“I’ll tell you about one amazing story that I witnessed. I will tell you about what became my role model and the starting point for my own subsequent activity as its essence, basis and foundation.

Hardly anyone knows about it, I am sure there were many such stories of saving lives and true non-public charity in Ruben Vardanyan’s life….

It happened in the early 2000s, my sister’s neighbor was Ruben Vardanyan’s schoolteacher.

Her little grandson had a severe form of diabetes.

Ruben not only helped with expensive and long-term treatment, got the child’s mother a job, but also, having bought this family an apartment in Moscow, completely shielded them from household problems.

A few years later, the child’s grandmother called my sister in hysterics: her daughter was in intensive care in critical condition.

While my sister was rushing to the hospital to talk to the doctors, her neighbor, who is also the grandmother of the saved grandson, who is also the mother of the daughter dying in intensive care, who is also Ruben Vardanyan’s school teacher, was trying to find him, calling all the known phone numbers.

It turned out that the young woman’s liver had failed as a result of a sluggish long-term disease, and a transplant was urgently needed.

The time was limited to a day, two days at most.

Do you know what it is to find a donor liver in Moscow in one day?

Ruben responded, reacted reactively, helped and solved the issue immediately, instantly, fundamentally.

The liver was found overnight, the woman was transferred to the Institute of Transplantology, the operation was successful, and she is still alive and well.

But we are not Ruben, we do not act in time and promptly, we can only grumble and watch.

Resent and lose.

Without drawing conclusions, we can only watch on.

And constantly lamenting, we can sprinkle our heads with ashes.”