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The young string players of Highgate Junior School are hard at work practising their scales with two noble aims!

Firstly, we know that it can be hard to be motivated to practise scales as often as we all know we should, but when we put the time in, we reap huge rewards with our musical progress, musicality, and intonation!

Secondly, and even more importantly, we are raising money through our Scalathon for Highgate Junior School's chosen charity for this year, World Child Cancer. World Child Cancer (www.worldchildcancer.org) believes that every child with cancer, wherever they live in the world, should have equal access to the best possible treatment and care. They support ten programmes across Africa, Asia and Central America to develop and support high quality cancer care programmes for children. We in the Junior School passionately believe in this cause and we look forward to your generous support!

From World Child Cancer: "Childhood cancer, if detected early enough, can be cured. In developed countries, like the UK, as many as 80% of children survive compared to as few as 10% in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Over 6,000 children are expected to develop cancer in Bangladesh this year yet just a fraction of these will ever receive an accurate diagnosis. Even when a child does receive an accurate diagnosis, for many families access to treatment is out of reach due to the cost of care and enormous distances to hospital. Despite a lack of trained professionals, nurses are often undervalued and their skills wasted therefore preventing children from receiving the best standard of care possible. World Child Cancer is changing this. We believe every child with cancer, no matter where they are born, deserves equal access to the best possible treatment and care. By training more doctors and nurses, providing essential support to families and empowering nurses we will improve standards of care and, together with your support, will give children with cancer the Gift of Growing Up."

What your support could provide:

£5 could provide a week's worth of pain relief medication for a child with a life-limiting condition in Bangladesh

£10 could buy a welcome pack of basic supplies for a family coming to a cancer ward in Malawi

£50 could pay for a round of life-saving chemotherapy for a child in Ghana

£1000 could fund the ongoing treatment for over 50 children with cancer in Cameroon for a year!

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