St Jude is a research hospital in US that treats children who have cancer. They treat children both from the US and from outside the US, free of charge. If you know the US health system, you know what a big deal that is. They make their research freely and globally available, which in a world governed by the rush for profit, is also a big deal. They’re also spearheading an effort with the WHO to make cancer treatment more accessible and affordable to children around the world (Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer). 80% of children in high income countries survive cancer, but only 20% of children in low income countries do – and that’s because cancer medications (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc) are incredibly expensive. I live in a high income country and have a high income myself, but if my treatments weren’t funded by our healthcare system, I would have gone bankrupt.

Blood cancers (just like the one I had) are the most common cancers in children, and they are brutal. The cancers are aggressive, the treatment is aggressive, and any child that has to go through that, wherever they live in the world, wherever they happen to have been born, deserves the best chance that they can get — and I am saying that as an adult who’s lived through the experience.

So, go to this link and donate generously: https://relay.experience.stjude.org
Relay FM are running a donation drive this month, which is both Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and Blood Cancer Awareness month, and there are some goodies you can get through the campaign. And if you like cool pens, the Pen Addict and Studio Neat are running raffles for the event (donate separately please!).

They say that you need to repeat things 7 times for people to remember and act on them, so I’ve linked to the campaign 14 times in this post, just to be doubly sure you get the message.

Please give generously:

https://relay.experience.stjude.org