CCI Education Day: Learning from each other and shaping what comes next
The CCI Annual Conference began with a day dedicated to our members — an opportunity to come together, share experiences and take a closer look at the work of CCI and the priorities that will shape our next steps.
One of the things that makes CCI such a unique global community is the knowledge and experience that our members bring from their own regions. During Education Day, representatives from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania shared updates from their regions and regional committees.
These updates are an important reminder of the incredible work our member organisations are doing every day — often in very different circumstances and with very different challenges. Their commitment, creativity and persistence continue to strengthen the wider CCI community, and we are grateful for everything they contribute.
The day also gave us the opportunity to share more about CCI’s strategies, projects and programmes, including the launch of Home Away From Home 3.0, developed together with the Sanofi Foundation. It was a chance for members to better understand the support and opportunities available through CCI, and to see how different parts of our work connect.
We also held a CCI Strategic Planning Workshop, because our strategy cannot be developed in isolation. We rely on our member organisations to tell us what is working, what is needed and where they believe CCI should focus its efforts. The discussion brought many new ideas and perspectives to the table and will help enrich our thinking as we continue developing CCI’s future direction.
Our afternoon continued with a practical Nutrition in Childhood Cancer Care workshop, delivered by Cuddles Foundation, CCI’s partner in the Global Nutrition Trainings. The session provided an opportunity for members to explore practical approaches to nutrition support and learn from the experience and expertise of colleagues working in this area.
We closed the day with “Global Voices in Survivorship: Challenges and Collective Solutions” — an invigorating discussion about one of the challenges many organisations face: how to better engage and activate survivors and create meaningful opportunities for their voices to shape our work. Bringing together survivors, parents and patient representatives from different countries helped put some of these challenges into perspective and opened up a valuable conversation about how we can approach them more effectively.
But perhaps the most valuable part of Education Day was simply having our members together in one room — sharing what they are doing, learning from one another and reminding us why a strong, connected global membership matters.
CCI is its members. Their knowledge, experience and ideas are what help shape the organisation and strengthen our collective work for children and families affected by childhood cancer.
And San Antonio gave us plenty of new ideas to take forward.
