Our Stories
Meet some of the patients, families and teams who have inspired us in our work to ensure children with cancer in the developing world have equal access to treatment and care.

Ghana
Latifa came from a large, loving family in Zoosali, a village in northern Ghana. She was just three years old when she developed eye cancer.
Latifa’s family first noticed that something was wrong when a white spot appeared in her eye. When traditional medicines and eye drops failed to work, Latifa’s parents took her to the eye clinic at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where she underwent eye removal surgery.
The surgery cost Latifa’s family two months’ income, leaving them under severe financial pressure. Without enough money to pay for the
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Bulu lives with his father (Mr Adlem - a local village tailor), mother (a subsistence farmer) and four brothers in a
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Glenn Mbah qualified with a BSc in Nursing from the University of Buea, Cameroon in 2009. He joined the Cameroon
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May, who is nearly 3 years old, loves fashion, cars, dominos and building blocks. She was diagnosed with leukaemia at
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Oscar was six years old when his mother noticed a swelling on his tummy and took him to a traditional village doctor,
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Simon Bailey is a Professor of Neuro –Oncology and consultant paediatric oncologist and Head of the Paediatric Oncology
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Tisungeni Chitseko was a happy, healthy child that lived in southern Malawi with her parents and two siblings but at
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Megan is a consultant in paediatric palliative care from Canada who is the project lead for World Child Cancer
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Maaria lives with her two children and husband, who is unemployed, about four hours travel from Accra, the capital of