Olga Kudinenko, founder of Tabletochki, a foundation supporting a children’s cancer hospital in Ukraine

Olga Kudinenko, founder of Tabletochki, a foundation supporting a children’s cancer hospital in Ukraine, said that attitudes toward charities are modernizing in Ukraine. But, recalling backbiting comments by other women about her initiative, she said Ukrainian professional women need to learn to support each other more. She also said Ukrainian men can be emotional cripples, citing ‘awful’ statistics of men who abandon their families when a child falls ill.