2012 Expenses
May 6th
We have spent $83 196.15 so far this year. 72% of this is costs directly related to the children – their diagnostic tests and treatments ($ 60 124.80), 17% on Education and Early Detection workshops and the costs related to that and 11% on administration costs. The breakdown is as follows:
| ADMINISTRATION COSTS | 9 232.85 |
| EDUCATION & EARLY DETECTION | 13 838.50 |
| BLOOD & BLOOD PRODUCTS | 2 440.00 |
| CHEMOTHERAPY | 20 398.46 |
| FOOD SUPPLEMENTS | 312.78 |
| LABORATORY TESTS | 3 984.00 |
| HEART TESTS | 2 520.00 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | 880.00 |
| PRESCRIPTION DRUGS | 427.56 |
| SCANS | 25 525.00 |
| TRANSPORT COSTS | 3 637.00 |
| TOTAL EXPENSES FOR 2012 |
$ 83 196.15 |
Jenny Calderwood Memorial Run 2012
May 3rd
This year the Jenny Calderwood Memorial Run is being held at Peterhouse Boys. Registration is at 8.30, start at 9.10am on Sunday 13 May.
5 or 10km run / Walk, theme Orange, all proceeds to Kidzcan $5.00 adults, $2 scholars or teachers. Please come and join us for a fun filled day and help raise funds for Kidzcan.
Loss of a wonderful Supporter
Apr 7th
Kidzcan would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the Spanish Embassy on the tragic loss of the Ambassador. HE Pilar Fuertes Ferragut was an enthusiastic and dedicated supporter of Kidzcan and her commitment to the children will be sorely missed. Our time together during the Christmas hand out was very special to all the Children.
2012 Orange Day Fundraising
Apr 7th
Schools, Companies and individuals from all over Zimbabwe all joined together to commemorate World Children’s Cancer Day. Harare was definitely awash with orange. We have not only broken the record from last year, we have almost doubled it! THANK YOU everyone for your support of Kidzcan and your commitment to the children. Below is a breakdown of the money we have received for Orange day. We have raised an amazing $ 38 587.00 this year on Orange Day alone. THANK YOU!
| SCHOOLS: | ||
| NURSERY | ||
| Greystone Nursery School | $ 477.00 | |
| Harare Hebrew Nursery School | $ 110.00 | |
| Hellenic Nursery School | $ 5 122.00 | R 180.00 |
| Living Stones Nursery School | $ 150.00 | |
| Anonymous | $ 446.00 | |
| JUNIOR | ||
| Ariel | $ 900.00 | |
| Bishopslea | $ 392.00 | |
| Bryden School | $ 730.00 | |
| Chisipite Junior School | $ 1 361.00 | |
| Eaglesvale Junior School | $ 900.00 | |
| Gateway Primary School | $ 531.00 | |
| Hartmann House | $ 288.00 | |
| Hellenic Primary School | $ 1 580.00 | |
| Lilfordia School | $ 450.00 | |
| Midlands Christian School | $ 708.00 | |
| Mvurachena Primary School | $ 169.00 | |
| St John’s Preparatory School | $ 872.00 | R 30.00 |
| Sharon School | $ 229.00 | R 20.00 |
| Twin Rivers School | $ 560.00 | |
| Anonymous | $ 214.00 | |
| Senior Schools | ||
| Chisipite Senior School | $ 800.00 | |
| Falcon | $ 363.00 | R 462.00 |
| Hellenic Academy | $ 735.00 | |
| St George’s College | $ 2 500.00 | |
| St John’s College | $ 733.00 | |
| Combined Junior / Senior | ||
| Harare International School | $ 2 080.00 | R 340.00 |
| Corporates | ||
| BSI Steel | $ 1 000.00 | |
| Frampol | $ 800.00 | |
| Imara Group | $ 400.00 | |
| HRIB | $ 200.00 | |
| Anonymous | $356.00 | R 200.00 |
| INDIVIDUALS / OTHER |
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| BK Painters | $ 68.00 | |
| Curves | $ 435.00 | R 20.00 |
| Northside Community Church | $ 1 260.00 | |
| Rolf Valley Sport and Health | $ 530.00 | |
| Anonymous | 10 138.00 | R 23.20 |
| TOTAL ORANGE DAY INCOME | $38 587.00 |
R 1 275.20 |
Bandana’s
Apr 7th
Thousands of Zimbabweans joined Kidzcan in commemorating World Children’s Cancer day by wearing orange bandanas. The Celebration School and Harare International Schools both wore bandanas on 15 February along with many gyms, companies and individuals.
Hello Harare arranged the bandana’s for this year, encouraging all to buy a bandana and help to support Kidzcan, a big thank you to Hello Harare for their wonderful idea, 3 500 bandana’s were made and the large majority were snatched up during Orange Day. So far we have made $ 2 304.85. THANK YOU for your support.
The remainder of the Bandana’s will be available at the Jenny Calderwood Memorial Run / Walk at Peterhouse in May.
ORANGE DAY – 15 FEBRUARY 2012
Feb 16th
Please all remember World Children’s Cancer Day and join Kidzcan in commemorating this day by wearing ORANGE. Let us know what you doing – post a comment or send us a photo. We will add to this post as donations and stories come in so do keep an eye on this space. This is just a reminder of some of the pictures that came in last year for Orange Day where we raised $ 23 225.00. Come on everybody lets see what we can do this year!!
Christmas Box Handout
Feb 11th
On 20 December Steph from Medzim went with the Kidzcan Team and handed out their boxes to the children that were in the wards. We are now handing out the rest as the children come back into the wards for follow up treatments after Christmas. This is being done on a Tuesday and a Thursday until they all have the gift that Medzim so generously sorted out. It has been wonderful to see the excitement on the faces of the children, coming back for their treatments and receiving a gift.
SORRY ALL!! This was supposed to go us on the site in early January, We are still struggling to upload pictures and we did not publish it as there were no pictures but we still cannot add pictures so are just going to put the article on the site anyway. PLEASE LOOK ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE TO SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Medzim Christmas Box Project
Jan 30th
During November last year MedZim embarked on a fundraising project – the “Kidzcan Christmas Project” to give each Kidzcan Champion a special Christmas Box this Christmas. From a cake sale, bucket collecting in “Jesters” and a fantastic effort from the committee members in the UK. They managed to raise enough money to give 170 children a Christmas Box. An incredibly kind donation from two sponsors in Zimbabwe was donated, so that the remaining 112 boxes were covered and every child that Kidzcan supports received a Christmas Box for Christmas. All 282 Kidzcan Champions also received an extra little gift brought over from the UK. A huge thank-you to MPS especially for kindly donating 75 plastic juice bottles to children aged between 11-18 years old. Those under 11 years old received a Beatrix Potter storybook, a teddy bear or a racing car toy.
On behalf of MedZim we would like to thank all those who supported this project, your support means so much to us and will mean so much to all these children that you’ve helped make their Christmas even more special. All the boxes were packed on 17 December and we gave boxes to those who were in the hospital on 20th, fortunately for the children many had been sent home for Christmas. We continue to give the gifts to the children as they come back in for their follow-up treatments. Thank You to all who contributed to this wonderful project, it certainly made a difference to the children. This Christmas was a very special one.
Summary of Assistance 2011
Jan 22nd
During 2011 we saw a total of 363 patients, 222 were confirm to have cancer and were treated, a further 105 are still undergoing investigations, 19 were investigated and no cancer was detected, 15 were treated for blood disorders and the final 2 unfortunately passed away before the tests were completed.
Below is a graph of the number of children and types of cancers we saw during 2011.
We did the following procedures each month.
Income and Expenditure
Jan 22nd
Below is a graph showing the income and expenses for the year January to December 2011. We received a total of $ 208 267.46 – this includes the amount available through Friends of Kidzcan Zimbabwe and all corporate sponsorship, donations, fundraising and projects as well as interest on investment. We spent a total of $ 175 460.17, this includes the administration costs as well as the costs for the children. This leaves us with $ 32 807.29 to add to our development fund.
- $ 6 000.00
