Valentino is 16 years old and has lung cancer. Valentino lives in one of the poor suburbs of Wellington in the Western Cape, in conditions in which nobody should live, let alone someone with a dread disease like Childhood Cancer and a severely impaired immune system.
Nutritious Smoothie Recipes for Children with Cancer
An easy way to ensure that your Child with Cancer gets sufficient vitamins and nutrition when they find it difficult to eat due to cancer treatments is to make them some delicious cancer-beating smoothies to drink using fruit and veg that have cancer-fighting properties in them,
Become an LFCT 🧝♀️Christmas Elf🧝🏾♂️
LFCT currently has over 50 Individual Childhood Cancer Affected Families registered with us (these nunmbers can change daily, and more and more are needing help as they succumb to COVID-19 side-effects such as unemployment. We cannot just give presents to the Child with Cancer, as all their siblings really also have a very difficult time of it because Childhood Cancer Affects the Whole Family!
Where Have All The Children Gone?
In South Africa, many many more children die of cancer each year than is necessary. In this modern era of high-tech medical treatment some 70% of childhood cancers are completely curable…
…if diagnosed in time!
How is it then that in South Africa we only have a 20% survival rate for childhood cancer? How?
✨Foodie Friday✨ Pass da Pasta
We have decided to bring back what was once a very popular feature on our old blog – Our Foodie Friday Recipes! Every Friday we will post easy recipes for the harried onco mom to make for her child with cancer – recipes that are not difficult, are aimed at tittilating those chemo-affected tastebuds, and which are also very nutritional for a child with cancer so that they can build up their immune system. Enjoy!
Complementary and Alternative Therapies: What You Need to Know
It’s impossible to describe the pure, desperate frustration that is a fact of daily life when you have a child with cancer. Here at the Little Fighters Cancer Trust we know what parents go through because we hear the stories every day, and we follow each of our Little Fighters’ battles. When the bad news […]
This candle burns for Little Fighters who lost the Battle
🎗Always in our Hearts 🎗
