By LeAnn Fickes | Operations & Development Manager
Hello Supporters!
We'd like to thank each and every one of you for supporting our project in Ghana. Your generosity has raised almost $6,000 for the project, which is enough to buy life-saving chemotherapy drugs for at least 75 children. Thank you!
Our project at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra has made amazing progress in 2013, thanks to your contributions. Bi-annual training workshops were held at the project center in Accra and also at the first satellite center in Kumasi. More than 40 professionals attended the trainings, led by project leader Dr. Lorna Renner and medical professionals from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in the UK. Medical specialists from Celgene also led a training workshop on the use of chemotherapy and managing complications in patients. Thanks to our fantastic medical volunteers who donate their time, your contributions go further.
Additionally, the local parent support group and Dr. Renner led country-wide awareness with talks on TV, radio, newspaper articles, rallies and celebrity advocates. Awareness campaigns are important to let communities know the signs of childhood cancer and that cancer can be cured. For pictures from our latest project visit, please view our Facebook album, here.
World Child Cancers projects in Accra and Kumasi are currently caring for 250 children per year. However, it's estimated that there are 1,000 new childhood cancer cases in Ghana every year. In the next three years, World Child Cancer is planning on establishing an additional 4 satellite centers to help more children throughout Ghana.
We've reached our initial goal of $5,000 and have increased our goal to $12,000 to be able to expand our project to help more children, like three-year-old Peggy, in Ghana. Peggy and her family traveled over 6 hours from Tarkwa in order for Peggy to receive chemotherapy for Wilms' tumor (kidney cancer). She's doing well and will begin her second round of treatment soon, thanks to your support.
THANK YOU once again to all of our amazing supporters for allowing us to continue helping children in Ghana! We're so happy to have your ongoing support. Stay tuned for more updates in 2014!
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