Please Help Six Year Old Onega

Six-year-old Onega Polina from Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk region, could hardly hear since the day she was born. Doctors have found a cholesteatoma tumor in the middle ear of her right ear canal, which is constantly growing and destroying tissue connections and any hope for her recuperation. The US clinic is prepared to remove the tumor and restore her hearing because such surgeries are not yet available in Russia. But they cost a lot of money. The girl’s parents cannot afford the costs. The girl was named Onega because her father really liked the sound of the city Onega in Arkhangelsk region.  “When I saw my daughter for the first time, I saw that she barely had any ears,” says Olga, Onega’s mother. “There was only a poorly developed earlobe, and a small skin spindle. But I was so happy that I immediately thought it was just a cosmetic defect. It was nothing we couldn’t handle. Little did I know about the challenges we would have to endure.” The audio screening results that are performe