Model United Nations Oud-Beijerland 2024
Revolutionairy Research, KIKA
This year during MUNO, apart from developing a more nuanced worldview and exposing the delegates to the complexity and interconnectedness surrounding political issues, we also try to match a theme with this year’s charity, KiKa. And with them, we came up with the theme, Revolutionairy Research. KiKa is a well-known charity committed to helping children affected by cancer in the world. They do this work as they believe that according to their slogan: “Ieder kind kankervrij” or in English: “Every child cancerfree”. We ofcouse share this viewpoint and that is why we chose to support KiKa.
KiKa
A great step forward, but we are not there yet. 100% cure of childhood cancer, that is our goal. Because still 1 in 5 children do not survive. Through scientific research we discover more and more about childhood cancer and the survival rate of sick children increases. For this, every donation or action is more than welcome. Will you help?
The origin of KiKa
Let’s go back in time to the beginning of this century. Marketer Frits Hirschstein is friends with pediatric oncologist Rob Pieters. Rob figuratively throws a ball during indoor soccer. Can money be made available for research into childhood cancer? Because just like pediatric oncologist Huib Caron, he also sees so little progress in this area.
This gives Frits an idea. He quits his job as a marketer and starts working with Maarten Stoopendaal. In the conversations with oncologists Rob and Huib it becomes clear that the need for more research into childhood cancer is justified. The chance of recovery has been ‘stagnant’ for some time at around 70%. That can be better! Due to the large amount of available data on genes, a breakthrough must be possible. And the quality of treatments and the long-term effects are also clearly in need of improvement. Time to pull out all the stops.
Everyone is mobilized to help voluntarily and make the start of KiKa possible. Prof. Tom Voûte (pediatrician and professor of pediatric oncology) becomes chairman of the board and Inge de Bruijn says yes to the ambassadorship. And so the Children Cancer Free Foundation (KiKa) becomes a fact in 2002.
More information
If you want to know more about what KiKa does feel free to visit their website at KiKa.nl or by clicking on the image above. You can also scan the QR-code above to go to their page and make a donation.