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This fragile looking girl is being called real savior.
Masha Kurilenko is saving peoples lives.
She does it with pleasure, but with loss of blood.
Masha is a donor, her blood prolongs
lives of children fo who leukaemia is a sentence.
- Have you been taking medicine during last month?
- No.
Before blood donation - usual questions and procedures.
First time Masha became donor at request.
Friends asked to give blood for a boy, who fell to a pit with boiling water.
Masha couldn't refuse this call for help.
After first time she had beacome a frequent visitor
of city central hemotransfusion station.
She is being loved here, doctors say she is not a problem donor -
never faints after blood donation.
- Excellent! Amaizing!
- If it was allowed I would play football.
Masha could play football with her like-minded friends - another donors.
There is a community - "Club 25".
Young people - members of it want to became "Donor of honour".
For that they need in their young age make at least 20 blood donations.
At the station those donors are the most valuable.
But even more inneed of them are desiased children.
- One bag of blood that Masha gave today can save three human lives.
Thats why, Masha says, I became a donor
And now blood donation for her is not only necessity, but a need.
- If i had a possibility, and doctors allow me to give blood every month,
I would give blood every month. Because there is not enough donors...
Catastrophically
Masha not only gives blood for those who need it, but the money too
For every visit to the station she is paid 500 rubles (~27 usd)
She donates it to the Red Cross.
That is called "Gratuitous donorship"
Masha chooses it and appeals others.
And medics appeal, for the beginning, to come and give your blood
Hemotransfusion station, they say, is a place there everyone can save
other human's life.
Maria Stepaniants, Yurij Yukhnin from Admiraltejskij district of Saint-Petersburg.
Translation - Grigory Frantsuzov