Image: "Tapas Para Sanar" or "Caps to heal" / Courtesy: Sanar Foundation - Colombia.
Brighten lives with Tapas para Sanar or Caps to Heal
Sanar Foundation promotes a nice initiative to help improve the quality of life and well-being of children with cancer.
Video in Spanish / Courtesy: Sanar Foundation – Colombia.
Recycling plastic lids, paper, cardboard, among others, makes it possible to finance programs for social and psychological support, early diagnosis, information, and medical treatment for children and adolescents with cancer who are in the ‘Sanar Foundation’.
A beautiful initiative that began in Colombia, in 1989, with the purpose of transforming recyclable materials and selling them, to raise funds, which are destined to improve the quality of life and well-being of minors.
Several public, private and private companies have joined the cause. To join this noble work, it is very simple, you can collect the lids and deposit them in collectors of the Sanar Foundation arranged in the integrated organizations or send them free through the courier company 472.
If you want an authorized collector to collect plastic lids or send another type of recyclable material to the entity, you can contact the Sanar Foundation at the email reciclaje@sanarcancer.org
For more information go to http://sanarcancer.org/ or http://www.tapasparasanar.com/
Context
According to the Sanar Foundation, every year in the country there are an average of 2,200 new cases of childhood cancer, which if diagnosed on time could be cured.
According to the National Institute of Cancerology “the incidence rate of new cases of childhood cancer in the country is, on average, higher than in Latin America. The most worrying thing is that the survival rates of children between 5 and 10 years of age do not reach 50% when in other countries, including Central America, they range between 80 and 90%”.
It also adds that “in Colombia the leading cause of illness and death from childhood cancer is acute leukemia, with 539 cases and 295 deaths each year.”
Therefore, with “Tapas para Sanar” or “Caps to Heal”, you can cheer up and save the lives of many children in the country, creating spaces for help and smiles of hope.
Article by:
Jackeline Gonzalez L.
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