Basic principles: impartiality, independence from politics, tolerance and caring

Charitable Organization 'Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya' (CO 'MACZ' or CO 'CAMZ'; now Charitable Organization 'Charity Fund 'Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya', CO 'CF 'MACZ' or CO 'CF 'CAMZ') was officially registered on 21 March, 2000. The charity originated through the work of French specialists, who arrived to Transcarpathia in 1996 to support the Vilshany Children Orphanage. Over the course of the next few years, the expert rehabilitation therapists, social and medical staff worked with the children and created programmes for their individual development. All this work was carried out with their Ukrainian colleagues; also specialists in their respective fields. As a result, when the French finished their work in Transcarpathia in 2000, our specialists, namely Nataliya Kabatsiy and other colleagues continued the project; and so the Charitable Organization 'Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya' was established. So far, 21 March is celebrated as our birth day.