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Personal story

purpose-driven problem solving

Karin in the WCK office, smiling at a volunteer.

Karin Alleyne is a remarkable person. As she moves on from her role at WCK to do more incredible things, the story of what she has done for the food…

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Grateful for the Path…Fully Completely

Mina with her family, standing in a sunny spot and smiling for the camera.

WCK Board Member Mina Bullard describes how her favourite band forged a connection to childhood cancer that would change her life. Back in 1998, I was watching a TV special…

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Fuel for a journey that no one plans for

Kristen and her family standing outside their house smiling at the camera.

Kristen recalls her family’s very first WCK meal, and what the provision of food has meant to them through their cancer journey. It was the very first night we checked…

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“Thanks, my oncologist does my hair”

Going bald Julia Dawson

Resources, responses, and realities of going bald as a young person   By Julia Dawson My name is Julia, and I’ve been bald twice! I was first diagnosed with leukemia…

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WCK and my family is a love story set over many a butter chicken

Joyce Wijnhorst Story Blog

By Joyce Wijnhorst I first started treatment at BC Children’s after getting my diagnosis in fall 2020, after months of misdiagnosis and extreme pain in my left leg. In a…

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“WCK families are WCK families for life.”

WCK Family for Life

One family’s childhood cancer story of love, loss, and making lemonade from lemons. By Sharon Bulger Our childhood cancer journey began on January 18, 2018, when our then six-year-old son,…

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West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation works on the lands of Indigenous nations throughout colonial British Columbia. Our office is located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

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