Toys, outing and medication for children with cancer in Bangladesh

Toys, outing and medication for children with cancer in Bangladesh


The economic situation of most people in Bangladesh is not very good at all, but parents of gravely ill children find themselves in even worse circumstances than others.



Some of them sell everything they have to pay for medical treatments for their children, treatments that often do not work since the diagnosis of the illness is often not done well. Knowledge about cancer is minimal with the laymen and often not good enough with doctors. This means that a lot of people think the illness is contagious or that (expensive) injections with antibiotics will cure the cancer. Ashic is a foundation for children with cancer in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It owns it name to the sun of the founders - Ashic Choudhury, who died of cancer when he was three years old. The foundation tries to help as many needing children as possible and to improve the medical infrastructure for childhood cancer. Not an easy task. The situation of children that are seriously ill is extremely sad. They often lie with two in one bed in a dirty hospitalward, there is not enough healthy food, let alone other essentials to make life bearable. We will spare you further details.
Ashic does all it can to improve the quality of life of the children, but not many funds are interested in making donation - since - however sad to say - most of these children will die anyway. 


The center urgently requests money to pay for:

Local anesthetics to use during the bone marrow tests (100 children a month) and chemotherapy (150 children a month), painful treatments that now are done without anesthetic because they can't pay for it.

Healthy food and toys. The toys have to be replaced regularly because they break and because in special cases a child is allowed to take a favorite toy home.

Outings for children that are physically able to. The outings were organized monthly, but because the biggest sponsor of these trips left, the continuation can't be quaranteed anymore.

Ashic is a private initiative of the parents of a deceased child. It is not a highly professional organisation, lack of a network and knowledge to find funds makes it difficult to survive. Nevertheless they managed to give shelter to tens of children and their parents, improve the food, improve the medical care a bit, and find volunteers to give information about cancer in general. Every reason to support them in their work.
For 3000 Euro Ashic can manage to fulfill a lot of their above mentioned wishes. 
TOTAL € 3000,--