Our Purpose
Finding out your child has cancer turns your life upside down. It happens to more than three Kiwi families every week. None of them ever thought it would happen to their child.
Our kaupapa
Cancer doesn’t care about these children or their families. Child Cancer Foundation does.
We support them every step of the way, helping them overcome challenges and maintain control of their lives.
We focus on the whānau, not the cancer. No two families’ experiences are the same, and neither is the nature of the support they need.
One thing is always the same: we support every family so they can concentrate on the most important thing of all, loving and caring for their child.
Our aim
Our goal is for each family to have the strength to say goodbye to us one day.
Having a child diagnosed with cancer can change a family forever, so we help them adapt to their new reality. In time, our support will help them find the tools they need to move forward with their lives
How we make a difference
Here are just some of the ways we supported 1,494 families in 2019/20:
159
Families joined the Beads of Courage® programme
85
Families support with counselling; 34 through bereavement
655
Family grocery shops paid for
85
Personal Development Grants awarded
21
Connect Groups run by volunteers nationwide
26
Families supported through bereavement with funeral costs
Take a look
Annual Review 2020/21
Ma te hīkaka ka manawaroa tonu - Stamina and endurance is resilience personified.
Thank you to Kaumātua Sonny Niha for generously gifting us this whakataukī to represent the theme for our 2020/21 Annual Review: resilience.