Our charity is based in Italy and offers free peer to peer and recreational activities to teenagers and young adults aged 13 - 24 y.o. who have or have had cancer. Being a teenager is hard enough, and when you're diagnosed with cancer your whole world turns upside down. Many of the young people are still treated with kids or adults, and don't have the chance to meet other teenagers going through similar experiences or to have access to recreational activities especially made for their age range. Our goal is to bring these young people together, helping them to do "normal" things despite the illness and create friendships that, in most cases, will last for a lifetime. Through our website and Facebook page we also offer them a virtual place in which they can make their voices heard through sharing posts, thoughts, videos etc.
We've always worked throughout the year to bring much needed childhood and teenage cancer awareness but from 2019 we've made this resolution stronger, making awareness a key part of our charity's goals. Awareness is so important because if people don't know much about a cause or if they know unrealistic things about it they can't help. Beside sharing young people stories and offering them a platform to share their experiences, worries, satisfactions and doubts with people from different areas of Italy and even from abroad who are keen to listen to them, we work hard to create initiatives tailored to increase awareness on childhood and teenage cancer in general or on particular topics related to it.
On 7th Jan. 2019 we launched our online international photograph exhibition called "(IN)VISIBLES - images and voices of childhood cancer fighters" which the public can visit for free here. This includes images and texts from young people and their families through which they share with the public the reality of dealing with a cancer diagnosis as a child, teenager or young adult. The exbibition also offers basic information about childhood and teenage cancer and an intro about the different types of cancer that affected the kids and young people taking part. We also want to use short films as a way to engage the audience and bring awareness. As we were saying before, awareness is key and will hopefully lead to more people becoming advocates on behalf of these youngesters and their loved ones as well as to encourage donations towards childhood cancer research, which at the moment is severly underfunded.
Set up in 2014 by Maricla Pannocchia, in just 4 years the charity has grown a lot starting as a website through which young people could get in touch with others in similar situations through email, today the charity offers free days out in Rome, a free summer residential in Tuscany (open to foreigner young people too), the opportunity for young people in remission to spend a free week in the island of Capraia with their loved ones as well as for foreigner young people the chance to spend a free week in North Italy with their loved ones. We're the only Italian charity to bring young people to Teenage Cancer Trust's event "Find your sense of tumour" in the UK (a conference for young people aged 18-24 y.o. who have or have had cancer). We also take part in national and international events, we join other charities during international campaigns such as September (Childhood Cancer Awareness Month) and 15th February of each year (Childhood Cancer Awareness Day) organizing events in the local area to bring awareness about chilhdood and teenage cancer.
Our main goals is to support these youngesters so they don't have to face cancer alone, being there for them from diagnosis onwards. We also aim to bring much needed awareness about childhood and teenage cancer as well as the lack of funding for pediatric cancer research.
Our charity is still very young, and we need as many people as possible to get involved. You can help us by sharing our social network posts or the link to this page, donating any amount of money you can, organizing a fundraiser for us or if you have any other idea we'll be more than happy to hear it! So, if you want to know more or want to help us in some way first of all THANK YOU and then... get in touch!
We can't wait to hear from you!
Write to us at adolescentiecancro@yahoo.it
Or through our Facebook page.
We've always worked throughout the year to bring much needed childhood and teenage cancer awareness but from 2019 we've made this resolution stronger, making awareness a key part of our charity's goals. Awareness is so important because if people don't know much about a cause or if they know unrealistic things about it they can't help. Beside sharing young people stories and offering them a platform to share their experiences, worries, satisfactions and doubts with people from different areas of Italy and even from abroad who are keen to listen to them, we work hard to create initiatives tailored to increase awareness on childhood and teenage cancer in general or on particular topics related to it.
On 7th Jan. 2019 we launched our online international photograph exhibition called "(IN)VISIBLES - images and voices of childhood cancer fighters" which the public can visit for free here. This includes images and texts from young people and their families through which they share with the public the reality of dealing with a cancer diagnosis as a child, teenager or young adult. The exbibition also offers basic information about childhood and teenage cancer and an intro about the different types of cancer that affected the kids and young people taking part. We also want to use short films as a way to engage the audience and bring awareness. As we were saying before, awareness is key and will hopefully lead to more people becoming advocates on behalf of these youngesters and their loved ones as well as to encourage donations towards childhood cancer research, which at the moment is severly underfunded.
Set up in 2014 by Maricla Pannocchia, in just 4 years the charity has grown a lot starting as a website through which young people could get in touch with others in similar situations through email, today the charity offers free days out in Rome, a free summer residential in Tuscany (open to foreigner young people too), the opportunity for young people in remission to spend a free week in the island of Capraia with their loved ones as well as for foreigner young people the chance to spend a free week in North Italy with their loved ones. We're the only Italian charity to bring young people to Teenage Cancer Trust's event "Find your sense of tumour" in the UK (a conference for young people aged 18-24 y.o. who have or have had cancer). We also take part in national and international events, we join other charities during international campaigns such as September (Childhood Cancer Awareness Month) and 15th February of each year (Childhood Cancer Awareness Day) organizing events in the local area to bring awareness about chilhdood and teenage cancer.
Our main goals is to support these youngesters so they don't have to face cancer alone, being there for them from diagnosis onwards. We also aim to bring much needed awareness about childhood and teenage cancer as well as the lack of funding for pediatric cancer research.
Our charity is still very young, and we need as many people as possible to get involved. You can help us by sharing our social network posts or the link to this page, donating any amount of money you can, organizing a fundraiser for us or if you have any other idea we'll be more than happy to hear it! So, if you want to know more or want to help us in some way first of all THANK YOU and then... get in touch!
We can't wait to hear from you!
Write to us at adolescentiecancro@yahoo.it
Or through our Facebook page.
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