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LUNDU: 30 cancer survivors and nine medical staff attended this year’s Youth Camp, organised by Sarawak Children’s Cancer Society (SCCS) in collaboration with The Champions at the Union Yes Retreat, Lundu from July 21 to 23. SCCS is a non-profit society which provides relief and care for Malaysian children suffering from cancer and their families.
The SCCS fifth Youth Camp, themed ‘Take the Lead’, aimed at empowering childhood cancer survivors and focused on inspiring survivors to play an active role in becoming the leaders in their lives and to encourage them to face their fears. The camp is organised every year for childhood cancer survivors aged 14 to 24. Themes such as ‘Dare to Dream’, ‘Believe’ and ‘Keep Moving Forward’ from previous years, underlines the camp’s aim at building confidence, boosting morale and finding fulfilment in the cancer survivors’ lives.
This year’s camp embraced learning outside of their usual educational environments with games and activities in hopes of motivating the survivors to learn that every day that they are alive, they are already a miracle. One of SCCS’s priorities during this camp is to involve medical staff who work closely with childhood cancer patients from day to day, in the camp with the survivors.
This is done with the hopes that the medical staff will be reaffirmed in their purpose, as they face the daily emotional challenges of working with childhood cancer patients.
“Youth Camp has been a great experience, the games and activities are fun and I would love to come again the year after,” said Maneesha, a Youth Camp 2018 participant.
The talks and sessions were conducted with Ivan Evetovics, a passionate trainer and speaker, where he highlighted and embraced the tr iumphs and struggles of the survivors, to help them combat their fears and use their experiences as resources in taking the lead and making the most with their lives. For more information on the society, contact the SCCS Centre at 082-686276 or email to administrator@ sccs.org.my.
