Every day, families arrive at GRAACC in search of something precious: The chance to overcome childhood cancer.
The GRAACC is a non-profit institution with the purpose of offering all chances of cure and quality of life to children and adolescents with cancer.
To this end, they built the hospital complex that is currently a world reference in treatment of high complexity cases.
Every year, about 420 new children arrive at GRAACC to begin their treatments, and each of them stays on average two years under the care of the hospital.
With an average cure rate of 80%, GRAACC is, for many families, a symbol of overcoming and hope.
At the Justice Institute (IJ), we believe that transforming realities begins by ensuring fundamental rights, such as access to health and dignified treatment.
It is with this perspective that we join GRAACC in a project that will provide more security to the work already carried out by the hospital:
The installation of a new nitrogen tank, responsible for storing the stem cells that make bone marrow transplants possible.
These transplants are a fundamental part of the treatment of various blood diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma, and represent a new chance at life for the children and adolescents served.
Stem cells need to be stored at very low temperatures, nearly -200 °C, ensuring that they are ready when the child needs to recover healthy blood production after chemotherapy.
The new tank has already been purchased and will soon be installed. For this, a structural renovation costing $1,200,000.00 is the goal of this fundraising campaign.
The beginning of the work is scheduled for the end of 2025 and will last approximately 120 days.
Since its inauguration in 1999, the GRAACC Bone Marrow Transplant Center has performed over 1000 procedures, including 94 in the year 2024 alone.
With the arrival of the new nitrogen tank, which holds up to 290 samples, the hospital will be able to double its storage capacity, and the number of transplants performed per year will be even greater.
Every donation matters.
Any contribution adds to the care and treatment.
With your help, hope can continue to live within each little patient and their families.
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