A home for child cancer patients
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Home of hope: The Happy Hearts Home in Block 8, Gaborone PIC: FACEBOOK
Even though her case was better because when diagnosed with cancer she lived in Gaborone, Bontle Modige says she felt sorry for children who lived in remote rural areas, hundreds of kilometres away from the capital city. After receiving their chemotherapy or any kind of cancer medication, these children would have to travel long distances while medicated.
For those without parents or families residing in Gaborone, the road home to recovery was painful.
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