By Daniela Sepulveda | Coordinator of the childhood cancer program
With your contribution, we can help more children with cancer!
Cancer not only brings physical changes to a child's life, but also emotional, social, economic, and professional changes for their family. These changes require adjustments and adaptation that often generate individual and family tensions. To help families cope with these changes, our psychologists listen and support them, and to help with the stress and uncertainty that are normal in these processes, we offer wellness sessions. This is how we have created spaces to carry out laughter therapy sessions, in which volunteer artists visit the rooms of hospitalized children and young people to entertain, connect with emotions, hug, and laugh.
Luciana is a 10-year-old girl, diagnosed with acute leukemia, who has enjoyed these visits because, as she says, "When the clown comes, I feel better and I forget the pain." Her mother, in turn, is grateful to see her daughter laugh even in the midst of the illness, the treatment, and the sadness of being away from her home and family.
We want to continue bringing more laughter therapy sessions to hospitalized children to contribute to their well-being.
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