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Townshend and Daltrey back new US cancer initiative
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 7 November 2011
When not making misguided remarks about the digital music era, that Pete Townshend fella likes to turn his hand to charity work, so if conference organisers can just stop asking him to speak, we won’t have to listen to any misinformed industry moaning, and more charities will benefit. Double win.
In his latest charity venture, Townshend is teaming up with bandmate Roger Daltrey to back a Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program at UCLA in Los Angeles. The new charitable initiative has parallels with the UK’s Teenage Cancer Trust, with which both Daltrey and Townshend have long been associated via their annual fund-raising concerts at the Albert Hall. It will aim to fund special hospital units for young people receiving cancer treatment.
According to a statement the new organisation, which will be launched by Daltrey this week and is also backed by Robert Plant, will aim “to ensure that every young person receives the best possible care and professional support to help meet the unique physical and emotional challenges resulting from a cancer diagnosis. The belief is that teenagers and young adults shouldn’t stop enjoying their youth just because they have cancer”.
It continues: “The UCLA Daltrey/Townshend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program’s special hospital unit will be a comforting environment where young people stay in adjoined patient rooms around a common lounge so they can provide emotional support for each other. The units are designed to provide, as closely as possible, a normal life, helping the youngsters cope with gruelling treatments and long hospital stays”.
