Grant from Afya
234,500 units of medical equipment with a listed value of $199,000 were delivered to our partner hospital in...
Birds for Sofia News
We support children diagnosed with rare, inheritable diseases from different parts of the world. We help families to get access to life-saving treatments. We fast-forward the fundraising process before it is too late.
Phosphate Diabetes
Ksieniia returned from Hadassah Medical Center in Israel, where she underwent a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation...
Spinal surgery for Sasha
Sasha Samus underwent an intricate 16-hour spinal reconstruction at the Spinex Center. His Grade 4 scoliosis was...
Enteral Nutrition for Lviv
Through an ongoing partnership with Revived by Unity Foundation, our long-standing hospital partner in Lviv receives...
Antibiotics for the Rare
Our partners at the Revived by Unity Foundation provided 545 doses of antibiotics to our rare disease patients…
Ventilator for Vasyl
Our rehabilitation workshop helped set a ventilator for a kid with Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy…
Cough Assist for a SMA kid
7-year-old Khrystyna with SMA received Philips Respironics Cough Assist thanks to
our dedicated partners at Börgel
Help from Unity Ukraine
As part of our ongoing Nutrition Campaign, our partner Unity Ukraine delivered bath chairs and diapers for rare...
Stroller for Artem
BfS covered the purchase of a new special-needs stroller for 7-year-old Artem with SMA Type 1…
Respiratory Aid
3 tonnes of humanitarian aid that traveled 1,229 km to reach rare children with severe respiratory challenges
Svyatoslav with SLC6A8
Birds for Sofia covered comprehensive physical therapy and sensory integration sessions for Svyatoslav with SLC6A8
Device Kits for the Rare
Touch-free thermometers and pulse oximeters were delivered to our rare patient by our partners in Ukraine…
Giving Tuesday
BFS is taking part in the major charity event of the year, and we hope you are ready to share the holiday season with...
Phosphate Diabetes
Ksieniia Karimova’s journey continues thanks to your kind support! Ksieniia visited Hadassah Medical Center in...
Public Health 2025
We’re happy to share a glimpse from our stand at Booth 1A-A21 of the 34th International Medical Exhibition in Kyiv —...
Bohdana Kivliuk
Together with our partners Warmed Heart / We Care Foundation, we were able to provide Bohdana with a vital EKG and...
Scoliosis Surgery
Thanks to our SMA Program, Anastasia underwent a highly complex, 16-hour spinal implantation surgery at our partner...
Blankets for SMA kids
Two of our little SMA warriors, Alina and Vlad, received beautiful, hand-crafted blankets donated by the kind-hearted...
Daryna Samoilenko
Recently, the Samoilenko family moved to Los Angeles, starting a new chapter filled with both opportunities and...
Börgel GmbH
Börgel GmbH donated respiratory equipment worth $90,000 to the Clinical Center of Children’s Healthcare in Lviv,...
Eric Morozov
Little Eric Morozov with SMA received an in-kind Respironics cough assist from Börgel GmbH…
Varvara’s Ravicti® supply
Throughout 2024, BfS covered Varvara Mayer’s Ravicti® supply until January 2025 by covering $23,769 out of...
SMA Program 2024
Our SMA program has fulfilled its 2024 promises: all three patients have received their lung ventilators!
Work trip to Ukraine
BfS team returned from a work trip to Ukraine to bring in new partnership options and project expansions…
ReBuild Ukraine
The Birds for Sofia team is honored to participate in the ReBuild Ukraine Conference in Warsaw, Poland…
BFS x Blaho
Thanks to Blaho Daruyu Foundation, 26 families from our list received 518 units of vital nutrition…
Ksieniia Karimova
We are thrilled to announce that Ksieniia Karimova’s 2024 fundraising goal has been achieved!
Annual Golf Tournament
We’re excited to share the highlights from our first Annual Charity Golf Tournament called to unite Utah public...
Amelia Mishchenko
Meet Amelia Mishchenko and her family, this year participants of our USA Resettlement Program…
Mark Bondarenko
Our USA Resettlement Program has recently welcomed a new family with a child affected by SMA in San Diego…
Rare family
Some of our cases are particularly rare – like families having both kids battling different rare diseases at a...
200 units of nutrition
The Revived by Unity Foundation has once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment…
Milana receives a supply
Milana Liaskivs’ka has received a 6-month supply of vital medications, securing her access to the treatments…
Unique Tymofii
Meet Tymofii, a unique 3-year-old boy and the ONLY child in Ukraine diagnosed with a mutation in the WARS2...
Association Paris-Ukraine
Association Paris-Ukraine Ile de France and its President Solomiia Begun helped to raise funds for Sasha Samus…
Annual SMA Conference
BfS team attended the 2024 Annual SMA Conference in Austin, Texas organized by CureSMA to join 2,260…
ABBOTT Nutrition
Anastasia Mordovets joined our EN Initiative and provided 270 units of PaediaSure Plus Fibre to 10 families...
Anna’s surgery
BfS continues supporting Anna Vovkodav with Rett Syndrome. This time we covered another surgery and a course...
Montana Charity Weekend
Our first Charity Weekend is the one to remember! BfS teamed up with Cache Capital Partners in a mission to gather...
Blaho Daruyu Foundation
Our kids continue receiving aid from the Blaho Daruyu Foundation! The packages include Humana lactose-free formula...
Ksieniia’s new victory
Young athlete with phosphate diabetes won 4 gold and 1 silver medals during the Paraswimming Championship of...
Revived by Unity
Our partners Revived by Unity Foundation provided different types of special nutrition to 180 kids…
Zolgensma for Daryna
Our USA Resettlement Program is celebrating one more victory! Daryna with SMA Type 1 received Zolgensma…
Major supply from Börgel
BfS has received an in-kind donation from our dearest partner Börgel GmbH equaling to 18,000€…
Donation by Sydney Skye
BfS received an amazing bird painting from Sydney Skye as an in-kind donation. “Looking out for the kids”, 2024, will...
Ksieniia Karimova: update
Ksieniia Karimova was finally able to get to the long-awaited annual examination at the Hadassah Clinic.
Max Kyryk
This incredible moment has finally arrived: Max Kyryk’s Zolgensma collection is closed!
Enteral Nutrition Initiative
The situation with enteral nutrition in Ukraine is turning critical, and we can’t stand aside…
The Sundt Foundation
The Sundt Foundation has approved the $8,000 grant request for our USA Resettlement Program
ZIONS BANK partnership
We are thrilled to announce our new partnership and welcome Zions Bank as our new community partner
Holiday Campaign 2024
Thank you everyone for participating in Giving Tuesday this year! Together we raised $1,056 in one day to help change...
Viktoriia Pekhnyk
We cannot think of a better way to celebrate a birthday than to receive Zolgensma gene therapy treatment…
Down Syndrome Month
In an incredible stride towards inclusivity and support of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, we’re proud to...
Meeting Baroness
Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterborne of the House of Lords within the UK Parliament met with the leadership of...
Ramir Kovalevsky
Ramir Kovalevsky with SMA Type 2 from Kazakhstan has received a LUISA noninvasive ventilator at a total cost of...
Yukhym Vykhopen
Yukhym Vykhopen with tuberous sclerosis received the so much needed rehabilitation at the Olinek Center in Poland.
Maksym Kadubets
One more victory for our USA Resettlement Program: on June 28, Maksym Kadubets received his Zolgensma.
Auction with “For Others”
During the star-studded annual event in Franklin, a popular American country singer purchased an auction package...
Yeva Sharko
Yeva Sharko has received Zolgensma at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a U4U parolee and our USA...
Ksieniia Karimova
Ksieniia Karimova’s fundraiser is closed! BfS has collected and transferred $13,920 to cover Ksieniia’s...
Tymofii Varenytsya
The second child in a healthy family, Tymofii was developing normally in the first days, however, he sadly faced the...
KUTV CBS 2 Interview
The members of the BFS Board of Directors Nataliya Miller and Matt Lambert have been interviewed by KUTV CBS 2...
Dmytro Hrom
BFS congratulates Dima, his family and the team of volunteers! We are endlessly happy you’ve been given this amazing...
Sofiia Mykytiuk
Sofiia Mykytiuk is 9 months old, she has SMA Type 1. The family decided to immigrate to the US 5 months ago as...
Oleksandr Smitiukh
BFS has raised $9,950 for Oleksand’s annual hormonal therapy with Genotropin.
Sasha needs to take the synthetic...
Emma Cherevashenko
Emma from Bucha, Ukraine is 4 months old and she suffers from SMA Type 2. Emma has received treatment with gene...
Miia Nevidoma
Miia from Vinnytsia, Ukraine has SMA type 2. Miia received Zolgensma, gene therapy at Children’s Hospital of...
Katya Zasukha
What a lucky chance. Katya Zasukha participated in Novartis’s lottery and won a dose of life-saving Zolgensma...
Solomiia Chorniuk
On the last day of August 2022 Solomiia Chorniuk, a one-year-old baby from Ukraine received Zolgensma in the USA....
Anri Surmanidze
Anri’s collection was the first Zolgensma campaign for our foundation in a status of a 501c3 organization. As hard as...
Nazar Kurchak
Nazar Kurchak is a participant of our USA Resettlement Program, the Kurchaks are confirmed “Uniting for...
Anna Vovkodav
We’re excited to announce that Anna’s fundraiser is closed @anna_rett_syndrome!
Her spinal surgery involving...
Artem and Vlad Pukalo
Artem and Vlad Pukalo from Ukraine – participants of the USA Resettlement program. Both boys have SMA type 2...
Sergey Privalov
We are happy to announce that Sergey Privalov’s fundraiser is closed!
Just like the Privalov family, we still...
Sergey Privalov
Sergey has an ultra rare NEMO syndrome. To survive, he needs a bone marrow transplant from a matching donor. BFS...
Save Ukrainian Children
Our fruitful partnership with the Palm of Hope Foundation @palmofhope continues reaching more Ukrainian families with...
Birds for Sofia Foundation
Today, we would like to share exciting news about the annual auction organized by our partner, the “For...
Nika Alexanyan
Nika Alexanyan is from Armavir in Russia. Nika was born on September 24, 2018, and has SMA type 1. Since three months...
Sofia Darbinyan
Meet little Sofia after Zolgensma and see her new accomplishments!
We cannot find enough words to share our gratitude...
Tasya Larionova
Songs for Tasya campaign
We want to thank all musicians who performed music for the “Songs for Tasya”...