Tuesday 11 July 2017

NGO Caters for Children Living with Cancer

Rebecca Ejifoma
Children Living with Cancer Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, is set to carry on with its quest for children living with cancer in Nigeria on July 21st this year at The Little Theatre Hall of Lagos Country Club, Joel Ogunaike Street, Ikeja GRA, at 11am.

The event, which will run on the theme, ‘Passion for Life', Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside will lead other discussants at the forum which will be chaired by Erelu Abiola Dosunmu alongside other ndividuals and representatives of organisations with very resounding corporate social responsibility records.


According to  Founder, Dr. Nneka Nwobbi, CLWCF is Nigeria's only childhood cancer advocacy and funding organisation. It’s Non-Governmental and Not for Profit Organisation.

“In the past 14 years, the organisation says it has engaged in providing medications and, where applicable, living expenses for children living with cancer and their families,” she said.

Sadly, Nwobbi decried that many childhood cancer sufferers had died even when they had hopes of survival but needed just a little more funding beyond the Foundation efforts could take them. It’s in the light of this that Children Living with Cancer Foundation have created a forum for discussion on raising awareness about childhood cancer with a theme: Passion for Life.

She further assured pressmen that their efforts had helped in saving lives of sufferers of childhood cancers with some of them now volunteering as ambassadors in the awareness campaigns and public enlightenment programme of the foundation.

It’s a gathering of socially responsible individuals and organizations to discuss the need for concerted efforts at helping to save lives of childhood cancer sufferers, and make all stakeholders come to the realization that cancer is curable and not a death sentence. With much collective efforts, the survival rate of childhood cancer sufferers in Nigeria can be pushed to 10:10 from the present 1:10 ratio.

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