Henri and Ralf are fighting for their lives: only a very expensive medicine can prevent the deadly progression of their muscle disease
The illness-story of 7-year-old Henri and 15-year-old Ralf began with frequent falls and unusual clumsiness, leading to a harsh diagnosis – Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This rare [...]
Please help Tessa, Loviise, Sander-Lucas, Lara, and Kateryna to grow
"Those of us who have never experienced a world where nothing measures up can't imagine the challenges it brings on a [...]
Help save the life of five-month-old Robin!
A baby boy urgently needs expensive medicine to combat a serious illness. The treatment will cost up to €26,000 over the next six months, and the family [...]
Loviise, living with achondroplasia, gains 5.5 centimeters in height from treatment
Three-year-old Loviise has a rare condition called achondroplasia, which stunts the growth of her arms and legs, causing severe pain and other serious health problems even in [...]
Are we letting Maria suffocate? Or Maarek? Or anyone?
Unfortunately, their stories are just the beginning. In Estonia, there is an entire classroom, nearly 30 children and youth, who have been deprived of modern treatment and are [...]
Help to find the ones in need!
Help to find the ones in need! Every child matters! In its main campaign for 2022 the Tartu University Hospital Children’s Foundation is calling people to notify [...]
Helping children affected by war in Ukraine
Helping children affected by war in Ukraine Tartu University Hospital Children’s Foundation is ready to help and support children from Ukraine who are in need of medical assistance. [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Rudolf, who is only 5 days old, needs life-saving heart surgery in Helsinki and in order for the little boy’s parents to be with his child the family is asking for the help of good people to cover travel and living expenses up to 3740 euros
The Estonian Health Insurance Fund pays for the child's ambulance and helicopter transport. Medical expenses of little Rudolf at Children's Hospital at Helsinki are also reimbursed by the health [...]
PRESS RELEASE: A very young lymphoma patient needs help to get treatment
Having received such a difficult diagnosis, 5-year-old Pavel is asking for kind people’s help to continue receiving treatment at Düsseldorf University Clinic in Germany. Since spring, little Pavel experienced [...]
PRESS RELEASE: A little girl needs help for a safe recovery at home!
Help needed! After a long hospital stay, a six months old girl needs important life-saving apparatus, devices and medical food to safely recover at home. The girl was born [...]
PRESS RELEASE: PLEASE HELP AGAIN! Tiny Beatrice, now 6 days old, also needs life-saving heart surgery in Helsinki!
PRESS RELEASE: PLEASE HELP AGAIN! Tiny Beatrice, now 6 days old, also needs life-saving heart surgery in Helsinki! The little girl's family is asking for help to pay for [...]
PRESS RELEASE: HELP NEEDED! 5 days old Brianna urgently needs to undergo a life-saving heart surgery at the Paediatric Hospital in Helsinki, Finland
Brianna was born with a heart defect, meaning that her large blood vessels - pulmonary artery and aorta - have swapped places. In order to save her, the life-saving [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Artjom is a 7 year old boy with brain cancer and he needs help from kind people so he can continue receiving radiation therapy in St. Petersburg
He was just 8 months old when he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour – anaplastic ependymoma. At that age he had his first operation and to date [...]
PRESS RELEASE: The long-awaited walking robot now also helps in the University of Tartu Clinic’s little legs to move
Many small and slightly bigger commitments have come together as an excellent opportunity to now provide state-of-the-art rehabilitation and South Estonian patients. Robot is now set up in the [...]
Children´s Foundation invites to make charitable presents and support severely ill children
Tartu University Hospital Children's Foundation invites people and companies to forget unnecessary Christmas presents and instead surprise their loved ones, employees and partners with a charitable Christmas card or [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Thanks to campaign „Üleannetus“, over 38 000 euros have been collected for children in need of special food mixtures
Tartu University Children Hospital’s Children’s Foundation’s campaign „Üleannetus“, along with charitable family days, held in 15 county centers, have brought in 37 951 euros to children in need of special [...]
PRESS RELEASE: A small girl, trapped in a wheelchair due to her illness and operations, needs the help of supporters to be able to walk again
The Tartu University Children’s Foundation has once again started a campaign, that has a goal to help a child with a mobility disabilty walk again, through consistent and intensive [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Medihub is calling on Estonian Start-Up companies to support children with mobility disabilites by accepting the „Let’s sit still“ challenge
Estonian Start-Up company Medihub is starting a social media challenge for the first time aimed at Start-Up companies, through which they try to collect donations to support children with [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Children’s Foundation is helping to pay for the Horse Riding therapy of a boy suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome
In April, the Children’s Foundation started supporting 10 year-old Siim, who is suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome and who needs horse riding therapy to cope with his disease. The Foundation [...]
The Children’s Foundation supports severely ill children all around Estonia
Despite it’s name, the Tartu University Hospital’s Children’s Foundation supports all the severely ill children in Estonia, that need help, regardless of their place of residence or medical facility. [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Sale of duck numbers for the Duck Race has begun
From today, the 27. of April, the sale of duck numbers is open on the Duck Race webpage, and everyone who wishes, has the chance of sponsoring a duck, [...]