hypertension.

IA ZIK reported the Lviv Charitable Foundation of “Sister Delilah”

Currently there are about forty people with PH in the Lviv region, the rare incurable disease. Because of the increased pressure in the pulmonary artery, the person can’t breathe freely. Each of them requires from 40 to 120 thousand UAH per month for treatment, depending on the severity of the disease.

Unfortunately, there are no government programs of providing these patients with appropriate medicines in Ukraine. That is why often these people are left on their own with the sinister disease and simply don’t get treatment.

Residents of the Lviv leave collected corks in schools, hospitals, district administration, supermarkets, cafes, where the special containers are placed. Every 2 months corks are brought together in collection point, namely, a boarding school number 2, at Prosvity st., 2.

” Gather corks from plastic bottles of yogurt, pens, set your own containers, tell friends about the event, take photos with the 5-liter bottle cork, place it on the page in Facebook and get a certificate to “Children’s Planet”, say the organizers.

Places of corks collection:

1. Lviv City Council – Rynok square, 1.

2. Regional Administration:

1) Galytska Administration – List st., 1

2) Zaliznychna Administration – Vyhovskoho st.,34

3) Lychakivska Administration – Levytskoho st., 67

4) Sykhivska Administration – Ch.Kalyny st., 66

5) Frankivska Administration – Henerala Chuprynky st., 85

6) Shevchenkivska Administration – Lypynskoho st., 11

3. Schools.

4. Baby Planet (Sky Park) – Stryyska st., 202

5. Arena Lviv – Stryyska st., 199

6. Park named after B.Hmelnytskoho – Bolharska st., 4

7. Lviv National Library of Stefanik – Stefanika st., 2.

8. The central office of “Association of Samopomich” – Mickiewicz sq., 6/7.

9. Office of “Association of Samopomich” in Sykhivskiy district – Chervonoyi Kalyny st., 64.

Information

The “Cork for life” is a joint project of the Lviv City Center of Social Services for Families, Children and Youth and Lviv City Charitable Foundation of “Sister Delilah.” The aim is to help people suffering from pulmonary hypertension and purge the city from the most widespread today rubbish – plastic.

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