São Paulo – The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce donated this Thursday morning (11) 500 color cloth face coverings for children and teenagers at child cancer treatment facility Itaci. Chamber director Claudia Yazigi Haddad and Marketing analyst Marina Machado made the delivery on behalf of the organization (pictured above).
The donation did not draw on funds from the Chamber’s ongoing crowdfunding campaign to help fight Covid-19. The coverings were donated by entrepreneurs Ana Racy, Maria Isabel Lati and Christiane Baeta on behalf of the Arab Chamber Women’s Committee.
According to Haddad, the Chamber will undertake other similar actions in the weeks ahead. “The Chamber wouldn’t want to keep its arms crossed in the face of this pandemic, and so there’s this philanthropic side that we are working on,” she said.
Located in Pinheiros, São Paulo, Itaci is a public hospital established via a partnership involving Fundação Criança, Ação Solidária Contra o Câncer Infantil (ASCCI) and the Children’s Institute at USP Medical School’s Hospital das Clínicas.
The coverings were accepted by Fundação Criança manager Douglas Boscato. The children and teenagers undergoing cancer treatment are more vulnerable to coronavirus. Fundação Criança provides comprehensive healthcare to kids, particularly in clinical and surgical pediatrics and hematology-oncology.
Itaci was established 18 years ago in a bid to provide more adequate facilities and new equipment for the treatment of patients formerly at Instituto da Criança. It has since become a go-to facility for children and teenagers with cancer and other rare or hematological conditions.
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Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
