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CaixaBank has started a campaign to collect donations through the entity’s digital channels for the benefit of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), with the aim of helping to promote scientific research and help in the care of patients and their families .
The pandemic has exacerbated the care and assistance to cancer patients and has put a brake on research. For this reason, the entity chaired by Jordi Gual and directed by Gonzalo Gortázar has launched, in collaboration with the AECC, an information and awareness initiative on the situation, accompanied by the possibility of contributing through contributions destined for the AECC by the interested people.
The campaign begins this week, within the framework of the celebration of World Cancer Day today, February 4 and will run until February 15, coinciding with the celebration of the International Day of Childhood Cancer.
Donations can be made by bizum at 11244 through the CaixaBankNow app and imagin, as well as making donations through the entity’s corporate website, www.caixabank.es.
The initiative represents a new line of collaboration with the AECC, with whom the «la Caixa» Foundation already collaborates through its own programs such as care for people with advanced diseases, its calls for support for social projects and through financial contributions to the local branches that it channels through CaixaBank and its network of branches. Thanks to these formulas, in 2020 more than 50 delegations of support to patients and relatives in the fight against cancer have been helped throughout Spain, with a total contribution that exceeds 600,000 euros.
Mainly, these collaborations have served to support cancer patients with speech-pedagogical needs and psychosocial care for advanced patients in rural areas with a high population dispersion. At the same time, the collaboration has also focused on emergency plans due to the impact of COVID-19, adaptation of spaces for the sick and floors for accompanying family members.
At the same time, the «la Caixa» Foundation, through CaixaBank, has allocated around 750,000 euros through more than 150 donations to other entities focused on the fight against cancer.
In the Valencian Community, support has been given to the AECC and other social entities that also fight against cancer, such as the “Vicky’s Dream” Foundation, the Ronald McDonald Children’s Foundation (Valencia), ASPANION (in València and Alicante), Anémona Grupo of Self-help for Women with Breast Cancer (Benidorm), the Association of Women Affected by Breast Cancer of Aspe, Amunt against Cancer (Dénia), Solc Pel Suport i Ajuda en el Tractamen del Càncer (Alcoi) and the Local Association Against Cancer of Moncofa, among others, for a global amount of 121,100 euros, during the year 2020.
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