Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives of We Are TLM

Vision:

All children with cancer in Tanzania have easy access to locally based high quality curative and palliative treatment leading to survival outcomes similar to resource rich settings.

Mission:

Working within the National health frame work in Tanzania, provide continuing medical education for local professionals, implement programmes to deliver top quality care, both medical and psychosocial, and extending out-reach until all children with cancer in Tanzania have been reached.

Goals:

All children living in Tanzania who develop cancer are diagnosed in a timely fashion to enable treatment with curative intent and have appropriate access to good quality paediatric oncology services.

Objectives:

• A national paediatric oncology network made up of 6 hospitals – MNH, KCMC, BMC, DMC, Mbeya, Kigoma all using standardised protocols, SOP’s, with centralised access to specialist services – including hi-tech diagnostics. 

• A national higher/continuing education programme for both paediatric sub-specialty oncology nurses and doctors and laboratory scientist skills.

• A strong and countrywide outreach, awareness and early cancer detection programme

• Affordable and reliable chemotherapy and supportive care medications supply line

• An active psychosocial support structure at each medical centre

• A rapid referral and transport structure

• An evidenced based national nutrition programme for children with cancer

• A strong collaborative network of all National and International partners working in the field of children’s cancer in Tanzania

• A locally appropriate national and individual hospital based data base

•  An effective national and international fundraising platform to provide all these services free of charge to all children and their families.

• TLM to become a leader in this collaborative approach