WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Paintings by oncology pediatric patients from different countries will decorate the future rocket carrier Amur and Serbia has become the first nation to participate in this international project, Russia’s Unity Foundation told Sputnik.
“The Unity Foundation in partnership with Russia’s state space agency Roscosmos is launching a new rocket art project and Serbia has become the first platform for its implementation,” the organization’s President Alena Kuzmenko said. “As part of the rocket art project, drawings of children with cancer from different countries will decorate the promising Amur rocket.”
Kuzmenko noted that Serbia is taking part in a Unity Foundation charity project for the second time. In April 2021, the Dreamer art spacesuit, depicting paintings from the dreams of children suffering from cancer in ten countries, went into space.
“Only in the wildest fantasies one can imagine a bright and joyful rocket decorated with childhood dreams. This is a real miracle that inspires children,” she said. “When we dream separately, it’s just a dream. Dreaming together, we create a new reality. Today’s launch of the rocket art project in Serbia is dedicated to the recovery of ill children all over the world.”
On June 22, the Unity Foundation space team arrived in Belgrade at the invitation of Serbian Post Office Director Zoran Djordjević. The team includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who returned from his first expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) in April, and Anastasia Stepanova, a tester at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of the crews of the international isolation experiments SIRIUS-19 and Mars 160.
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Stepanova told Sputnik that the most valuable element is to show children – by using the example of completely unusual professions and projects – the future may become what they want it to be.
Cosmonaut Kud-Sverchkov, who saw the Dreamer spacesuit aboard the ISS, told Sputnik that the Unity Foundation’s projects are comparable to that of the space station and are an excellent example of how citizens of different states can work together in a friendly and fruitful manner.
During the visit to Belgrade, the Unity Foundation team met with Djordjević as well as Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of Roscosmos’ promising programs and science told Sputnik that the participation of the space agency in international charitable art projects confirms its desire to be a socially oriented organization and to promote the well-being of children.
In addition to visiting Belgrade, the Unity Foundation team will travel around the world and collect the dreams of little artists fighting cancer prior to the rocket Amur flying to space.
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