I am a patient support organisation

Many of Childhood Cancer International (CCI) members established sustainable and successful foundations. You are welcome to reach out to CCI for mentorship and knowledge sharing. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Remember, you are not alone and CCI is there to support and guide you.

Many parents who have been through the childhood cancer journey have a need to give back either to honour their child, to support other families facing the same journey, to address the unmet needs in the health system, to raise awareness about childhood cancer, to raise funds for treatment or supportive care programmes, to provide  sense of purpose and healing, to build a supportive community, to advocate for the children’s rights, to fill the gap left by their own experience or the contribute to research and improved outcomes. 

One of the guiding principles of all those involved in childhood cancer is that the patients and their families should never feel alone in their difficult times. In 2000, Mark Chesler and Sara Eldridge launched the concept ‘You are not alone’. Internationally this term has been used by childhood cancer foundations to make parents, survivors, patients and their dear ones feel loved and cared for.