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How KiteCrew provides meaningful support
Laura shares how using KiteCrew’s technology was a key part of managing her daughter’s cancer diagnosis.
KiteCrew is a free app that helps families facing childhood cancer coordinate the practical support they need to keep the household running during their child’s treatment. It makes reaching out to family and friends quick and easy.
Before KiteCrew: receiving the wrong kind of help
In April 2020, Laura’s three-year-old daughter Carys was diagnosed with leukaemia. Naturally, when hearing the news, Laura’s friends and family wanted to help.
Unfortunately, the kind of help Laura received only added more worry and emotional overwhelm on top of an already stressful cancer diagnosis.
Every day, Laura would come home from the hospital to:
Two years later, looking back, the main feeling I had around that time other than dealing with my daughter’s cancer diagnosis was the guilt. I had over twelve storage boxes of toys in our garage that were never going to be used properly.
Although our support networks mean well, it can be hard for them to understand what a family facing childhood cancer is going through and how best to support them.
What Laura really needed, was help with the day-to-day tasks of running the family home so she could focus on her daughter’s cancer treatment.
Like most families facing childhood cancer, Laura didn’t have the time or mental capacity to explain her needs to all the different people in her life who were trying to help her.
Thankfully, a friend recommended the KiteCrew technology and Laura quickly saw the benefits.
How KiteCrew provides meaningful help
KiteCrew is Redkite’s free cancer support app that allows families to upload all the tasks they need help with in one place and for friends and family to accept the tasks. KiteCrew also has a group messaging feature to keep everyone updated and a resource section full of tips and educational content.
By leaning on KiteCrew, Laura was able to let her support network know exactly what she needed when she needed it, reducing the workload and allowing her to focus solely on the care of her daughter.
Key Outcomes:
It was a key part of getting through that year. It satisfied everybody involved. It satisfied the people who wanted to help. It satisfied our family by having more control over how they helped when they helped, and to what extent they helped.
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KiteCrew is a free support app that coordinate’s all the practical support a family needs while their child is being treated for cancer.
KiteCrew – Redkite’s game-changer in childhood cancer support
KiteCrew is a free support app that coordinate’s all the practical support a family needs while their child is being treated for cancer.
