Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust (BTMAT)
The Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust (BTMAT) is a U.K – based charity founded at the dawn of the 21st century by Dr. Peter McCormick. It obtained U.K Charity status in 2006. Dr. Peter McCormick had worked as a volunteer children’s physician in Cameroon for several years where he had seen children with Burkitt lymphoma and swallowed the bitter pill of watching them through their demise with little or no hope for a cure. It was this experience that caused Dr. Peter McCormick to form the BTMAT, named after his late sister whom he had lost to cancer.
Northwest Childhood Cancer Parents Organization in Cameroon
The Northwest Childhood Cancer Parents Organization in Cameroon (NWCCPOC) is a registered childhood cancer association which was born in 2011. NWCCPOC brings together several rural groups of childhood cancer parents and survivors who work together to support one another psychosocially.
The NWCCPOC and its constituent group work relentlessly to spread childhood cancer awareness in communities, identifying and referring suspected patients to treatment centers. They also carryout fund raising projects like pig breeding, poultry farming and maize farming to support hospitalized childhood cancer patients and their families. NWCCPOC has worked closely with the CBCHS childhood cancer program in International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) celebrations and several awareness creation and fundraising activities.
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town
Our Partnership with Stellenbosch University, Cape Town started in 2005, when the Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust (BTMAT) contacted Prof. Peter Hesseling, an experienced pediatric oncologist from Tygerberg childrens hospital. Prof. Hesseling accepted BTMATs invitation to join the CBCHS childhood cancer program and became a volunteer physician with the CBCHS as the medical director for the program. A memorandum of understanding was established between the CBCHS and Stellenbosch University to build pediatric oncology capacity in Cameroon.
World Child Cancer
World Child Cancer (WCC) is a global charity organization founded in 2007 with its headquarters in London Burdened by the disparities in survival rates of children with cancer between developed countries and developing countries, WCC has a mission “to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment and care for children across the developing world. It now funds projects in several countries across Africa, Central America, and Asia.
WCCs support for the CBCHS childhood cancer program began in 2012. Since then, WCC has funded activities related to public and professional awareness, diagnosis, curative, supportive and palliative care and survivorship, as well as staff training and retention.