A wonderful man has passed away

On the night of September 18, Galina Chalikova, founder and director of the Gift of Life charity foundation, died. She was 53 years old. She was an unusually kind and selfless person. The foundation she created helps children with cancer, hematology and other serious diseases. Galina Chalikova herself died from cancer.

As they write on the website podari-zhizn.ru, the foundation “was born in her heart and in her kitchen under the continuous ringing of the phone.” Galina Chalikova seemed to be helping people 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to a message on the foundation’s website, mothers of sick children “called day and night, shared their small, big and huge problems and asked for help. And help came - at least in the fact that Galya always listened patiently to everyone and gave her compassion.” Today, the Gift of Life foundation is one of the most famous charitable foundations in the country, it is supported by celebrities, it is favored by the powers that be, but we must not forget that without the efforts and without the extraordinary soul of its founder, Galina Chalikova, this foundation simply might not have existed . We can say that she taught many of us to pay attention to the pain and suffering that is very close by, and to provide help.

The funeral service and farewell to Galina Chalikova will take place on September 20 at 12.00 in the Church of Cosmas and Damian (Stoleshnikov Lane 2). The funeral will take place at approximately 15.00 at the new cemetery in the village of Romashkovo, Odintsovo district, Moscow region. The funeral will take place at 18.00 in the new building of the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology (Zamora Machel 1).