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It was a dream … a dream by a group of brave and devoted citizens. A dream that we have believed in and wished it to come true.

Dream of alleviating suffering and pain of innocent children from a ruthless killer called "Cancer".

Globally …

According to the “World Health Organization” in their global action against Cancer 2005 document, there are over 160,000 children globally diagnosed with cancer yearly, with 90,000 children dying yearly.  80% of these children live in developing countries.

Location: Egypt …

Egypt’s population between 0-19 years of age in 2005 was projected to be 43% of the total population of 74 million. According to the SEER report, the probability of cancer developing before the age of 20 years is 1 in 300. Therefore, approximately 8400 children are estimated to develop cancer in Egypt each year. 20% - 40% of these children will die due to lack of adequate treatment and facilities, as well as advanced technology.

In the meanwhile a dream was born with a pivotal question with no answer “Is it possible?”

The dream was to establish a state of the art specialized hospital for children with cancer that would provide high standards of medical care and would cure children for free by achieving high survival rates with only one main source of fund “Donations”.

A problem arose, how it could have the latest means of treatment and at the same time it would not take money from patients who would be treated. Moreover, how it would meet the expenses needed to treat those children!!!

This dream was completely based on charity goal, so it needed our help and our support.

And as their dream was our hope to see our children smile once again and play happily and joyfully, we profoundly believed in this dream and embraced it wholeheartedly.

The fundraising campaign started ….

“57357” was the name of the dream - and the name of the hospital.

It was very essential to have a unique and distinctive name. A name that people would instantly connect to being a worthy cause for them to support. This name was chosen because it was the hospital’s first bank account number. So,  whoever heard this name, would remember the dream and the responsibility they have to draw smiles on our children’s faces.

After choosing the name, the advertising campaign started in the Egyptian media to collect donations from the whole community -the rich and the poor  - organizations and individuals- to build the hospital with a target of opening date of December 2003.

However, the pivotal question remained without an answer … Is it possible?

The answer was very clear.

Yes, it is possible.

Believing in the dream was the answer.

Persistence and hard work were the answer.

Charity and self denial were the answer.

Drawing a smile on our kids’ faces was the answer.

We donated to make the dream comes true.

On July 7, 2007 the dream came to reality with the opening of the magnificent “Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt” (CCHE) "57357" and it was ready to accept and treat kids who suffer from cancer for free.

It accepted many children suffering from cancer and provided them with high standards of treatment and health care. Moreover, it provided care and attention to their families.

It was able to cure many children and make them able to live normally once again and to play and laugh as all the normal kids around them did.

Many of these children visited “57357” after their full recovery to show their gratitude to this hospital and support the patients and give them hope.

“57357” has succeeded in achieving high rates of curing children and it accepts patients from all over Egypt, Africa and the Middle East. Furthermore, they are treated for free, all thanks to people’s continuous donations.

This is not the end of the story … the story will continue as long as this hospital is working and as long as our donations continue to flow in generously.

We have a long way to walk together and a dream we will keep pursuing …

You also can dream with us and draw a smile on a kid’s face by contributing your own donation, no matter how small it may be.

https://www.57357.com/donation/

For more information about 57357:

57357

Egypt cancer network

Wikipedia

Special thanks to (rysperski, Mohamed"Amazigh", noaslpls and YA (μοναδικός))