The Solidarity Fund created with the initiative of Prime Minister will discuss the first applications on September 5, reports GHN.
On the first meeting of committee there will be discussed applications received from August 25 till September 3. After this the committee will make decision to finance children under 18 with solid cancer disease.
More than 23000 public servant and hundreds of citizens already joined the Solidarity Fund of Georgia. With the data of August 31 there is already mobilized 124 458 lari (30 023 lari in July, 94 453 lari in August).
Executive director of the Solidarity Fund Mariam Jashi thanks every citizen and explains that any kind of donation, regardless of amount is very important.
"With the sum that is mobilized as a result of every month donation we have possibility to fully cover the financial needs of diagnostic and treatment of children under 18 who are ill with solid cancer disease. This support assures us that with joint effort it is possible to mobilize vital support for the children who are ill with cancer and other tough diseases," stated Mariam Jashi.
The fund will provide with the information regularly about mobilized funds, criteria of financing and about beneficiaries who will receive funding of the Solidarity Fund with the joint support of public and private sector and society.