#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth2023
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Patela Care Foundation commemorates Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2023 using Art Therapy and Music Therapy.

Patela Care Foundation, an award winning NGO, established to provide psycho social support to individuals diagnosed with cancer and their family care givers; and also internally displaced persons joins the global collaborative campaign in promoting childhood cancer awareness, advocacy and expressing support for children, adolescents, survivors and their family care givers.
In commemoration of 2023 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Patela Care Foundation commenced music therapy and art therapy, along with fun, entertainment and refreshments for children at the Paediatric Oncology wards, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

Our Executive Director, Dr Foluke Sarimiye (a Radiation and Clinical Oncologist/ Psycho Oncologist) explained that the music and art therapies help ameliorate emotional and psychological well-being of individuals and families passing through distress such as cancer diagnosis, enhance coping skills and improve quality of life.
She also explained that the feedback from the creative art therapy interventions are remarkable and Patela Care Foundation suggest the incorporation of these interventions into the holistic management of the patients in collaboration with the Pediatric oncology Team, UCH Ibadan.

Patela Care Foundation is inspired to keep enriching lives.