History
One sponsored 100 mile cycle ride, thousands of pot-holes and many a bruised behind later... The seed for what is now the charity One Life, helping children with life-shortening and life-threatening illnesses such as cancer in Bulgaria, was sewn!
After returning from the cycle ride to Plovdiv, a group of friends (Russel Howe, James Flint, Laura Thomas, Gilbert McCaul, Paul Kornreich, Susan Barnard, Slavi Christov, Nadezhda Zafirova and Yana Kovacheva) now the Committee of One Life Charity, as privileged ex-pats and Bulgarians alike, felt that we had to seize the initiative and the chance to give national and international exposure to the plight of sick children here in Bulgaria, who all too often die without getting the treatment commonly available in other countries, and in the process improving the battered image of the home-grown NGO sector here in Bulgaria, known as "Foundations", often used in the past to scam donors. We have started this by creating a transparent, professionally audited and fully accountable registered charity.
Aims
One Life Charity aims to provide medicines and treatment unavailable or out of reach financially here in Bulgaria to those children with the most acute need, by part funding the purchase of medicines, part sponsoring treatment abroad, providing the psychological support to the carers, all too often long suffering Bulgarian mothers, and saving for our long term vision of building and funding a modern hospice, right here in Bulgaria, to give these children and their families the best care, comfort and support possible, during what are the most difficult times and the saddest circumstances that any family can imagine.