Cansa urges local schools to feed their piggy bank project
Once the piggy banks of each school’s grade has been collected and the funded tummies counted, a floating trophy will be awarded to the winner.
Cansa’s local Global Hero of Hope, Claudine Venter, rose to the task of facilitating the organisation’s fund-raising project in Kempton schools as Covid-19 restricts traditional methods.
So far, Venter has roped in participation from Laerskool Van Riebeeckpark, Laerskool Edleen and Shangri La Academy.
“Each grade in these schools were given piggy banks to fill during the first school term and the grade whose piggy has the fullest funded tummy will receive a floating trophy,” Venter explained.
To date, she has collected piggy banks from Laerskool Edleen as well as Laerskool Van Riebeeckpark. Once all the funds have been collected and counted, the winner of the floating trophy will be determined.
Cansa’s Relay For Life coordinator in Eastern Gauteng, Tamara Wittstock said: “We are looking forward to partnering with local schools in raising much-needed funds for our cancer patients and their families, as well as raising awareness and teaching prevention in the various communities.
“Also, we are looking forward to building a lasting relationship with the schools and their staff in the fight against cancer. For us to continue delivering our service to our communities, we need to raise these funds as we do not receive any funding from the government and solely rely on our communities to help us in the fight against cancer,” Wittstock concluded.
As a double stage four Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor and author of a self-published book about her cancer journey, Venter told Express that she would be thrilled if more schools joined hands.
Cansa offers a unique integrated service to the public and all people affected by cancer. As a leading role-player in cancer research (R4.5-million spent annually), the scientific findings and knowledge gained from their research are used to realign their health programmes and strengthening their watchdog role to the greater benefit of the public.
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Cansa’s wide-reaching health programme includes prevention and education campaigns, patient care and support in the form of 13 interim homes and care centres that offer stoma and lymphoedema clinics, medical equipment hire, toll-free line and support to children and their families affected by cancer via the Cansa Tough Living with Cancer (TLC) programme.
Cansa gives out free cancer coping kits in English, seSotho, isiZulu and Afrikaans.
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