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The Childhood Cancer Foundation Candlelighters Canada has achieved a lot since its founding in 1987. But it has not recorded these successes in the fight against childhood cancer by working alone or in isolation.
Literally thousands of Canadian individuals, foundations and corporate partners have been instrumental in helping the Foundation with its critical mission. Whether giving through our direct mail appeals, volunteering your time, donating monthly, holding a special event to raise funds or providing a gift-in-kind such as computers, your gifts of funds, time and spirit are deeply appreciated.
How your donation helps us fulfill our mission
Family Support Funding
$100 ensures that a support kit is sent to a family whose child is diagnosed with cancer. This Kit provides information and support to the family, helping them connect to the Foundation and its services.
$200 helps us bring together mentors for a child and their parents who are facing a cancer journey. This can contribute to better coping mechanisms and healing.
Up to $1,000 allows us to award a scholarship to a young Canadian who has survived cancer. This is our way of celebrating with them their second chance at life – with a scholarship toward their first year of university or college.
$1,000 allows us to help a family in Canada with the costs of final arrangements after the loss of their child.
Research Funding:
$200 provides collection and shipping of one tissue sample from the hospital where the patient is being treated to the lab that will collect samples from all over Canada . Several hundred samples are usually needed to conduct biology or genetic studies.
$1,000 for MRI and psychological assessment on each of 80 patients will help a researcher study the long term neurological effects of cranial radiation for pediatric brain tumours.
$20,000 per year for 4 years will fund a study comparing the quality of life for patients who are having chemotherapy to treat a Wilms tumour, vs those who have a bone marrow transplant to treat their cancer. If the treatments for the cancer give the same chance of cure, what treatment gives the patients a better quality of life?
$60,000 per year funds a research project to collect biological samples from every child with a specific cancer or tumour, collect the clinical and outcome information from the medical record, ship it to the central lab and have a research technician batch and test the samples.
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