Connecting Champions with Childhood Cancer Ireland brings young people who have or had cancer together with a mentor or ‘hero’ who shares their interests and passions. The programme is designed to offer encouragement, inspiration and a positive distraction during or after cancer treatment. Rather than focusing on illness, Connecting Champions focuses on what matters to each young person – their interests, creativity, goals, and sense of identity.
Connecting Champions is a one-to-one mentoring and connection programme. Young people are matched with a mentor from a field they are passionate about. This could be sport, music, art, make-up and beauty or other areas that inspire them.
Mentors may range from sporting personalities and artists to musicians, make-up artists or professionals with lived experience and enthusiasm for their field.
Connections take place online, making the programme accessible no matter where a young person lives or what stage of treatment or recovery they are in. And a member of Childhood Cancer Ireland staff will always be on the call too.
through shared interests and creative conversation
beyond clinical settings
to explore their passions
"By meeting someone who shares what they love, young people are reminded that they are more than their diagnosis."
