By Simon Sutcliffe | President Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration
Dear Project Supporters,
2020 has been a difficult year for everyone - uncertainty, social disruption, changes to our work and social routines, and for many, financial distress.
But, because of the support of generous donors, Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration has been able to continue with it’s Project ECHO – an online, virtual educational model that connects community-level health care providers with volunteer Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration specialists.
ECHO has been particularly effective in South Asia, since it emphasizes moving knowledge not people, and having the training Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration provides reach healthcare professionals where they are, instead of requiring them or their patients the cost and inconvenience of long journeys to specialist centres to receive training or care.
Because of donor support during the pandemic, we have held successful ECHO sessions for multiple different learners across different groups of learners across South Asia (India and Nepal), and for humanitarian health workers addressing palliative care support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
For those facing life-limiting illness in the lesser-resourced world, often in pain, distressed, stigmatized and alone, the holiday season offers little to celebrate, and, with the added burden of the pandemic, much to grieve. Even though our personal celebrations are more constrained this year, let our motivation to support those less fortunate, continue to grow in the future.
"Shining Some Light” can bring comfort, dignity and inspiration to us all.
With appreciation
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