{"id":6706,"date":"2016-04-22T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iasp.org.ua\/en\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:16:27","slug":"the-new-prosthesis-for-the-winner-of-follow-your-dream-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/child.ua\/en\/news-en\/the-new-prosthesis-for-the-winner-of-follow-your-dream-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The new prosthesis for the winner of “Follow Your Dream” Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oleksandr Kaluher<\/em><\/strong> is the winner of the Grand Prix of the IX International Charity Festival “Follow Your Dream”<\/em><\/strong> in 2015. This year he is going to leave the Tsiuriupinsk orphanage for children with special needs. Sashko has a birth defect: an amputated right leg. But it did not prevent him from becoming a winner at the “Follow Your Dream” Festival in 2015; his dance, prepared especially for the contest, won the festival. The performance can be watched online<\/a> at.<\/p>\n \u00a0“We received an invitation to participate in the festival, so I learned this dance with a girl from our orphanage. Our physics group leader helped us with the dance”<\/em>,\u2013 says Sashko.<\/p>\n \u00a0“Sashko sings songs, plays the piano;hehas been taking the guitar lessons at the musical school for 4 years, he is playing a little bit,”<\/em> \u2013 says Vadym, Sashko\u2019s teacher. Sashko interrupts Vadym loudly with his “NOT a little bit<\/em>\u201d, both are laughing.<\/p>\n \u00a0But the top prize for Oleksandr after having won the festival was an opportunity to get a new artificial limb, since the previous one is small. The new prostheticdevice has been made free and custom designed by the specialists of the \u201cOrtoteh Service\u201d in Kyiv, who were responsive on Sashko\u2019s need. Hespecially came to the capital to talk to his doctors and have all necessary measurements made. Sashko and his teacher were cordially received in Kyiv by the \u201cRus\u201d hotel and the “Premier Hotels and Resorts” network, our long-term partners, and we express our sincere thanks to them.<\/p>\n Oleksandr Zalensky, a prosthetic technician, and Oleksandr Stetsenko, director and chief physician of the \u201cOrtoteh Service\u201d, made for Sashkoa mechanical prosthetic device. The boy could not immediately be nimble on his feet, but in 15 minutes Sashkos talked along the corridor. “I am very grateful to havethe prosthesis, it was my dream. I still have to get used to it, but I am happy and grateful to Oleksandr Stetsenko and the “Follow Your Dream” Festival for the chance to move and dance!” \u2013 says Oleksandr Kaluher.<\/p>\n “This is not a final version of the prosthesis. We expect Sashkoto passhisschool exams and visit us again. Then we are going to replace some parts of the device: make the carbon basis and put on some “make – up”. The prosthesis will beabsolutely similar to the leg”<\/em>,\u2013 said Oleksandr Zalensky, a prosthetic technician.<\/p>\n \u00a0Sashko\u2019sfuture plans include entering the university and getting a degree of a social worker. “I want to be like Vadym, that is, a social worker [Sashko\u2019s teacher]. I will help people”<\/em>,\u2013Sashko shares his plans with us. Being self-confident, he is going to enter the university on a competitive basis.<\/p>\n We are tremendously pleased that the Association “Social Protection” with the GO “Follow Your Dream”<\/em><\/strong> have been able to help such a nice boy. We believe in his talents and abilities, and we are going to follow his future success. We express our deep respect to the Tsiuriupinsk orphanage educators for their unresting activities. We thank the “Rus”<\/strong><\/em> hotel, the \u00a0\u201cPremier Hotels and Resorts\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chain for Sashko\u2019s placement,\u00a0pidmoga.info\u00a0<\/u>for their assistance, as well as the \u201cOrtoteh Service\u201d<\/em><\/strong> for making his prosthesis.<\/p>\n Detailed information on the Tenth \u201cFollow Your Dream\u201d Festival<\/em><\/strong> at:\u00a0http:\/\/mriy.org\/en\/<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oleksandr Kaluher is the winner of the Grand Prix of the IX International Charity Festival “Follow Your Dream” in 2015. This year he is going to leave the Tsiuriupinsk orphanage for children with special needs. Sashko has a birth defect: an amputated right leg. But it did not prevent him from becoming a winner at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n