Update: Donate a flower

23 January 2024

It has been a while since we started our campaign for patients of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. High time to update you on the progress. We can report that over 350 flowers have already been donated in the meantime. This results in more than 100 larger flower sets! We will take these to the hospital on Sunday 4 February (World Cancer Day) and hand them over.

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We are extremely proud and grateful that you have donated so massively. Together we can brighten up the hospital stay for many patients anyway. Donating is still possible until 31 January.

About the action

Erasmus MC's haematology department houses patients with benign and malignant diseases of blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes. These patients have low resistance and can get inflammations quickly. This is why they are not allowed to have flowers in their rooms. Unfortunately, these patients are sometimes in hospital for a very long time. Often it is not just about chemotherapy or radiotherapy, but also transplants. We would like to offer these patients something extra. LEGO® flowers are a nice alternative to brighten up the room a little during the hospital stay. By assembling the LEGO® set yourself, the patient is distracted from being ill for a while. It can also be a nice topic of conversation with visitors. The flower can be taken home upon discharge from hospital. Together with ToyPro's customers, we want to donate these flower sets. As a customer, you can donate a flower polybag in the shopping basket at checkout. For every 3 polybags donated, ToyPro will ensure that a larger flower set is donated. This way, we can all make the hospital stay a little more pleasant and colourful.

About World Cancer Day

World Cancer Day, organised by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), is a fairly new holiday that aims to raise awareness of the ancient disease of our time. The day began in 2000 at the World Cancer Summit in Paris and was formally adopted by what is called the Paris Charter. The Charter was established with many goals, including promoting research into cancer prevention and cure, as well as raising awareness and bringing about changes in patient services. The founders knew that more awareness and information would mobilise the global community to help fight cancer - in the spirit of this Charter, World Cancer Day was created.

The event focuses mainly on the power of collective action and the need to ensure equal access to medical care, including diagnosis and treatment. While it is understandable to feel overwhelmed by cancer, World Cancer Day is about taking positive action, making it a day of inspiration and hope.

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