OkapiCCF To Hold 9th Annual Childhood Cancer Awareness Walk In Abuja

The Okapi Children Cancer Foundation (OkapiCCF) has announced plans for its 9th Annual Childhood Cancer Awareness Walk, scheduled to instrumentality spot connected Saturday, September 20, 2025, astatine Jabi Lake Mall, Abuja.

Themed “Hope successful Every Step for Children Fighting Cancer,” this year’s locomotion is designed to item resilience, compassion, and the relation of corporate assemblage enactment successful supporting children battling crab and their families.

“Childhood crab remains a important nationalist wellness situation successful Nigeria and beyond, with devastating effects connected families, friends, and communities,” said Kemi Adekanye, Chief Volunteer of OkapiCCF, successful a statement.

“Every measurement taken during this locomotion represents our pledge to basal successful solidarity with these children, honouring their courage, and raising consciousness to thrust aboriginal detection, amended entree to treatment, and improved outcomes,” Adekanye wrote.

The lawsuit volition diagnostic escaped bosom crab and imaginativeness screenings, different wellness checks, inspiring subsister stories, music, entertainment, family-friendly activities, and acquisition sessions connected puerility crab and its aboriginal signs. It volition besides supply networking opportunities for individuals, organisations, and advocates.

Organisers are extending an unfastened invitation to families, individuals, schools, businesses, firm bodies, religion groups, and organisations to participate. For those incapable to be successful person, OkapiCCF has encouraged virtual participation.

“This locomotion is much than a fittingness activity; it is simply a question of unity, compassion, and hope,” Adekanye emphasized. “Together, we tin marque beingness much bearable for children warring crab and punctual them they are not alone,” the connection read.

Interested participants tin registry for the locomotion and bid exclusive locomotion kits online via www.okapiccf.com.

Founded arsenic a non-profit organisation, OkapiCCF works to amended the lives of children battling crab successful Nigeria done advocacy, consciousness campaigns, and fundraising. The instauration supports aesculapian attraction portion besides providing emotional, social, and indispensable attraction to young patients and their families.