Empowering cancer survivor as patient support group
We are the only childhood cancer survivor group that focused in supporting cancer patients and their families.
About You
About You
First Name
Ridwansyah Yusuf
Last Name
Achmad
Twitter URL
Facebook URL
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Cancer Buster Community
Organization Website
Organization Country
Indonesia, JK
Country where this project is creating social impact
Indonesia, XX
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
2012 - Ashoka Young Changemakers - Indonesia
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Priesnanda Dwisatria
A professional photographer and cameraman who has produce many prominent photo and film in Indonesia, one of them is the famous Catatan si Boy. He is one of the founder of Cancer Buster Community and our Chairperson.
E : priesnanda@gmail.com
T : +62 811 882429
Ridwansyah Yusuf Achmad
A graduate student from one of the best Indonesia's University who were survived from leukemia on 1999. Today, he is both entrepreneurs and community developer in West Java Province, Indonesia
E : ridwansyahyusuf@gmail.com
T : +62-85720080050
Natarini Setianingsih
A Leukemia Survivor who work in Indonesian Cancer Journal at the National Cancer Center. She is one of the founder of cancer buster community and dedicated her life for childhood cancer patients.
E : nata.rini@gmail.com
T : +62 817 6389956
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Today, Indonesia experience a vast increase in childhood cancer patients, with approximately 11.000 new case every year.
Most of the patients were from remote area with low level of economic. it makes them have very little information about cancer.
Even if they know it, many of them is negative information that -most of them- are incorrect and make the patients and their families did not pursue the medical treatment. Even though, they are commit to attempt the medical treatment, it can not be denied that the medical cost is very expensive. In this situation, many of patients become less motivated to cured completely, and many of them decide to stop their treatment.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
As the only childhood cancer survivor in Indonesia, we expect that our present will impacted to help cancer patients and their families through varies approach.
Our first solution is to provide balance and positive information about childhood cancer. We would like to convince Indonesian people that cancer could be cured, and the medical treatment has very little impact to the patients after the treatment phase.
Secondly, we would like to be part of their medical treatment through motivation and psychiatric assistance. We would like to be friends of the patients, as someone who really know how do they feel in cancer.
Thirdly, we assist patients and their families to access funding support for the medical treatment and we also still keep our companion after they finish the medical treatment to ensure they live in a healthy environment and habits.
to summarize, we have three solution, which is : Inform, assist and motivate.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We will explain the primarily activity that we usually done. Firstly, we actively introduce our self and inform our contact to the public through our website, social media, and newsletter. From it, the public know us, and will contact us if they have any question related to childhood cancer.
We usually connect them with our members that have the same cancer-type as them. After the patients or their families made contact with our members, we usually suggest them to go to the nearest hospital that can manage cancer treatment.
We usually accompany them to the hospital and introduce them with the appropriate doctor that in charge in the hospital. We always try hard to convince the patients and their family that chemotherapy is the best way to achieve complete cure in cancer. We also help them if they need financial support access, and we frequently update the latest information to the patients and their families.
Our information about cancer has made many people detect childhood cancer earlier and it makes them go to the hospital for more sophisticated medical check to make sure about the cancer-type.
Our approach in convincing them to pursue medical treatment has made them willing to attempt the chemotherapy treatment.
Our effort in motivating them has made them have big motivation to be cured completely and have full confident that there will be no major impact after the chemotherapy.
Our means in accompanying them when the treatment phase and after the treatment made them have new friend to share about their feeling
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
We have quite much peers that always support us in strengthening our activity and sustainability. Our main mentors is The Indonesian Children Oncology Foundation, the National Cancer Center, main provincial hospital, oncologist, and several international institution that have concern with cancer.
They have big influence to our today's success, usually we expand our access to support our activity through them, they also frequently provide us with the update information about childhood cancer, and they always refer to us when they meet new cancer patients.
To date, we actually do not have any competitors, we always try to cooperate with various background of institution, and our approach to them had made a mutual partnership.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
We meet on early 2006, when one of our national hospital held an event on children cancer. On that day, we met for the first time, we actually never expect that we could meet other cancer survivor. In my experience, several patients that were being treatment with me on 1996 were pass away.
So, indeed, it is an amazing moment to met other survivor. After the event, we had several contact and we organize a ward visit to cancer patients. We spent our day by sharing with the patients and their families. We were very pleased with the respond of the patients, they need a success story of cancer, and we as cancer survivor are the success story for them.
That moment were the first time we think that we could develop our activities and established Cancer Buster Community.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Our main goal is to increase the fully recovered patients of childhood cancer in Indonesia.
And our derivative goal is
(1)to provide balance and positive information about childhood cancer.
(2)to give more success story about childhood cancer
(3)to be a fully motivated survivor group to assist survivors to be beneficial for many people
(4)to assist families with cancer patient in accessing financial support
And we have a long time dream, that one day, all cancer patients in Indonesia are free of charge.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have impacted in several achievements, which is :
(1) help Indonesian people to gain positive information about childhood cancer
(2) we had established our branch in 8 provincial hospital in 7 different cities.
(3) in our 5 years of our pace, we had connect more than 60 childhood cancer survivor in Indonesia and encourage them to help today's cancer patients and families
(4) we had stabilize our position as the only childhood cancer survivor group in Indonesia
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We have several primarily goals for the next five years.
(1) we plan to expand our memberships, both survivors and volunteer, to more than 200 members in 10 major cities in Indonesia
(2) we plan to establish Cancer Buster Community Office in 10 major hospital in Indonesia
(3) we plan to develop our multimedia connection and communication to Indonesian people to promote our influence in provide better information about childhood cancer
(4) we plan to expand our international network with other survivor groups in other countries and share experience on survivor role in reducing cancer death-rate.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
To strenghten our organization productivity and ensuring our frequent activity sustainability
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Promoting multimedia communications with members, volunteer, patients, families and people of Indonesia
Task 2
Expanding network to gain more financial support for organization sustainability
Task 3
Ensuring the infulence of Cancer Buster Community by providing more information about childhoo cancer
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Trusted by the people of Indonesia as an organization that could support cancer patients and their families
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Developing our national level frequently newsletter and social media
Task 2
Ensuring organization leadership in our branch in 7 cities in Indonesia
Task 3
Developing Childhood Cancer National Donation Movement
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Currently, we have develop our partnership to several private company in Indonesia. We gain funding from charity and events we run before. Moreover, we also made a relationship with survivors and their families that intend to support us.
Moreover, we had made partnership with 8 major hospital in Indonesia, and several foundation that focused in cancer issues. We also made partnership with the Ministry of Women and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia. Moreover, we also made an international partnership with the National University Hospital-Cancer Center of Singapore.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Our specific target are Indonesian childhood cancer patients and their families.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We need a kinship and positive internal organization environment. We are spreading motivation, inspiration and optimist opinion about cancer, so our members should have them too.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We need someone that could help us in promoting free-of-charge for cancer patients policy.
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| Cancer Buster Community Brand | 104.88 KB |
| One of our visit to the cancer patient | 219.29 KB |
| Our sharing activities to patients and families | 65.54 KB |
| CBC members in an AMWAY events | 174.37 KB |
| Cancer Survivors Choir in one of our event | 219.48 KB |
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