Idea

We are holding a hand to lead the way of small, and at the same time – Big , people, the ones’ whose careless childhood has been stopped by the most severe illness.

We are carrying on our arms those whose small feet are too weak to make a step into Tomorrow.

We are tightly embrassing the families that had to undergo the most painful suffering- their
child’s illness, pain, suspense.

It was November 29, 2004 when the family of Edita and Dainoras Abrukauskai, after having lost their 3-year-old daughter to cancer, established the Childhood Cancer Fund Rugutė. Confrontation with the illness and with the existing situation in nursing and care, experience gathered during Rugilė's way threw cancer and the sincere wish to share the information gathered with those who are in great need of it, urged the Fund establishers to extend a hand of help to the families who had to face the most severe and hurting enemy – their child’s oncological disease.

 

The objectives of the Childhood Cancer Fund Rugutė is to extend aid and charity to children who are or have been ill with cancer, to help their families, as well as to support the development of the science and practice of oncology. The Fund collects legal, social and medical information which is necessary for the families who have children with cancer, initiates communication among the families and experience sharing, the Fund also supports projects and actions of early diagnostics and is trying to help to improve technical and material facilities of Vilnius’ University Children Clinic and Children’s Oncohaematology Unit at Kaunas’ Medical University Hospital.

 

The Fund organizes different projects in order to ensure a versatile help for the families hit with child’s oncological disease. The Fund cooperates with other Lithuanian, as well as foreign, organizations and funds.

 

Infinite love and 100 percent responsibility is the motto of Rugutė Fund, which has been leading the Fund’s daily activity since the day of its establishment. The children, with the children and for the children…

 

The volunteers of Rugutė, as they see the eyes of the struggling children who are so eager to see the Future, know that they have no right to get tired, to give up or not to believe.

 

The smiles of the children, their most sincere hugs, their boundless strength, people’s trust in Rugutė's activities, their everyday kindness and generosity create the foundation of Rugutė’s strength to go forward finding ways to realize the Fund’s goals and objectives.