• Honor the courage of kids/teens with cancer and their families
• Offer much-needed recognition and support to kids with cancer and their families It is a reminder for everyone...
• Children can have cancer. Metro Manila cancer registry records in three hospitals, show that eight kids/one very 3 hours, die everyday. Many more cases and deaths remain unreported
• Childhood cancer strikes randomly, unexpectedly, regularly, sparing no age group, socioeconomic status, ethnic group or geographic region. Children as young as a few months, barely able to talk and walk, can already have cancer
• Children can survive cancer, with early diagnosis and prompt, adequate treatment. In developed countries, childhood cancer survival rate is as high as 95%. In the Philippines, sadly, it is only 10to 30%. Of ten who are diagnosed, only two/three will most likely survive. They die because they are poor, unable to afford the high costs of medication and treatment
It is a call to action: Work Together to help neighbors, classmates, and colleagues whose lives may be burdened by childhood cancer
Working together we can help them FACE and BEAT Cancer. We can give them the greatest gift of all --- a chance to live fully -- to have a future
So please, GET INVOLVED. KIDS SHOULD NOT FIGHT CANCER ALONE. There are so many ways you can help.
• Post this message in your bulletin boards, in your churches, at school, at work, in your barangay halls/ community centers, in your blogs or home pages • Pledge any amount to help buy medicines for kids with cancer. As little as P 250.00 will go a long way to save a life
• Let your church leaders, media friends and elected officials know. One child/teen die every three hours because they are too poor to afford the high cost of cancer treatment.
Ask them to DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE DYING
• Sponsor a child for a minimum of P5,000 a month. You can do this with your family, group of friends or co-workers
• Sponsor an event / Make CWFI your beneficiary in special events in your church, school or neighborhood
• Write an article, a story or a letter to the editor on the situation of kids with cancer – the forgotten, neglected children of our society
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