AfeCáncer
We offer you our help, Know us ...
The Association of Relatives and Patients with Cancer of Torrevieja (AFECÁNCER), is an entity formed by people who have had a direct relationship with the cancer disease and who wish to invest their effort in helping, altruistically, those people who currently suffer from it. .
We function as a block that tries to protect and promote the rights of people with cancer, trying to undertake all those actions aimed at increasing their well-being and quality of life.
We function as a block that tries to protect and promote the rights of people with cancer, trying to undertake all those actions aimed at increasing their well-being and quality of life.
About us
AFECÁNCER is an independent non-profit association whose purpose is to defend the rights of people with cancer and their families, and to provide the necessary means to improve their quality of life. As priority activities are the information, social awareness, demand and provision of services and programs necessary to achieve their goals.
Our mission
It is to become a leading entity in the Torrevieja Health Area as a defender of the rights of people with oncological diseases and their families, and as a manager of care services for them, concentrating all our effort on improving the conditions of life of these people.
Integral Attention Service
◦ Orientation and Support
the cancer patient.
◦ Psycho-oncological care
individual
◦ Psycho-oncological care
in a group.
◦ Attention Service
Domiciliary.
◦ Nutrition Service and
Health.
◦ Leisure Program and
Free time.
◦ Legal advice and
legal.
◦ Integration Workshops
Labor.
Support for Relatives
◦ Family School.
◦ Individual psychotherapy
for relatives.
◦ Group psychotherapy
mourning and losses.
◦ Accompaniment.
◦ De-smoking service
smoking.
Social helps
◦ Financial aid to
sick and relatives in
risk of social exclusion.
Prevention and Information
◦ Outreach programs
sensitization.
◦ De-smoking service
smoking.
◦ Education service for
health.
◦ Advisory service and
early detection.
◦ Financial aid to
Research through
PHYSABIO.
Volunteer Service
◦ Home care:
Social and emotional support to families with terminally ill patients.
◦ Hospital care:
Flexible volunteering, designed to deal with special cases of people with insufficient family support or without knowledge of the Spanish language (bilingual volunteers).
◦ Management, administration of the Association and events:
All people who help us free of charge in administrative, service, fundraising and governing bodies.
Values
goals
Purpose
Efficiency:
100% of each euro that is donated to us is used directly in cancer care programs and in the prevention and early detection of the disease.
Solidarity:
Serving as a link and organizational framework between those who want to help and those who need help.
Equality:
That all people with cancer are equally cared for by our entity, regardless of their nationality, creed, race or legal situation in Spain.
Professionalism:
We are a team of professionals trained in the different
areas of intervention and committed to the same purpose.
We work as a team from a multidisciplinary perspective, to provide quality service to the users of our programs.
Goals:
• Claim before the Public Administration the necessary means to achieve comprehensive care in the different treatments, the improvement of existing services and the fulfillment of the rights of patients and family members.
• Defend the fulfillment of the rights of the sick and relatives before the competent authorities.
• Undertake social awareness actions that promote knowledge of oncological diseases and their prevention.
• Collaborate in the management of resources and the creation of programs for health and social support that improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
• Give a free public service for counseling, counseling and psychosocial support.
Transparency:
We commit ourselves to systematically carry out external audits of accounts and to publish external reports on transparency and good practices.
Democracy:
The Board of Directors made up of AFECÁNCER's members in the General Assembly, is in charge of electing the management team responsible for the management of the entity.
"When I was diagnosed with the disease, I felt lost, I did not know what to do what would happen ... it was all fear and uncertainty. For my Afecáncer it has been essential throughout the disease process. Thanks to the whole team."
Mireia Sánchez, San Miguel de Salinas.
"We have collaborated with Afecáncer as volunteers for 2 years and we feel like a great family in which we take care of each other and that for those of us who are not from here is a gift."
Paco y Ana, Torrevieja
