Twinning partnerships are an essential element of every project.  Poverty and complex cultural issues only partly account for the low survival rate of children with cancer in low to middle income countries.  A shortage of specialist healthcare professionals and a lack of awareness about childhood cancer symptoms and the possibility of curative treatment even amongst medics present major challenges.  

To redress the shortage of specialist healthcare professionals and lack of awareness about child cancer we develop twinning partnerships in which a hospital in a developing country is teamed up with an experienced hospital in a developed country.   Through these partnerships vital medical expertise and skills are transferred to medics in developing countries.   The diagram below explains how the twinning partnership works in practise for our project in Colombia.