How people fight against cancer through the Mimi Foundation..

The fight against cancer is also psychological and aesthetic. Mimi Foundation has understood and makes every effort to ensure that patients feel better. Emmanuelle béart, Francis Huster and undertake other stars.

When you are hospitalized or undergoing treatment is heavy, other concerns emerge: child care, lack of money, alone against the disease, fear of what other ... This is where Mimi Foundation. His credo is clear: "The gentle face of despair. Welfare cope with the pain. Another approach to the disease for the same purpose: treatment and heal."

Why Foundation Mimi?

Six years ago, Myriam Ullens learns she has cancer. And who says says cancer anxiety, pain, fatigue, heavy treatments ... A fight Myriam shared with other patients. But Miriam, who calls herself Mimi realizes that some patients do not have the chance to be surrounded, comforted, relieved ...

Therefore, once cured, Myriam decided to create her foundation to fight against cancer in all possible ways: taking care of yourself will preserve esteem, courage and strength to overcome the disease.

Mimi Foundation, founded in Belgium in 2004, offers a complement to the work already intensive medical teams. It is set within oncology services, a unit of "wellness." Lent courtesy of the local hospital are fully réaménagéspour create a soothing atmosphere and warm and sometimes forget a world of anxiety.

Three services are offered to patients: psychological support for the patient and his family, a workshop with a choice of hair wigs and scarves and using the financing of these accessories, beauty specific.

Everything is completely free. Everything is available to the patient is hospitalized or not. Each care team consists of professionals who all received special training to accompany the sick. It is fully integrated with the medical team.

Belgium, 9000 patients have benefited from the help of the Foundation Mimi. In France, the first unit opened in March 2010 at the Pitié Salpêtrière. And the stars are not immune: Danièle Thompson, Emmanuelle Béart, Claude Lelouch, Francis Huster and Patrick Bruel engage with Mimi Foundation. A poster campaign and a 30-second TV spot will also broadcast in France, with the slogan "Facing cancer, offer the sweetness."

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