Cancer awareness month

Sir,

Throughout September, for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity, Young Lives vs Cancer, will be helping children with cancer have their voices heard.

Having cancer when you’re a child is scary, lonely, relentless and painful. Over the past year our children have missed out on so much.

But for many children with cancer they are still swapping classrooms for chemotherapy, still waving at family members through windows. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month we want everyone to see children with cancer for who they are and who they want to be.

We would love to see the community come together to help young people with cancer in Arran, and there are lots of ways to get involved – like purchasing a Young Lives vs Cancer gold ribbon pin badge, available at Morrisons stores, or ordering one online.

Community efforts mean Young Lives vs Cancer can be there for the children and young people in Arran with cancer, keeping families together by providing Home from Homes near hospitals and financial grants for support.

You can find more information or a donation or shop online at younglivesvscancer.org. uk #MoreThanMyCancer

Yours,

Carol Jones,

Fundraising manager at Young Lives vs Cancer, south and west Scotland.