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The Mexican Association of Aid to Children with Cancer of San Luis Potosi, A.C. (AMANC SLP) was founded on January 17, 2005, by a group of potosinas families, aware of the need to help children with cancer, of limited resources and without social security who do not have the opportunity to receive a treatment that helps them In their daily struggle to conquer this disease. We belong to the AMANC system, which has its headquarters in Mexico City and is present in 24 states of the country, however, each AMANC Center is independent and organized according to its economic possibilities (donors in cash and / or in kind). Our mission is that all children and adolescents in our state diagnosed with cancer, with limited economic resources and without social security, have the best supports and resources for their treatment. Currently we have a register of 460 children and adolescents, we give them lodging, food and we pay them all the medicines - both oncological and collateral to cancer - that they need. In addition, we provide official education since we have a school classroom, we provide support, emotional support and spiritual support. We also paid for funeral and ambulance services. We offer an average of 1500 meals and lodging to 450 people per month. Our vision: that, in the medium term, all children and adolescents in our state diagnosed with cancer receive optimal integral care. To achieve this, we have the following objectives: Eliminate defections in children with cancer. Provide our beneficiaries with all the medicines they require for their treatment. Provide the patient and his family with all the psychosocial and spiritual support they require.

Founded in 1942, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is a multifaceted organization that occupies a unique place in the world of philanthropy. By mobilizing and leveraging the powerful voice and creative talents of the entertainment industry, as well as cultivating the support of organizations (public and private) and philanthropists committed to social responsibility, EIF builds awareness and raises funds, developing and enhancing programs on the local, national and global level that facilitate positive social change.Stand Up To Cancer, a division of EIF, raises funds to accelerate the pace of groundbreaking translational research that can get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital seeks to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of their founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay. St. Jude’s strives to be the world leader in advancing the treatment and prevention of catastrophic diseases in children, by providing outstanding patient care; conducting basic, translational and clinical research designed to elucidate biological mechanisms, understand disease pathogenesis, improve diagnosis, enhance treatment outcome, prevent diseases and minimize adverse consequences of treatment; and by educating health care and scientific research professionals. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago.

Hong Kong Cancer Fund (HKCF) is Hong Kong's largest cancer support organisation, providing free information and professional support to anyone living with or affected by cancer. Our goal is to make life better for people touched by cancer. Our Mission: We ensure no one faces cancer alone. Background Established in 1987, our vision was to better the quality of cancer support in Hong Kong and ensure that no one faces cancer alone. We began by offering free information and support to anyone touched by cancer, which has slowly expanded over time to address all aspects of living with cancer. Our work now encompasses public education, cancer research, home care, peer support, complementary therapies, funding of hospital equipment and much more in filling the gaps in cancer care and making life better for people touched by cancer. The aims of HKCF are to help people adjust to living with cancer and to make life better for people touched by cancer, addressing all aspects of the cancer journey. The objectives are to provide free services with professional carers who help clients manage the physical, emotional, psychological and social challenges brought about by a cancer diagnosis. By offering a wide range of free support and rehabilitation programme, our goal is to empower individuals so that their cancer journey is as comforting, informed and stress-free as possible. Hong Kong Cancer Fund's services are free! Receiving no money from the government, we rely solely on public generosity to sustain our free and on-going cancer support services.

Their mission is to ease the effects of cancer through the creative arts. It is well documented that the creative arts can help reduce anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue as well as increase quality of life in patients with cancer. Curtain Up strives to expand opportunities for creative arts to assist cancer patients as well as family and friends in their healing process.

TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THE CANCER TREATMENT PROCESS.