This project supports 300 disadvantaged Nigerian children with cancer to complete cancer treatment. It will provide safe accommodation, three meals daily, hospital transport, medicines, counselling, and play therapy for children and caregivers traveling from rural areas. By removing financial and logistical barriers, families can focus on care, ensuring children complete therapy and significantly improve survival rates.
Specialized pediatric cancer care in Nigeria is concentrated in major urban hospitals. Children from rural communities face high costs for transport, accommodation, meals, and medicines, making it difficult to complete treatment. Over 70% of these children default on therapy, leaving potentially curable cancers untreated. Families face financial stress and emotional trauma, resulting in preventable deaths.
Empower Future Initiative provides a safe hostel near hospitals with accommodation, three daily meals, transport to treatment, essential medicines, counselling, and play therapy. Families can focus entirely on their children's care without financial or logistical worry. This support ensures children from rural areas complete therapy, improves adherence to treatment plans, and increases survival chances for curable pediatric cancers.
Every year, 200 children will complete treatment and have higher chances of surviving cancer. Families gain emotional and psychosocial support, reducing stress and trauma. The project strengthens rural healthcare access and ensures children from disadvantaged communities can finish therapy. By supporting treatment completion and providing safe, nurturing care, this initiative gives hope, health, and a future to vulnerable Nigerian children with cancer.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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