Mission
- To provide hands-on in-patient support to Children with Cancer, working in association with regional hospital specialist children's oncology wards, providing amenities and where necessary, financial aid in visiting travel costs for needy parents and siblings.
- To provide special Alpine Healing Holidays of Adventure for out-patient Children recovering from Cancer, enabling them to regain their self-confidence and re-ignite their passion for life after the trauma of their illness and lengthy treatment.
- To provide emergency funds for amenities, equipment and facilities to adult Cancer sufferers in order to ameliorate their sickness, improve their quality of life, limit their stress and, where possible, help their recovery.
- To fund ethical original research into the causes, early diagnosis, treatment and cure of Cancer, and prevention of Cancer at pre-cancerous stage, at specialist gynaecological oncology research laboratories that do not use live animals or embryonic human stem cells.
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