A wonderful occasion to give children moments of joy. By financing art and music therapy, we would like to support children with cancer in coping with their illness and give them small breaks from everyday hospital life.
Because Christmas time should be a wonderful time full of happy moments for all children.
The support association has been financing an art therapist since 1989. She works closely with the medical, nursing and socio-psychological team. With a material cart full of paints, papers and modelling compounds, she visits the children in the cancer wards. For many, the creative activity helps them to deal with their illness, their feelings, wishes and fears. Painting and designing is fun, touching and calming, enlivening and awakens curiosity and imagination.
More information about the therapies and the Association to Support Children with Cancer in Tübingen e.V..
Like our art therapist, our music therapist works closely with the medical, nursing and socio-psychological team. Equipped with various instruments, he can visit the children with cancer being treated as inpatients at their beds or in the shared playroom and make music and sing freely with them. In the enormously stressful situation, both physically and psychologically, in which a child with cancer finds himself, music therapy can give the children a moment's break from everyday hospital life, awaken the joy of life, provide distraction, but also comfort, calm or help to deal with their own illness. Above all, however, it should be fun and become a positive experience in the extremely stressful situation and the often grey everyday hospital life.