Project Report
| Jun 3, 2025
Comfort through compassionate care
By Darah Hansen | Communications Lead
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Pain relief is where palliative care teams excel, yet, in Nepal, access to this compassionate care remains limited. Each year, more than 200,000 people with life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, need palliative care services to ease their pain, often chronic and debilitating.
With pain relief comes a better quality of life and ensures the days remaining are the best they can be – whether in hospital, hospice or at home.
For Pubira (pictured), access to compassionate care made a world of difference. It’s a big part of why Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration continues to build capacity for locally led palliative care programs.
And it’s donors like you who drive the change needed.
From all of us at Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration – Thank you!
Feb 3, 2025
Bringing care and joy to a remote community
By Chuck Russell | Communications Lead
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Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration supports programs in Nepal that focus on palliative care for those facing a cancer diagnosis – women like Asha (R), sharing a smile with Radhika a palliative care nurse.
Palliative care is supportive care. It's care that can begin even before a diagnosis, helping ease pain symptoms. It's care that is not just medical care. It's care that supports individuals and their families emotionally through the trajectory of their illness.
Our palliative care education and mentorship programs support the training of doctors, nurses – like Radhika – and counsellors, providing them with the specialized skills to provide palliative care for patients like Asha in their homes.
It’s this compassionate care that you support through Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration. Your support provides pain relief and helps build healthcare capacity.
From all of us at Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration – Thank you!
Oct 7, 2024
Care can bring on a smile
By Chuck Russell | Communications Lead
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A little time and a smile from a healthcare provider can go a long way.
Palliative care is supportive care – and it can be as simple as a smile. Children need specialized care beyond pain relief or other medical care. Across the globe less than four percent of children who need it have access to palliative care.
Children often need an opportunity to share their feelings. Palliative care providers use play therapy and music therapy to help children. And this supportive care includes the child and other family members.
It’s this compassionate care that you support through Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration.
You are helping ease the suffering of many in Nepal in need of this essential care not just at end-of-life, but also through the trajectory of patients’ illnesses.
Thank you from all of us at Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration, our partner organizations, and the families they care for!