Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust (BTMAT)

Redcoat Kamino is a small Shipping agency, with its warehouse in Crawley, West Sussex. The company has been helpful, generous and courteous to a fault for BTMAT. We have used their services twice a year for the past decade; the last occasion was August 11th2011. The drill is as follows: collect donated and purchased items…

The International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) is a world-wide organization of doctors, nurses, medical scientists, and parents of children with cancer. There are continental and country conferences on a yearly basis, where ideas, experiences and research results are presented and discussed. BTMAT’s Clinical Director (Professor Peter Hesseling), its Founder (Dr Peter McCormick), and its…

Two concerts are coming soon. We hope that a fair sum of money will come BTMAT’s way as a result. The Rector and Churchwardens of Thorpe Malsor C of E Church, Northamptonshire, invited us to arrange a musical concert in the Church. This has been planned, and takes place on August 27th. We have Faryl…

BTMAT is proud to announce that we are now affiliated with World Child Cancer, a fairly new charitable organisation dedicated to the increasing problem of child cancer in developing countries, where only one in 10 survives compared to eight in 10 in developed countries. World Child Cancer has established commitment in 5 centres globally, and…

I visited Cameroon May 17th to 31st. The pattern of my visiting has now fallen into biannual trips, May and December with our clinical Director, Prof Peter Hesseling, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Oncology at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, S. Africa. For the first 3 days of this visit we were accompanied by Prof Mariana Kruger.…