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PROJECT
CARE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED
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Starting
1 July 2002, the Sarawak Children's Cancer
Society will receive RM80 from every Maxis
mobile phone registration made through a
consortium of mobile phone dealers throughout
Sarawak.
This fund-raising scheme, aptly dubbed Project
Care, was launched by Social Development and
Urbanisation Minister Dato Sri Dr James Jemut
Masing o:n 1 July 2002 at Dewan Asajaya,
Holiday Inn Kuching.
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Initiated and organised by the Rotary Club of
Kuching Central, the project will run for a
three month period during which the organisers
hope to raise at least RM60,000 for the
society. |
Under the
project, the consortium, Profit Summary Sdn
Bhd, will donate RM40 from every Maxis
registration to SCCS, sum which represents all
their profits. This sum will be topped up
ringgit-for-ringgit by Maxis Mobile Sdn Bhd.
The funds raised through Project Care will go
towards providing drugs for cancer |
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treatment
and maintaining pinprick blood-analysing
equipment at the Sarawak General Hospital's
cancer unit.
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The
project also aims to help support a halfway
house providing temporary accommodation for
child cancer patients and their families while
undergoing treatment in Kuching. In addition,
Project Care hopes to create greater public
awareness of cancer among children. Statistics
show that 60 to 70 new cases of childhood
cancer are diagnosed annually in Sarawak. The
most common types of childhood cancer are
leukaemia, brain tumours, neuroblastoma,
Wilm's tumour and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
In
view of this, a primary role of SCCS is to
provide emotional and moral support to parents
and relatives of children with cancer through
informal chat groups, friendships and the
sharing of experiences among members.
SCCS is a relatively young charity, having
been set up only three years ago and formally
launched in April this year by its patron
Datin Paduka Hajjah Sharifah Mordiah Tuanku
Haji Fauzi, the Assistant Minister for Welfare
and Women's Affairs. Members of the public are
welcome to make donations to SCCS, thereby
helping the charity to provide financial
assistance to needy child cancer patients and
their families. |
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