As NdiMoyo joined the world in the campaign for raising international awareness of the work of children’s hospices and children’s palliative care (CPC) services worldwide.
What Is The Day About?
The day aims to raise funds for children’s palliative care, but more importantly, to raise awareness of the rights of very sick children with incurable and life-threatening illnesses to receive palliative care.
We know that there are in excess of 21 million children in the world who live with a life-limiting illness or condition that will or could drastically shorten their lives.
Sadly, just 1% of these children are accessing palliative care services. Services that do exist are mostly in the developed world. Those in the developing world are often underfunded and inadequate to meet the overwhelming need. As a result, millions of
children have a poor quality of life and suffer from pain and other distressing symptoms which could be controlled and significantly improved with palliative care.
