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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.

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…
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Mark Bondarenko

Our USA Resettlement Program has recently welcomed a new family with a child affected by SMA in San Diego…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Yukhym Vykhopen

Yukhym Vykhopen with tuberous sclerosis received the so much needed rehabilitation at the Olinek Center in Poland.
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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...
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Yeva Sharko

Yeva Sharko has received Zolgensma at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a U4U parolee and our USA...
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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”...