Children with Oncohaematological
Diseases
A parents’ association · since 2010

No child fights the illness alone.

We are the parents who have walked this road. That is why we stand by every child with an oncohaematological disease in Bulgaria, and by their family — from the first day in the clinic to life after the illness. Free of charge.

Member of Childhood Cancer International Licensed social services provider
A girl carries a younger boy on her back along a country path in summer
A smiling boy in a hood makes victory signs with both hands
Summer camp, Dobarsko
The road we walk together

From the first day in the clinic to life after the illness.

Treatment lasts from 6 months to 3 years, sometimes a lifetime. At every step, the child and the family have someone beside them who has been there.

  1. A little girl in hospital looks at the door with the association’s emblem
    The first days

    The diagnosis

    The illness comes suddenly. We answer the questions every family with a newly diagnosed child faces — about treatment, rights and the road ahead. As parents who have been in the same place.

  2. Two small children without hair, after chemotherapy, painting with a brush
    Months in hospital

    The treatment

    At the Golden Ribbon centre, right next to the clinic, children play, paint and meet friends who understand, while parents find a psychologist and a shoulder. A teacher comes to the bedside so no child falls behind.

  3. Children laughing and making victory signs in the pool
    Together again

    The recovery

    At the St. Stylianos Rehabilitation Centre the whole family receives free psychological and physical rehabilitation. Every summer our camps bring together children in treatment, survivors and their brothers and sisters.

  4. A girl holds the Bulgarian flag on the podium at the Winners’ Games
    After the story of the illness

    The story of victories

    Children who have beaten cancer compete at the Balkan Sports Games we organise in Panagyurishte — in 2026, more than 70 children from five countries. We help them build self-belief and find paths for personal and professional growth.

150–200children in Bulgaria are diagnosed with cancer every year
up to85%of childhood oncohaematological diseases are now treated successfully
100+families have received free rehabilitation at St. Stylianos
2010the year parents founded the association
A smiling girl sitting in a meadow of wildflowers

My child was here too. And now they are healthy — studying, dancing, dreaming. A long road lies ahead of you, but it will all pass.

What a parent who has been there tells a family that is just beginning
The St. Stylianos Rehabilitation Centre at sunset — family houses, an indoor pool and fields
St. Stylianos Rehabilitation Centre

The dream we built together.

The first rehabilitation centre for children with oncohaematological diseases in Bulgaria and the Balkans. Opened on 14 September 2020 in the village of Opitsvet, Kostinbrod municipality.

  • 7family-type houses
  • 13decares of land in Opitsvet
  • 100+families rehabilitated
  • €0cost of the stay for families
About the association
A frame from the music video “Shtom si s men” Watch the video on YouTube
A song for our children

“Shtom si s men” („Щом си с мен“ — “As long as you are with me”)

Created in 2014 on the association’s initiative and dedicated to the children and to the people who help them through the hardest trial — the fight for life. The video features children fighting the illness and children who have already beaten it.

Dicho · Poli Genova · Viki Terziyska · Vesi Boneva · Vasko Chergov · Inela Chergova

Watch on YouTube

Every 15 February the world turns gold.

International Childhood Cancer Day — for the children fighting now, for those who have won, and in honour of the families who lost a child. We have marked it every year since 2011.

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