Year of man

Andrey Biljo that charity - it could be fun

We help the prevention of complications during bone marrow transplantation collected 3,862,445 R required 3,750,000 r

The collection of funds is over

Charity should not be associated exclusively with pain and suffering. You can help you have fun, it is not necessary to do this with a tear. In England, for example, there is a “red nose”, when everyone puts on clown noses, and the money made from their sale goes to charity. Several tens of millions of pounds are collected, by the way.

I somehow suggested that we arrange such a day that all the traffic cops put on red noses. Can you imagine how fun it would be? All newspapers would write about it. And if Putin and Medvedev had put on the clown noses, can you imagine how much money could be collected for charity?! But so far these are only dreams.

I help primarily because I can’t refuse. Many of my friends are engaged in charity work, and for everyone I come up with something.

What I just did not do! He painted owls, painted cows, elephants, shops, painted individual bank cards. It seems to me that I am making a much greater contribution than just giving money. Once I painted a cow - I painted Pushkin on it, and she went to the auction in London. So on the cow, Alexander Sergeyevich fell abroad, where he had never been during his lifetime. That cow was sold for 650 pounds that went to the Life Line Foundation.

For a whole year I was a representative of a white bear in Moscow

Where only money from the sale of my cows and postcards did not go, to a variety of funds and associations, funds for saving dogs, cats, sick children. Somehow I managed to become a member of the Wildlife Protection Fund-for a year I was a representative of the White Bear in Moscow.

On New Year's Eve, we in Petrovich hold the action "Geese save children." We sold the Goose of Leni Parfenov, Evgenia Mironov, Stalik Khankishiev, Sergey Tsigal, mine and so on. Some geese are prepared right in Petrovich according to copyright recipes, some are brought by the authors themselves. I sell them at an auction, and they are usually eaten right there. In addition, we are selling raw geese, they are pulled by visitors and participants in this auction for Christmas. We collect in the region of 30-35 thousand dollars.

Now you can often hear that, they say, there is no need to say that you are doing good deeds, good should be nameless, otherwise pride is all. It seems to me that I need to say, there is nothing shameful in this. On the contrary, you are talking about this, you draw other people into this funnel of charity.

Postcard from Andrei Biljo Illustration: Andrey Biljo

But one person cannot help everyone. No matter how scary it sounds, you have to choose, because the amount of trouble and grief around is too large. We will never be able to help everyone. And then we delegate this task to funds.

And then for the first time in my life I wanted to give a woman a slap or hit her in the ass

There are many funds, and, unfortunately, there are many fraudulent funds that deceive people. How to deal with it is incomprehensible. I would like to create an association of funds that would control its members, share my experience, convey wards to each other. But our funds are too jealous of each other's work. Therefore, while the question of scammers remains open. Once in St. Petersburg there was such an action - artists painted and sold paintings. And so, when it ended, I packed my things and went to the exit, and my mother and daughter walked in front of me, and my daughter asked: “Mom, why didn’t we buy anything?” To which my mother answered her: “You don’t understand, it is they only say that the money will go to charity, to help sick children, but in fact they put everything in their pocket.” And then for the first time in my life I wanted to give a woman a slap or hit her in the ass. She was saved only by the fact that next to her was a little daughter.

But, on the other hand, I know that the funds that I support were created by my friends, honest people who are well versed in the problem. So, once Alexei Maschan called me, a professor and a large leukemic specialist. He is an absolutely disinterested person who gives his whole life to help others. He called, asked for help. For me, the words of Lesha are the law. Since he says that this is necessary and important, it means this is important and necessary. Therefore, I drew this postcard for the Lukemia Fund.

And the fund of the fight against leukemia collects funds for a device for photoferez. This is such a metal box that is irradiated by blood so that after the bone marrow transplantation, a person does not die from the reaction “transplant against the owner”, when donor and native cells, without recognizing the chance of salvation, reject each other.

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I remember that the same apparatus for the treatment of sick children Chulpan Khamatova raised money for almost one auction. But then sick children. For sick children, people willingly donate money. With adults, much more difficult.

Yes, we pay taxes, but they all go somewhere wrong. And people continue to die. After all, we will help them, right?

The wards of the Fund for the fight against leukemia need help every day. Therefore, sign up for a monthly donation in December, until the January lull in charity came, and live calmly the next year, because thanks to your donation, the project will have funds for constant work.