An Appeal to the SEE Online Community: Help a Young Cancer Patient!

Nevena Ristic is a teenager from Kragujevac, Serbia. In fact, today is her birthday. Nevena celebrated her 15th birthday today at San Matteo Hospital in Pavia, Italy. Nevena has leukemia type AML M4. She first spent a year in Belgrade’s University Childrens’ Hospital and the leukemia went into remissiion after a long set of chemotherapy. The leukemia is back. No suitable donors were found in Serbia, so Nevena was recently transfered to Pavia where they have just found a suitable bone marrow donor from Chicago, U.S.A. and she is now awaiting the transplant.

Nevena and her family are fighting the long fight with this disease that takes it’s toll on so many adults and children each year. This battle of awesome proportions to regain her health, something that should be the God given right of every child, has caused quite a financial strain on her family’s finances. They have sent out an appeal for donations on a Facebook fanpage made for Nevena and Serbia Today joins them in that appeal now.

Nevena’s father, Miodrag Ristic, has opened a bank account for the purpose of donations with Banca Intesa in Serbia. We have contacted Nevena and her family for more information on payments from other countries and are awaiting their response. In the meantime, please do what you can to contact your bank, other payment or Banca Intesa directly to see how you can make a donation to the existing account from your location.

Help Nevena fight the good fight. Our thoughts and prayers are with her.