Support for the Children's Story "The Mother is Bald"
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Support for the Children's Story "The Mother is Bald"

"The mother is bald" is a carefully written, illustrated and freely paginated children's story that aims to demystify the experience of hair loss due to chemotherapy treatments ...

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    37% of 3 000€

    51 backers

  • 27/09/2024

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    This project was unable to raise the required funds

"The mother is bald" is a carefully written, illustrated and freely paginated children's story that aims to demystify the experience of hair loss due to chemotherapy treatments and its effect on the family.

Conto Infantil

Escritora do Livro - Inês Castro

Ilustrações do livro - Beatriz Barbosa

 

Imagine the journey of a child who, upon discovering his mother’s illness, sees his world change. Every day, between fear and hope, Bernardo recounts the impact of cancer on his family life, revealing that the power of love always overcomes pain, in a huge testimony of courage and resilience. Support our campaign to spread this message of hope to more people and help other families facing the same challenge. Together, we can make a difference.


[YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/M056QRzijho?si=aduJI_QwjGDp04bd ]

About the author

Presidente e Vice-Presidente da TÉA

"Testemunhar é Ajudar – Núcleo de Apoio ao Centro de Mama do Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João" is a non-profit association, founded by three oncology patients (breast cancer) that aims to provide support to cancer patients, family members and friends from the moment cancer is diagnosed.
It is also our purpose to raise funds to support the Breast Center at Hospital de São João, contributing to research and advanced treatments for breast cancer.

Budget and due dates

Presentation to Associates and the Maiata community on September 28th at 6 pm at Forum Maia, in the Grand Auditorium, where the Children's Story will be presented.

500 COPIES. Costs for the book in 21x21 format, with 40 pages. Cover placed on the spine in 300g Turner paper.
Core in 120g Rembrandt paper. (3000€)

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    TÉA mascot

    1 Mascot of the Association made by the volunteers, it is a sardine because it is associated with Hospital São João.

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    8 backers

    Limited to 30 units. 22 remaining

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    Tote Bag - Witnessing is Helping (Shipping PT/Foreign Shipping)

    1 Tote Bag with original illustration by the Association.

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    3 backers

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    32 backers

Sat, 05/10/2024 - 10:49

Fri, 04/10/2024 - 15:36

Payout completed

The raised funds have been transferred to the campaign owner

27/09/2024

Campaign ended

The campaign failed to raise the total amount

Tue, 27/08/2024 - 13:09

We're now 20

We reached the first 20 backers. Let's keep up!

Mon, 26/08/2024 - 21:04

First five backers

We've gathered the first 5 backers. Hurray!

Campaign launched

26/08/2024

51 members of the PPL community
support this campaign

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  • 11
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  • 10
    anonymous backers

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