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English: Erniz Nazarkoolov uses a digital camera to take several photos of every visiting person from the Manas Air Base Outreach Society (MABOS). Behind him is Tech. Sgt. Robert Medina, a native of Great Falls, Montana, 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, from the 120th Fighter Wing, Great Falls, Montana. Brandon Pfannenstiel (right), an explosive ordinance disposal specialist, is native to Warrensburg, Missouri, and deployed to the 376th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, Manas Air Base, Kyrgyz Republic, from the 509th Civil Engineering Squadron, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., helps other children use the new coloring books and crayons. Due to chemotherapy many children wear knit caps to keep their baldhead warm in the Kyergyz Republic Cancer Center. This is the only national cancer center in the Kyrgyz Republic, and is one of the Manas Air Base Outreach Society focus group locations. The ward houses 40 patients in 9 rooms, but because of the distance and cost to travel there, a parent of each child stay in residence with them for the one-year treatment of various kinds of cancer, making 80 people in residence. Despite the crowded living conditions, the cancer center reports a 70% recovery rate of early-diagnosed cancer. Although government funded, the money does not pay for all the costs. Damiria Omoorzakovna, principal and lead doctor, spends most of her time raising funds for the center. Recent donations include from an Italian football captain, for $200,000 in bone marrow operations. Another is $3,000,000 dollars from the Italian government for a new facility, but more is needed to cover the total cost. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)