In Lviv will be collecting corks for patients with pulmonary hypertension. How to get involved? – Publication on the portal of “Your Town” 08/23/2015
Lviv hosts a perpetual campaign “Cork for Life” which encourages residents to collect plastic corks from bottles, yoghurt, pens, creams, medicines and transfer them to recycling company. Funds raised for collecting corks would be transferred for the purchasing of essential medicines for patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Informs the press service of the Lviv City Council.
For this in different buildings around Lviv (schools, hospitals, district administration, supermarkets, cafes) an appropriate containers, where you can leave corks, would be established. Every 2 months corks are brought together in collection point, namely, a boarding school № 2, at Prosvity st., 2.
Places of collection of corks:
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.
Reference
Campaign “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.
Pulmonary hypertension is a rare incurable disease. Because of the increased pressure in the pulmonary artery, the person can not breathe freely. Currently there are about forty people with this diagnosis in the Lviv region. Each of them needs from 40 to 120 thousand UAH per month for treatment, depending on the severity of the disease.There are no government programs of providing patients with medicines.