🎗️ Twenty Years of Making Children Matter🎗️
Twenty years ago, My Child Matters, an initiative of Foundation S, was launched with a simple but powerful belief: a child’s chance of surviving cancer should not depend on where they are born. 🌍📍
🚀 Today, that belief has translated into action for more than 280,000 children in low- and middle-income countries—through earlier diagnosis, stronger health systems, reduced treatment abandonment, better supportive and palliative care, training, registries, telemedicine, and psychosocial support. Always grounded in real-life needs. Always close to children and families.
đź“Ś This special issue of CancerWorld is dedicated entirely to that impact. It shares stories from hashtagColombia, hashtagParaguay, hashtagBolivia, hashtagTanzania, hashtagUkraine, Sub-Saharan hashtagAfrica, and beyond, alongside initiatives such as the My Child Matters Nursing Awards, Programa TELEO, hashtagCheckUpAYA, and the Home Away from Home program developed with Childhood Cancer International – Europe.
We invite you to read this special issue, reflect on what sustained commitment can achieve, and be inspired by what happens when children truly matter.
Kudos to Eric Bouffet, My Child Matters Committee Chairman among many others roles, Trijn Israels from CANCare Africa, Miguel Samudio, Jazmin Servin, Sol Irupe Aponte Bonzi and Angelica Samudio from RENACI Fundacion, Rachel Long from World Child Cancer, Rocio Alonso from TeLeo Program by Sant Juan Deu Hospital, Yuliya Nogovitsyna from Tabletochki, Rehana Punjwani leading MCM Nurses Award at SIOP with Tina Baggott and Susanne Wollaert, Alejandra Mendez from Childhood Cancer International, Hebah Mushtaque, mother of Zenia at Indus Hospital and Health Network, Moses Okipi from Ruharo Mission Hospital, Mariana Nana leading #CheckAYA project on behalf of SLAOP, PAHO and Fundacion Natali Flexer, Carolina Motta from Desiderata, Trish Scanlan from Tumaini La Maisha, Maria Cecilia Quiroga from Fundacion Nuestra Esperanza, Oscar Ramirez from POHEMA fundacion, Liliana Vasquez from PAHO and Eddy Supriyadi from the Universitas Gadjah Mada
