St. Jude Inspire Audio Stories

Each cancer journey is different. For Jennings, it’s meant years of treatment, hundreds of highway miles between his home state and St. Jude in Tennessee, and two bone marrow transplants. St. Jude Inspire writer Karina Bland tells the story of Jennings through the eyes of his dad Joel.

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Read a transcript of this episode:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/podcasts/audio-stories/the-long-road-home.html

Read the story about Jennings and his family:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/home-from-st-jude/long-journey-ends-with-long-ride-home-from-st-jude.html

Donate to St. Jude:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire

Credits: Hosted by Geoffrey Redick. Reported by Karina Bland. Edited by Grace Korzekwa Evans. Louis Graham is the Executive Producer of St. Jude Inspire.

Special Report: Ukraine

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Natalia Vilcu could hear the airstrikes. She lives in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Through the air, the city is less than a hundred miles from Odessa in Ukraine, one of the first places Russian forces hit.
Natalia is the president of a foundation called Life Without Leukemia. It’s part of an effort called SAFER Ukraine. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, have played a coordinating role in that effort, helping to establish an umbrella of support throughout Europe and even into North America.
St. Jude Inspire podcast host Geoffrey Redick talks with writer Kristina Goetz about Natalia’s experiences helping pediatric cancer patients leave Ukraine to continue treatment.

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Read Kristina’s story about Life Without Leukemia helping Ukrainian pediatric cancer patients:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/around-the-world/partner-foundation-moldova-evacuate-ukrainian-kids-cancer.html

Learn more about the SAFER Ukraine initiative and donate:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/around-the-world/special-report-ukraine.html

Read Kristina’s story about Natalia’s efforts to save her son:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/around-the-world/how-far-one-mother-would-go.html

Listen to the audio version of that story:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/podcasts/audio-stories/st-jude-audio-stories-how-far-one-mother-would-go.html

Credits: Hosted by Geoffrey Redick, with reporting by Kristina Goetz. Edited by Grace Korzekwa Evans. Louis Graham is the Executive Producer of St. Jude Inspire.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the people who run the Tabletochki Charitable Foundation got to safety and then got back to work. They knew many of the people they serve — Ukrainian kids with cancer — could no longer be treated in their home country. In partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, and their global partners, Tabletochki has helped ensure the continued care of more than 1,000 children. Hundreds have gone to hospitals throughout Europe and North America. Some are being treated at St. Jude in Memphis.
In this episode, Olga Kudinenko and Svitlana Pugach tell us about the work of Tabletochki and their plans for the future, once the war is over.

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Learn more about the SAFER Ukraine initiative and donate:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire.html

Credits: Hosted by Geoffrey Redick. Edited by Grace Korzekwa Evans. Production help from Caleb Suggs and Andres Garcia. Louis Graham is the Executive Producer of St. Jude Inspire.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, are leading an effort to get pediatric cancer patients from Ukraine to safety. In this episode, two ALSAC employees, Natalia Wobst and Yuri Yanishevski, talk about meeting patient families who are being treated at St. Jude in Memphis.

This episode is free of advertising.

Learn more about the SAFER Ukraine initiative and donate:

www.stjude.org/inspire

Credits: Hosted by Geoffrey Redick. Edited by Louis Graham, Executive Producer of St. Jude Inspire. Production help from Joel Frey, Caleb Suggs and Andres Garcia.

A boy, his mom and his teacher represent the Louisiana community that's worked for 45 years to make a difference at St. Jude two states over, and ultimately, everywhere.

The video game Fallout is set in the aftermath of global nuclear annihilation, where a few people struggle to survive in Appalachia. From this virtual wasteland came a stunning real-world creation. Kenneth Vigue thought up a group of characters, found actors to portray them and produced the podcast “Chad: A Fallout 76 Story.” For its hundreds of thousands of listeners, the podcast brings solace and laughter, community, and a call to action on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Credits: Hosted and produced by Geoffrey Redick. Edited by Grace Korzekwa Evans. Special thanks to Amanda Hill. Louis Graham is the executive editor of St. Jude Inspire.

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More about “Chad: A Fallout 76 Story”
https://fallout76podcast.com/

More about Fallout for Hope:
https://www.falloutforhope.com

More about St. Jude Play LIVE
https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/video-game-charity-event.html

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https://www.stjude.org/donate/inspire.html

St. Jude Global launched in May 2018 to train clinical staff in hospitals and clinics around the world, share cutting-edge research, and strengthen partner health systems so even more children receive quality care across the globe. At ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, we teach foundation members of The Global Alliance best practices in fundraising, marketing and communications.

This is the story of Natalia Vilcu, the president of one of those member foundations, Life Without Leukemia ( https://viatafaraleucemie.md ), in Moldova.

There are more than 100 hospitals and clinics, and 50 foundations in 57 countries that participate. Moldova has one of the most active and engaged programs.