About Us - Gaspé Cancer Foundation

Our two-part mission statement

Our Mission

To provide financial aid to individuals afflicted with cancer who need to travel outside our region for treatment.
To act as a bilingual information center for our region.

Our long-term vision statement

Our Vision

The Gaspé Cancer Foundation would like to have an active support team in place that would be able to offer encouragement and emotional support to individuals battling cancer, as well as provide them with needed information.

The Gaspé Cancer Foundation was a guiding light during one of the hardest times of my life. Their care, compassion, and dedication gave me strength and hope when I needed it most.

Nancy Briand

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MEMBERS

385000

DONATIONS RECEIVED

124

VOLUNTEERS

10896

HOURS VOLUNTEERED

255

MEMBERS HELPED

274006

$ DOLLARS GIVEN

Real Impact.

SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 2003

We provide members with resources, inspiration and power to fight against and limit the power of cancer.

We do so, because while cancer is very powerful in many ways, it is also very limited. For example, here are a few of the things cancer cannot do:

It cannot cripple love,
It cannot shatter hope,
It cannot weaken faith,
It cannot destroy peace,
It cannot end friendship,
It cannot suppress memories,
It cannot silence courage,
It cannot invade the soul,
It cannot steal eternal life, and
It cannot conquer the spirit.

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The story of our founding

Our History

The Gaspé Cancer Foundation was a result of Noreen Hackett’s dream after she attended a women’s symposium where she learned of the Linda LeMore-Brown Foundation.

This organization was formed to help meet the financial needs of cancer patients in the Bonaventure district and Noreen saw a similar need in the Gaspé area.

As a result, the Gaspé Cancer Foundation was formed in July 2003 and received its charter as a charitable organization at that time.

Our mandate is to be a 100% non-profit organization run solely by volunteers who serve the residents from Grand Valley to Corner-of-the-Beach, including Murdochville.

The Foundation acts as a bilingual information center and provides financial aid to individuals afflicted with cancer who have to travel to Chandler, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec City, Montreal and Sherbrooke for their treatments.

We are not to be confused with l’Association du cancer de l’Est du Québec and the Canadian Cancer Society.