New Beginnings …

Kinder Kanzer Genezing opened in 2009 as a charity in the Netherlands, working as part of the globally-focused “Children’s Cancer Alliance” based in the United States and with a satellite office also in Germany.
Since then, we have faced many typical challenges of a new charity, and spent much of our time working to strengthen our outreaches for children and their families in spite of a weak global economy.

New Leadership …

We are pleased to announce that, after several months’ working to reorganize into a more effective charity, a new Board of Directors was elected in mid-July 2011, and a new Managing Director/Chairman appointed, Dr. Joel MacCollam, already familiar to many in the Netherlands as the founder of Stichting Wereld Nood Hulp, based in Amsterdam. This new Board includes several with high expertise in charity management and oversight, including Lawrence Cutting (California, USA), Marie Wrinn, B.N.S. (Arizona, USA) and Michelle Laurel (Manila, Philippines). Two others have been nominated and await confirmation.
KKG has been admitted into the “Child’s Hope Fund” family of charities, with offices in San Diego (USA), Hong Kong and Berlin (Germany), and a satellite office in Manila (Philippines).

New Challenges …

Decades of experience managing charities warns our Board of Directors that our relaunch must be carefully structured and tightly managed. While it is very tempting to seek to promote research into cancer and other chronic diseases of childhood, our Board has decided to focus primarily on procuring large-scale donations of valuable, even life-saving medicines not normally available overseas at affordable prices or with easy accessibility.
The CHF family, of which KKG is now an important new member, has for over 25 years focused on the ethical procurement and distribution of medicines and medical supplies, food, clothing and other essentials needed in disaster areas and the developing world. KKG’s primary focus will be securing and distributing medicines and medical supplies ranging from hospital beds to surgical gloves, all to benefit sick children, their families and the local institutions serving them. Our secondary focus will be developing, publishing and distribution educational materials for family members about pediatric cancers, both what causes them and hope medicine can help their children.

Our Goals for the Next 18 Months

By the time we report our first 18 months relaunched, our Board expects to secure and distribute Euro 5,000,000 of medicines with high value in treating children. Our projects will include local hospitals and clinics in the Philippines, Honduras, Malawi and South Africa; we hope we can also expand our new outreaches into Colombia.
I’d also like us to support the publication of a Handbook for Families about chronic diseases of children and how sibilings, grandparents, parents and family friends can deal with the uncertainties and grief which normally follows diagnosis.
And while we are working for healing, as our name suggests, we are realistic enough to recognize that many conditions are terminal, even under the best possible medical treatment. To that end, we will be looking for venues in our project countries to introduce local care givers to pediatric palliative care and also hospice for children.

It Can Happen … Our Pledge to You

We are not interested in building a charity empire. Our relaunch will be staffed by a part-time Administrative Coordinator. Our Chief Executive will be working “for free” for at least 18 months, only his direct expenses for travel being covered by KKG … and those shared with the other three CHF Family members. Our heart is for children, and our goals embrace helping them as best as possible, with minimal or no “red tape” and only the desire to see them well again and their families comforted.



Joel MacCollam


About Our President



Our new Chief Executive, Joel MacCollam, is an ordained pastor in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church in the USA and was, for several years, the denomination’s national representative for parents and clergy with concerens about their children in religious cults. He founded World Emergency Relief (USA) in 1985 and subsequently launched WER offices in Hong Kong, Bonn, Paris, London, San Diego and Amsterdam. For several years in the 2000s, WER was one of the 200 largest charities in the USA (out of 1.25 million organizations); WER’s London office had similar influence over UK charitable work during his tenure. MacCollam retired from many WER responsibilities in 2009 for health reasons, but has been able to sustain and grow his own concerns for suffering children since then. He now heads CHF offices in Berlin and Hong Kong (formerly WER offices) and CHF’s main office in the U.S. (California).
MacCollam is well known and respected for his advocacy of direct intervention into the lives of sexually abused children overseas. He has also enjoyed popularity among non-profits in Asia and Africa for his readiness to teach fund-raising and management seminars at no cost to attendees.
An accomplished professional musician, MacCollam is also the proud father of Jessica (33), a professional Home Manager in San Diego, and Jordan (32), owner of a hospitality business in Bucaramanga, Colombia.