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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume IV - 2012 8  community, who have already suffered and died with breast cancer, due to a very late diagnosis; the QSCBC project hopes to combat this type of understandable attitude. Breast cancer to many women still equates to a terrible death. Figure 5: Women from the communities at the QSCBC for screening. All funds are raised for this outreach project by the QSCBC and the work is carried out at weekends, preventing a fi nancial burden or indeed an increase in the heavy daily workload at the QSCBC. All staff volunteer their personal time, aided by cancer survivors and their families. The project has a remit to serve the very poorest women, so to guarantee the best stewardship of the raised funds, the valuable insight and assistance of volunteer social workers is gratefully accepted. It is essential to ensure the funds raised for the project are used in the most valuable way and on the most needy candidates. QSCBC also works closely with NGOs in each community to achieve this goal. The project tries wherever possible towork alongside other welfare programmes, including those that promote microcredit projects or childrens’ education programmes, which aim to improve the quality of life for these women and their families. One project may offer help with school fees and uniforms, another baby milk. An international chain of restaurants that has cooked for President Clinton, President Bush and President The story behind the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, its philosophy and outreach projects.