February 10, 2021
Left: Joel seeing his artwork printed on a tote bag for the first time; Right: Children s Cancer Foundation social worker San San with Marianne (in stripes)
Courtesy of Marianne Lam, AsiaOne/ Kimberly Anne Lim Enjoy life is one of those expressions people love to throw around – often used in the same breath as Live life to the fullest and You only live once.
But those two simple words – featured front and centre on Joel Lim s artwork – now seem to carry a different weight.
Joel, 22, passed away in September 2020 after a 15-year battle with cancer. Now, Marianne Lam is trying to fulfil her son s final wish to raise funds for charity with his art.
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PM Modi flooded with pledges seeking urgent national policy for paediatric cancer
PM Modi flooded with pledges seeking urgent national policy for paediatric cancer
05 February 2021 | News Pledges have been collected online and through pledge books and pledge sheets from patient beneficiaries – parents and survivors, healthcare professionals- doctors, nurses, and workers, hospital administrations, Govt officials, politicians, celebrities, donors, NGOs, schools, colleges, media and civil society - that’s 300,000 people from all over India and overseas who have signed up and want childhood cancer to be a child & health priority in India.
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On the occasion of World Cancer Day, kids with cancer and their parents from across India are writing letters to the PM and urging for a national plan and policy for childhood cancer in India.