Mass support for flip flop fundraiser for children with cancer
Choc Childhood Cancer Foundation SA Flip Flop Day 2022 fundraiser reels in over R2-million
OVER two million rand was raised during the third ‘Flip Flop Day – Have a heart and wear a sole’ campaign led by the Choc Childhood Cancer Foundation SA earlier this year.
South Africans once again showed their generosity and support to children and teens with cancer through this fundraiser.
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Choc’s annual fundraising event was celebrated on 18 February, and was bigger and better and filled with more ‘sole’.
Choc CEO Hedley Lewis said Flip Flop Day has been an incredible campaign; one that surpassed all expectations including the number of stickers sold, the number of children and schools that participated, and the number of boardrooms that simultaneously had jackets and flips flops.
‘We would like to thank South Africa for embracing Flip Flop Day by having a heart and wearing a sole for children with cancer, and for, most importantly, the awareness created around the journey of patients undergoing cancer treatment.’
The monies raised from Flip Flop Day 2022 are earmarked for Choc’s core programmes.
These include child, teen and family support which includes, transport funds to go home and return for treatment; bereavement support when a child passes away, including grocery hampers for destitute families, care bags to children, and welcome bags to caregivers.
There is also psycho social support where the social worker walks the journey with the child and family from diagnosis to end, whether remission or end of life.
Accommodation at Choc is available for as long as a child is going through treatment and requires transport to and from the treatment centre.
The services are offered to all children with cancer, but it is those children who access the public health system who are the most vulnerable and who require the services the most.
Funds raised are also used to advocate on behalf of those whose lives have been affected by childhood cancer, when there is no availability of medication, through awareness campaigns and lobbying.
