Dear friends,    All the children whom we are trying to save are gravely ill. Therefore, sometimes our efforts fail. No matter how hard the doctors, sponsors, and donors may try, the disease sometimes overcomes. We want to be honest with the people who help our children, and so we do not conceal the sad facts from you. Each death of a gravely ill child sometimes makes one doubt if such financial and emotional expenses are indeed justified. This is a real problem, and our only possible reply is that some things just ought to be done. A person between life and death should not feel abandoned. And many parents have told us that they felt better and stronger due to the knowledge that everything possible and necessary would be done for their child. Therefore, we will continue this work, and we hope that you will support us.     When it is impossible to save a child, the last thing that we can do is to help with the funeral. It is difficult to speak about this, but, since we directly participate in the organization of the children's funerals, probably it would be appropriate to mention their cost here. For the parents, who are totally exhausted after many months at the hospital in a strange city (where only few of them have any relatives), the funeral is an especially heavy burden. We try to be together with them in their grief, to help with all the documents, and to provide financial help. The actual sum, usually from $300 to $800, depends on how far from Moscow the child's family lives.   Dima Zaitsev Jebrael Muzhakhoev Misha Koverzyuk Alesha Strogov Tanya Sholokhova Edgar Martirosyan Serezha Parshutin     Olesya Andreeva Apti Bokaev Katya Savelyeva Sasha Chernukhin Vanya Shcherbenev Vitalik Kovalnitski Olya Kudashkina     Arif Makhmudov Katya Uvarova Sasha Shevchenko Katya Artamonova Anya Gusakova Katya Kiseleva Maksim Mikhailov     Danila Kushniruk Yaroslav Grabovski Nastya Burtseva Anton Ageev Dima Krainyuchenko Sasha Sirotinin Igor Barkov     Nastya Kurbanova Serezha Aksentov Vika Filippova Olya Putilina Igor Moskalenko Oleg Mazilov Misha Zelenkov     Nikita Chalenko Nikita Kirichenko Valera Khailov Vadim Nikitin Andrei Karnaukhov Katya Putyaikina Kolya Altynov     Nastya Zhiltsova Dima Kuzmin Oksana Timoshenko Rafil Khafizov Magomed Kh. Leva Pyryaev Ilya Rusakov     Ilya Averin Zhenya Efremova Katya Sorokina Alesha Nevstruev Kolya Dvoryaninov Serezha Papkov Said-Emin Usmanov     Marifat Khamdamova Denis Karkhalava Sasha Melnikov Masha Gudimova Mantas Lavrenovas Kirill Vinter Sasha Emelkin     Eugene Chernyshov Mirza Magomedov Vika Sotneva Nadya Popova Kolya Semenov Eugene Yakovlev Artem Romanov     Priyana Lubchinskaya Anya Klyakovkina Vanya Makhnev Vanya Kal'noi Dima Rogachev Artem Chumakov Dima Sergienko     Nastya Kuzmina Vladlena Vigul Vika Kurenkova Georgi Vinnikov Daniil Kolesnik Stanislav Andryukov Valeria Zubritskaya     Alexei Pastushchin Sveta Smirnova Nastya Zhigalik Kirill Fedechkin Ira Psakina Maxim Zolotov Usman Metrishev     Anton Drobov Vanya Panikhin Tanya Egorova Ivan Kuzmin Vika Slobodyan Anton Safonov Vanya Prokofyev     Zhenya Bakanova Ira Bass Maxim Badin Vadim Gritchin Sergei Kargashentsev Nikita Semenov Varya Bondarenko