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19/05/2014

Children, smiles and a trip to Menorca

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19/05/2014

VHIR collaborates whit the supportive project 'A child, a smile'

One Saturday morning in May was not any Saturday morning for the 25 children who are fighting against an oncology disease. It was during that morning when it was presented a supportive initiative through which, with the help of over 50 partner companies, all of them will spend a week in Menorca, between 4 and 10 of July. The children are patients of Dr. Josep Sánchez de Toledo, Head of the Oncology and Child Hematology Department and Head of the "http://www.vhir.org/larecerca/grupsrecerca/ca_grups_equip.asp?Idioma=en&mv1=2&mv2=1&mh1=2&mh2=1&mh3=1&mh4=0&ms=0&area=1&grup=20&menu=3" Group in Translational Research in Child Cancer at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR). "http://fgomo01.wix.com/unnen-unsomriure#!actividades-programadas/c13dq" 'A child, a smile' is the name of the initiative, led by Susana Ramos, an activist of the happiness of these children. Marc is a tall and intelligent boy. His speech perfectly expresses the feeling of all these boys and girls about of what they are going to live this summer. An opportunity to have a good time and to forget, for a few days, all the bad things they are going through. An opportunity to smile with their mates, to discover an incredible island and to charge batteries to keep fighting. Marc gives his speech in front of relatives and the companies and organizations that support this initiative, like VHIR. Marc and his 24 mates are the reason why VHIR do research, to improve people live, and what better to star with the children without their smiling we could not live, nor do research.Marc and his 24 mates sang Fabio Canu’s songs with the music of Frank Mercader that will accompany all of them during their trip to Menorca and the rest of their life. Saturday morning ended in Barcelona, at the headquarters of the employees of La Caixa, one of the supporters of the initiative, but now starts the countdown for the trip to Menorca, always with a smile.

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