| Hope Takes Flight |  | This summer, a patient with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma contacted us for assistance. Mirna is a 23-year old survivor of Lymphoma. Both her parents are teachers. Their home is located in a small town several hours from the capital city of Guatemala. She urgently needed chemotherapy as well as access to technology not available in Guatemala, specifically a PET scan. Our advocates in Mexico and Guatemala sprang into action. ...
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| First Meeting with Volunteers in Pakistan |  | MaxStation Pakistan met with their core volunteer group and members of their patient group on March 25th, 2009 at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad. The meeting’s objective was to explore ways to support patients in need. Our local representative, Asher Ali, met with GIPAP physician Dr. Saleem Siddiqui, who appreciated the enthusiasm of volunteers and was delighted to host the meeting in his clinic. ...
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| Communication Access Program “Stay in Touch” in Russia |  | Cancer is always a devastating diagnosis to receive from your physician. When cancer touches a child, parents are ready to do anything in their power to help their son or daughter. In Russia, mothers must often leave families and accompany their child to a far away city or even a foreign country in order to access treatment. Supportive and caring to their little heroes, mothers are isolated and separated from their most important support system ...
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| Budding Journalists in the MaxIndia Office |  | All through these years at MaxIndia we have been trying to make the agenda of our meetings as different and varied as possible from the previous ones in the hope that these new experiences will help and benefit our patients and caregivers as well as us. In 2007 we had celebrated Max’s birthday in the company of some of the street children from Mumbai. For Max’s Birthday celebrations this year we had some children with special learning disabiliti ...
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