Dr. Lisa Glinka, Mother Tereza of Russia

Dr. Lisa Glinka (google ())

 Lisa Glinka was a doctor for whom there were no other people's children and other people's troubles. She helped those who had almost no hope of help - homeless, seriously ill, lonely. She was not a woman of words, but actions. She looked fragile, but showed selflessness and fearlessness.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow. Her father was a military man. Her mother was a doctor. In 1986 she finished Moscow State Medical Institute.  The same year her husband and she left Russia for the USA. In 1991 she received a second medical degree in palliative medicine. Glinka began to work in a hospice.
In the late 90's, Glinka moved to Kiev, where her husband worked. There she organized the first hospice chambers in the cancer center. When the two-year contract of Gleb Glinka was over, the family returned to the United States, but Elizabeth Glinka regularly visited the Kiev hospice and worked there.

In 2007, when her mother became ill, Glinka went to Moscow. She founded the charity fund A Just Aid. The members of the organization help socially unprotected people, including homeless people. In August 2010, the Just Aid Fund organized assistance to victims of forest fires. In the winter of 2010-2011, the fund organized the points for heating the homeless and collected dozens of kilograms of humanitarian aid.
With the beginning of the armed conflict in the Ukraine Glinka took part in the evacuating sick and injured children from territory held by pro-Russian separatists. She moved them to hospitals of Moscow or Saint Petersburg, where they could receive medical attention. 500 hundred of small patients got medical treatment thanks to her help. She travelled more than 20 times into conflict zones.

Dr. Lisa and Family (Svetlana Khodko ())

In 2015 and 2016 Doctor Liza as a member of the Human Rights Council met with the citizen of Ukraine Nadezhda Savchenko, who was under investigation in Russia. Doctor Lisa collected special drugs that helped Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko save her life during her long hunger strike.

The family of Elizabeth and Gleb Glinka has two sons - Konstantin and Alexei, who live in the USA. The adopted son - Ilya lives in Saratov. Elizabeth Glinka adopted Ilya Shvets after his mother died of cancer.

Since 2015 she visited Syria with humanitarian missions, took part in the delivery and distribution of medicines, primarily medicines for cancer patients and newborn, the organization of medical care for the civilian population.

It is very difficult for me to see the killed and wounded children of Donbas, the sick and dead children of Syria," said Glinka, stressing that human rights defenders are out of politics.
"But we are sure that goodness, compassion and mercy work stronger than any weapon,"

On the 25th of December 2016 doctor. Lisa died n the Tu-154 crash. She was to fly to Syria to help the wounded and sick children.
She was truly loved and respected by common people, both the human rights and medical community. Her fund staff could not hold back tears when they talked about the disaster. 

Memorial for Dr. Lisa (Svetlana Khodko ())

In the charity fund of Doctor Lisa, in Moscow, before the New Year, they usually have warm clothes, medicines and white bread. On that black Sunday - bunches of roses and funeral candles. At the entrance to the basement, which every Moscow homeless man knows, three mourning balloons were tied up.
Not only those she helped came there to say to Elizaveta Glinka the last "thanks", but completely unfamiliar people. They told that they had never really done charity work. 
"Everybody wanted to come to her fund, to find out what one can do, but one thing, then another, all business," the woman said. "Now, for the sake of her memory, I swear, tomorrow I'll go and start doing something.."
Donetsk. Varya Dodnik. Aged 6 years. The girl had been crying all morning. Because she remembered that Aunt Lisa had given her a chocolate, and then had taken her out from under shelling, so that in Russia surgeons saved her small heart.

There were flowers and candles. In the morning, in the afternoon or in the evening there would be a frost, or a blizzard, or a flood - they would still come here, where Elizaveta Glinka had worked. Where doctor Lisa had forced death to retreat. Not for rewards or money. Or glory. At the risk of her own life, she always and everywhere fought for others, as if not noticing the danger. And she believed that once the war would end, that there would be no more hungry and wounded."

In Moscow, hundreds of people with flowers gathered at her fund. They remembered all. And they looked at the smile of Doctor Lisa. Now only in the photo.