We send letters to companies and banks to formally request help. We also have friends who work in commercial organizations and we frequently ask them to help us. A few times our Charity Fund received donations from the International Moscow Bank. Our permanent sponsors are the MXM Company and Aeroflot, the domestic airline, which is helping us ship donations free of charge. We also have received some donations from private individuals, both inside and outside Russia.
Banks prefer to transfer money for factor directly to the pharmaceutical company that sells it.
And companies prefer to donate computers or medical equipment. As I said, this is the result of lack of legislation governing charitable contributions. So most of the expenses are held by our family. It is very hard, but we are trying to change the situation. Our relationship with the doctors is extremely cooperative.