By Daniela Sepulveda | Coordinator of the childhood cancer program
With your contribution, we can help more young people with cancer!
At the end of 2025, our youth leader Sara met at the hospital with other young people currently undergoing treatment. The goal of this meeting was to facilitate emotional expression surrounding their cancer diagnosis and treatment. To achieve this, Sara suggested working with modeling clay. A survivor of acute leukemia, she recalled feeling like the disease was a monster that had come to change everything in her life during her treatment. Therefore, she encouraged the young people to mold their own monsters out of modeling clay to express their fears, uncertainties, frustrations, and everything the disease had brought into their lives.
It was an enriching and emotional experience, as verbal communication among them fostered bonds of trust that facilitated the management of their hidden emotions, which they had not expressed in any other context. Creating their own monsters with modeling clay increased their awareness of their fears and anxieties. For example, 16-year-old Mario said that when he was diagnosed with leukemia, he felt very self-conscious: “Everyone was looking at me,” and that made him feel strange. That's why his monster has many eyes. The other participants identified with this feeling and all shared similar experiences.
You too can contribute to initiatives like this. What do you think of our work?
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
