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Cancer doesn't care it's Christmas

8 Oct, 2017

Cancer doesn't care it's Christmas

Every year, CanTeen holds an Art Workshop that brings young people living with cancer from all over New Zealand to help us design cards that will raise funds and awareness.

In partnership with St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, who run the workshop for us, our members have created some beautiful Christmas cards inspired by their cancer journeys and what Christmas means to them.

Thanks to these members sharing not only their artistic talents, but their stories too, we’re able to raise the funds needed to support them and their peers throughout the year, even when it’s Christmas—because cancer doesn’t care.

Meet the designers below.

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