{"id":122,"date":"2020-12-01T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:45:21","slug":"end-of-year-message-from-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"End of year message from the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Friends and Supporters<br>\u00a0<br>As this unbelievable year comes to an end, everyone here at Uganda Cancer Trust UK, and all\u00a0our colleagues in Uganda, would like to send you our very best wishes for a Happy Christmas and a safe and healthful 2021.\u00a0<br><br>Your support\u00a0has been fantastic, and has enabled us to provide a small fund to Makerere and Mulago Palliative Care Unit (MMPCU) for them to help patients in need,\u00a0with basic necessities like food for caregivers, help with transport costs or a toy to bring a smile to\u00a0a child having chemotherapy.\u00a0We have also\u00a0set up a treatment fund which MMPCU will administer so that patients who can\u2019t afford diagnostics tests or treatments can be helped with the costs.<br><br>And of course you also responded to the requests to help both our partners with additional\u00a0COVID expenses. All this help has been much appreciated but the situation is still very difficult for ordinary people. Transport costs have doubled because of restrictions on numbers of passengers, jobs have been lost and many people are struggling just to get enough food, let alone pay for medical treatment. We continue to look for additional funding so if you are able to help please do make a donation via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givey.com\/ugandacancer\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.givey.com\/ugandacancer\">Givey<\/a>. Thank you so much.<br><br>Our UK\u00a0partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantageafrica.org\/\">Advantage Africa<\/a>, continue\u00a0their great work helping people with albinism identify skin cancer problems as early as possible through their\u00a0mobile screening service.\u00a0Sadly sometimes cancers are too advanced for local cryotherapy treatment, so we have supported the costs of more extensive surgery and follow up therapy. One example\u00a0this\u00a0summer was\u00a0Jessica, a grandmother who was suffering with lesions in her foot which\u00a0prevented\u00a0her walking. I am delighted\u00a0that she has now completed her treatment, and it looks as though she should be up and about as normal before too long.\u00a0<br><br>Our thanks too to the members of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk\/community-life\/groups\/boat-blackfriars-overseas-aid-trust\/\"> Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust<\/a> in Oxford for their continued support for Liz Nabirye, the Information Nurse at MMPCU. Liz has\u00a0sent a letter of thanks which you can read <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/1mKnxkzeOinDOR2MNTb8l2iUZwOChrDDP\/edit?usp=docslist_api&amp;filetype=msword\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br>\u00a0<br>Thank you as ever for reading this and for your support.\u00a0<br><br>Christine Whitehouse<br>Chair of the Trustees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends and Supporters\u00a0As this unbelievable year comes to an end, everyone here at Uganda Cancer Trust UK, and all\u00a0our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugandacancer.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}