With the help of volunteers, friends and sponsors, the Association:

  • Fulfills the wishes of children with cancer.
  • Supports financially the children who are hospitalized in the haematology/oncology hospitals of Cyprus and those who go abroad for examinations, treatments or transplants while supporting their families in various ways.
  • Covers rehabilitation costs (physiotherapy, speech therapy, etc.).
  • Offers psychological support from an experienced psychologist to the child and their family at the Makarios Hospital or at the Association’s office.
  • Helps and supports the children and their families who are fighting their own battle against cancer until the day they become victorious.
  • Provides excursions and trips to Cyprus and abroad for the children’s entertainment while taking part in camping programs.
  • Offers cake, savouries, drinks and gift cards to the children who are hospitalized on their birthday.
  • Offers various snacks to the families in the Pediatric Oncology Ward of the Makarios Hospital.
  • Buys wigs to the children who need them.
  • Purchases portal vests for the children’s Hickman treatments.
  • Offers a gift card to children who are getting married.
  • Secures scholarships for free tuition at private universities in Cyprus.
  • Offers a study grant to each child of the Association, depending on the university and country.
  • Vaccinates children, as part of the campaign for protection against cervical cancer, in cooperation with the Cyprus Paediatric Society, whose members undertake the vaccination voluntarily.
  • Covers the funeral expenses of children who sadly lose their battle with cancer.
  • Presents its work on radio and television programmes to inform the public and to highlight the problems faced by suffering children and their families.
  • Organizes and co-organizes many events with a dual purpose: The promotion of the Association’s purpoe and the financial support of the volunteer’s charity work
  • Purchases paper protectors for the serving trays at Makarios Hospital and Nicosia General Hospital.
  • Funded, together with the Bank of Cyprus, the construction of the new building of the Karaiskakio Foundation, since most of our children with haematological malignancies are helped to find a bone marrow donor.
  • Funded the Karaiskakio Foundation to create a special laboratory, named after the Association, “One Dream One Wish” to offer specialized services (NGS-next generation sequences) to help in the hematology field, pediatric oncology issues and pediatric genetics (for children with hereditary cancer syndromes).
  • Purchased a laboratory machine, a next-generation cytogenomics analyser with optical genome mapping (Bionano Saphyr), which will enhance efforts in the fight against childhood cancer.
  • Maintaining a room at the Palliative Care Center “Arodafnousa”, by covering its annual operating expenses.
  • Purchased modern beds, monitoring devices and capnographs for the needs of the Children’s Intensive Care Unit at Makarios Hospital.
  • Purchased equipment for a new Operating Room at Makarios Hospital.
  • Purchased a stainless steel trolley trolley for the sterilization department of the Makarios Hospital.
  • Purchased television sets for the entertainment of the children in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit of Makarios Hospital.

Remember that:

  • Childhood cancer can be cured.
  • Cancer is not contagious.
  • Cancer does not mean death. Although it is a serious, life-threatening disease, it requires time and appropriate, specialized treatment.
  • For childhood cancer, there is no prevention, but proper evaluation of suspected symptoms and findings that can lead to early diagnosis. Therefore, special attention must be paid to the training of doctors so that they are able to diagnose cancer early, inform parents, and refer to special centres abroad for further knowledge.
  • Children are much less likely to contract cancer than adults, although cancer remains the most common cause of death in children after accidents.
  • The road from diagnosis to recovery is an important, special part of a child’s life, their own adventure, their own experience, their own feelings.

That’s why:

The Association assures to accompany parents and children throughout their cancer journey, from diagnosis to recovery and beyond, keeping their morale, faith, hope and above all their smiles unquenched.

The “One Dream One Wish” Association becomes the link between old and new cases, with our monthly meetings, with our excursions and trips that take place in Cyprus and abroad…Together parents and volunteers grow the chain of love!!! We support each other, we get strength and help the child to get proper medical and psychological care.

And we, the volunteers of the Association “One Dream One Wish”, according to the lyrics of Nikos Kazantzakis:

  You have the brushes, you have the colors, paint the paradise and get in…

  We will continue to paint each child’s paradise… until they are fully healed, back home, in their own paradise !!!

We will continue to keep the stars bright, fulfilling the wishes of children, lighting up their little faces with smiles, and their little hearts with joy.

We will continue to be their Companions !!!

We will continue to spread our love and offerings daily!!!!