Introduction
Childhood cancer is often curable, with an 84% survival rate in high-income countries. However, in many low-income countries survival rates are 10% or lower with many children never even receiving a diagnosis, instead they die of a mystery illness without palliative care. World Child Cancer improves the diagnosis, treatment and support of children with cancer in low and middle-income countries and provides support to their families.
They achieve this by twinning the hospitals in Africa and Asia with leading childhood cancer units in high-income countries. These partnerships, together with staff training and mentoring, provide valuable transfer of expertise which builds the sustainable capacity and knowledge of doctors and nurses in-country. They also develop holistic care for families, support treatment costs, provide ward equipment and fund essential staff posts. To affect long term change, they also deliver awareness-raising programmes and liaise with policy-makers at home and abroad.
Grants Awarded to WCC by One Kind Act
14 March 2021: As a
result of One Kind Act’s very successful fund-raising effort at the Child of
Mine Ball held in December 2019, we have been able to make another substantial
grant of £10,250 to help towards improving and treating the incidence
of death in children with cancer in Malawi, by specifically covering the
cost of drugs, transport, pathology and nutrition. Monies given by us will be
doubled by the UK government and therefore will have double impact.
15 June 2020: We
thank Children’s Hunger Relief Fund (CHRF), a Sri-Lanka based charity we
support, for their very kind donation of £1000 made from their
charity reserves towards World Child Cancer to help towards mitigating the
impact of Covid 19 in Bangldesh. This will be done through reducing exposure of
health care staff to infection, purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE)
for them, educating parents so that they know how to protect them.
11 May 2020: As a
result of One Kind Act’s very successful fund-raising effort at the Child of
Mine Ball held in December 2019, a grant of £5,000 was made to World
Child Cancer to help towards mitigating the impact of Covid 19 in
Bangldesh. This will be done through reducing exposure of health care staff to
infection, purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for them, educating
parents so that they know how to protect themselves and their
children and of course, through protecting children with cancer from
the risk of coronavirus and ensuring they can continue receiving the treatment,
drugs and care they so desperately need, .
19 January 2020:
As a result of One Kind
Act’s very successful fund-raising effort at the Child of Mine Ball held in
December 2019, a grant of £25,416 in total was made to World Child
Cancer to help towards 1. supporting families with the costs of diagnosis,
drugs, transport and nutrition. around Malawi that are not funded by the
state. A minimum of £7955 will be used for treatment & diagnosis,
which honours the specific pledges made by guests on the night of the Child of
Mine Ball 2. facilitate twinning visits of experts in paediatric oncology from
the UK to train hospital staff at QECH in Malawi
About One Kind Act
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