Nora Šitum: Coming to America
A five year-old Croatian girl, Nora Šitum, is suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and needs immediate treatment. Although the economic situation in Croatia is in crisis – the country’s debt was just lowered to junk status last week – within just a few days, the family had raised the $590,000 for Nora’s treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is front-page news in Croatia, and the story is proving to be something of a PR headache for a Philadelphia hospital and the American Embassy in Zagreb. Her story made the front page of social media site Reddit Wednesday morning (but was later removed due to an editorialized title). After all that money had been raised so quickly, Croatian media reported yesterday that the Hospital had informed Nora’s family that the charge would actually be just over $834,000. The Šitum family has been in close touch with the US Embassy’s consular staff, and visas for Nora and her family were expected to be issued Wednesday afternoon.
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EXCLUSIVE: Croatian Child With Leukemia To Receive Experimental Treatment At CHOP
CBS Philly (con't) Affordable Care Act Updates: CBSPhilly.com/ACA Health News & Information: CBSPhilly.com/Health Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up By Todd Quinones PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – An experimental treatment CHOP might just be able to save a 5 year old’s life. People in Croatia are rallying behind her and trying to help her family raise the more than $800,000 needed to pay for it. Just days ago, her parents thought they were out of options. Five-year-old Nora Situm arrived Thursday evening at Philadelphia International Airport wearing a protective mask. She’s receiving medical treatment, and two of her doctors made the trip with her and her parents from Croatia. “This is the only chance that she has. The little girl is battling leukemia, but she’s about to undergo a new gene therapy treatment at CHOP that’s only been used on 13 other patients. Nora’s journey here started in part on Facebook in Croatia.
Croatians raise money for young girl's treatment in U.S.
Nora Situm, 5, has leukemia and will receive treatment at Philadelphia hospitalFellow Croats raised more than $800,000 after media appeal from her motherCroatia is still reeling from financial decline in 2008 (CNN) -- A 5-year-old Croatian girl with leukemia will be receiving treatment in America, thanks to her home country's generosity. When Nora Situm's mother contacted Croatian media to help raise the $575,000 needed for her daughter's treatment, they made sure that goal was met. "It was very expensive, but Croatian people have great hearts," said Djurdja Aleksic, a family friend and a member of Hrabro dijete (brave child), an organization that helps sick children. Nora is known in her home country as brave heart, according to Aleksic. Within weeks of her mother's request, people from all over Croatia donated to Nora's cause, according to Aleksic. Nora was due to arrive late Thursday or early Friday for treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
4 Recent News Stories That'll Restore Your Faith In Humanity
If you give the news a casual glance, the big picture tends to be fairly goddamn dreadful. After all, news outlets rely on readers coming back day after day to see which one of the planet's 7 billion people decided to go insane the day before. But amid the horde of world-ending dipshits hogging the headlines, there are those kindly folks out there who don't cause us to pray for Ragnarok on a daily basis. #4. This past July, burglars broke into the offices of California's San Bernardino County Sexual Assault Services and stole thousands of dollars' worth of computers and office supplies (and probably several pamphlets about avoiding men exactly like themselves). Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Getty Images"Just because we take what we want from someone, without their consent, doesn't mean you can compar- oh, right." KABC-TVThe first draft was written in crayon. ... along with every item that had been stolen. #3. Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images"It's only jail; quit being a little bitch."
Malawi sells jet to avert food crisis
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How Malala, Teen Activist Shot By Taliban, Made Jon Stewart's Jaw Drop
Jon Stewart isn’t easily impressed. But on Tuesday, a 16-year-old left this sardonic late-show host speechless. A year after she was shot by the Taliban for speaking out about girls’ education rights, Malala Yousafzai sat down with Stewart to talk about her views on education and terrorism and how she plans to continue her fight to open up classrooms for girls all over the globe. Stewart was quick to praise Yousafzai’s new book and express how privileged he felt to meet her. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee said that when she learned she was a target while living in Pakistan, she often thought about how she would react if she found herself face-to-face with a terrorist. “If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib,” she said. Once she decided she could not respond with violence, Yousafzai thought about what she would say to a terrorist. “I would tell him how important education is and that I would even want education for your children as well.
10 Extraordinary Examples Of Forgiveness
Humans According to the old saying, when it comes to forgiveness, we should all forgive and forget. Many can attest to the fact that this is usually easier said than done. While smaller grievances may be easily forgiven, serious transgressions are another story entirely. Many people struggle to forgive a serious wrong done to them and many times feel that the perpetrator does not deserve forgiveness. Those are natural human emotions, but some people just don’t bother with them. 10 Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway is better known as the infamous Green River Killer. At Ridgway’s 2003 sentencing, the families of the victims had the opportunity to speak out and address Ridgway directly. Rule’s words to Ridgway were: “Mr. 9 Patricia Machin In 2011, Patricia Machin lost her husband when he set out to buy the morning paper. The driver, Brian Williamson, was extremely distressed over having hit Gerrard Machin. 8 Charles C. On October 2, 2006, Charles C. 7 Rachelle Friedman Chapman
