Support children with cancer around the world

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Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world
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Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world
Support children with cancer around the world

Project Report | Nov 30, 2023
Giving children with cancer the gift of growing up

By Anna Tullgren | Individual Giving & Events Manager

Adil, Age 13 from Bangladesh
Adil, Age 13 from Bangladesh

World Child Cancer supports children with cancer and their families in lower income countries. Through our funding of diagnosis, treatment, transport to hospital, family accommodation, play therapy and counselling we ensure that every child can not only survive, but thrive.

Every day over 1000 children across the world develop cancer. In countries such as the UK, over 80% of children of these children will survive. However, 4 out of 5 of the children diagnosed with cancer live in lower income countries where Doctors, Nurses, drugs and equipment that these children need are in desperately short supply or simply unaffordable to families. Sadly, this means that survival rates for children in these countries can be as low as 10%.

World Child Cancer supports the families of children with cancer to cover the costs of diagnosis, treatment, drugs, transport and accommodation. We also fund patient nutrition, counselling and play therapy. This ensures children can receive a swift diagnosis and are financially, physically and emotionally equipped to stay in treatment for their cancer. This has a phenomenal impact, exemplified by our programme in Ghana which has increased survival rates by nearly 25% over the last five years.

Your support means that more children with cancer in lower-income countries can have access to the life-saving treatment that they need to survive and deserve.  Children and families will be able to afford diagnostic tests, treatment and their visits to hospital and will receive the psychosocial support they need to reduce the long-term emotional impact of their diagnosis.  Your support will mean that children like Adil not only survive, but thrive.

Thank you for helping to give children with cancer the gift of growing up!

 

 

 

 

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World Child Cancer

Location: London - United Kingdom
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World Child Cancer
Rebecca Ross
Project Leader:
Rebecca Ross
London , London United Kingdom

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