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Good Morning Children' int'l foundation established in Baku

Politics Materials 3 April 2006 17:20 (UTC +04:00)

Opening of Good Morning Children! international foundation in Baku has been announced on Monday, Trend reports. The initiator of establishment of Good Morning Children! foundation is Austrian-Azerbaijani New Baku and Vena society, Neda Berger, the President of the society, said at a news conference.

It will come as the first international foundation of similar type and Baku will be the place of its establishment, she stressed. Berger introduced world-known Austrian professor Jorge Birkmaiker, the President of the Foundation, to journalists. He is also invented special medicine ENADA for people suffering from Down and Parkinson. A consignment of the medicine, delivered to Azerbaijan at the initiative of professor and New Baku and Vena, will be handed over to 70 Down-diseased children, who will take it under doctor control. The medicine is high-quality and patented in many European countries and the USA. Berger noted that it was not experiment over Azerbaijani children; ENADA was taken by politicians, sportsmen, actors to recover cells all over the world.

According to Berger, the aim of the Foundation is to assist the Azerbaijani

children suffering from different diseases. The activities of the new Foundation will cover children from Kazakhstan, Georgia and other countries. The opening ceremony of the Foundation will be held in Baku on 4 April. Besides, a charitable concert will be organization on the 15th anniversary of setting of the bilateral diplomatic relations in the Philarmonia. The concert will be held with the participation of well-known Austrian conductor and the Goychay chamber orchestra. Berger mentioned services of Ali Abbasov, the Azerbaijani Communications and Information Technologies Minister, and Etibar Babayev, the President of Space TV Company, as well as some art worker in the development of the Azerbaijani-Austrian relations.

According to Berger, the Azerbaijani-Austrian Society was established in 2000. The first direction of its activities is to assist Azerbaijani children. It manages orphanage and theatre for Down-diseased children in Baku (the single one in Europe), as well as collect money for surgery of blind children or weak-sighted children. The Society first organized action Tears of Karabakh Children in Vena in 2001 to attract attention of world community to Nagorno-Karabakh and its problems.

The second direction is to establish Culture Bridge between Azerbaijan and Austria. The Society is the organizer of the first culture days of Azerbaijan in Austria in 2002.

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