Even small donations can make a significant and sustainable impact on survival rates.
Here’s how your money really does make a difference:
| £25 | will fund food and transport costs for a child and their carer during cancer treatment (around 3 months) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in southern Malawi. |
| £50 | will provide chemotherapy drugs to treat a child with Wilms tumour – a form of kidney cancer which is treatable with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. |
| £100 | will provide palliative care for a child with an incurable cancer in sub-Saharan Africa or south-east Asia – including nursing care and pain relief drugs. |
| £400 | will fund a specialist paediatric oncology nurse for a year in Malawi. |
| £600 | will fund the total cost of treating a child with Burkitts lymphoma including drugs. The equivalent cost in the UK is approximately £70,000. Burkitts lymphoma is the most common cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and is curable in 50% of cases. |
| £1,000 | will fund an advertising campaign in a sub-Saharan African country for a year to raise awareness of the early signs of childhood cancer amongst parents and primary healthcare workers. In developing countries, many child cancers are either undiagnosed or diagnosed at a very advanced stage. Encouraging families to seek medical attention sooner can save children’s lives. |
| £2,000 | will support the establishment and development of a parent support group to provide vital practical and emotional support for the families of children with cancer. By supporting families in this way we can reduce the number of children who fail to complete the full course of treatment. |
| £10,000 | funds a twinning partnership for a year. A twinning partnership is a medical partnership between hospitals in rich and poor countries in which vital medical expertise is transferred to create a new paediatric oncology centre of excellence in a developing country. |
