No child should navigate chronic illness alone.

No child should navigate chronic illness alone.

Starting with sickle cell, we support families, build tools, and work with healthcare systems to make everyday life easier for children living with long-term conditions.

Starting with sickle cell, we support families, build tools, and work with healthcare systems to make everyday life easier for children living with long-term conditions.

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The problem

Childhood doesn’t pause for sickle cell.

Childhood doesn’t pause for sickle cell.

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Health

Community

Support

Health

Community

In the UK alone, thousands of children are growing up with a condition that brings pain, uncertainty, and complex care needs into everyday life.

Globally, over 300,000 babies are born with sickle cell each year — many facing limited access to the care and support they need to thrive.

Behind every diagnosis is a family navigating hospital visits, school disruptions, and the emotional weight of managing a lifelong condition.

It’s overwhelming.

It’s isolating.

And too often, it’s navigated without the right support.

In the UK alone, thousands of children are growing up with a condition that brings pain, uncertainty, and complex care needs into everyday life.

Globally, over 300,000 babies are born with sickle cell each year — many facing limited access to the care and support they need to thrive.

Behind every diagnosis is a family navigating hospital visits, school disruptions, and the emotional weight of managing a lifelong condition.

It’s overwhelming.

It’s isolating.

And too often, it’s navigated without the right support.

Our work includes partnerships with:

Our work includes partnerships with:

Our work includes partnerships with:

Founder story

This didn’t start as an organisation.

This didn’t start as an organisation.

It started as a mother navigating sickle cell — a diagnosis that changed everything.

What followed was a journey many families know too well: searching for answers, managing hospital care, and trying to create a sense of normal life in the middle of uncertainty.

It became clear that families needed more than medical care alone. They needed support, understanding, and tools that fit into real life.

Crescent Kids and Eli Health were built from that place — combining lived experience with innovation to create something better for the families who come next.

It started as a mother navigating sickle cell — a diagnosis that changed everything.

What followed was a journey many families know too well: searching for answers, managing hospital care, and trying to create a sense of normal life in the middle of uncertainty.

It became clear that families needed more than medical care alone. They needed support, understanding, and tools that fit into real life.

Crescent Kids and Eli Health were built from that place — combining lived experience with innovation to create something better for the families who come next.

Research & impact

Advancing understanding through research

Advancing understanding through research

Our work goes beyond support — we are contributing to research that improves how sickle cell is understood and managed.

Our work goes beyond support — we are contributing to research that improves how sickle cell is understood and managed.

These insights are helping to shape better support systems for children and families — both in healthcare and beyond.

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Donations

You can help change what this journey looks like.

Your support helps:

  • Fund vital research

  • Support families navigating daily challenges

  • Build tools that make managing health easier for children

Community

You don’t have to do this alone.

You don’t have to do this alone.

Join a growing community of parents, clinicians, and educators who are reshaping how we support children living with sickle cell and other long-term conditions.

Stay informed. Stay connected. Be part of something meaningful.

Join a growing community of parents, clinicians, and educators who are reshaping how we support children living with sickle cell and other long-term conditions.

Stay informed. Stay connected. Be part of something meaningful.

The work that the CK team have been doing is phenomenal. It is so noble and incredible the lives they’ve touched.

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Christiana Okonkwo

Supporter

The work that the CK team have been doing is phenomenal. It is so noble and incredible the lives they’ve touched.

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Christiana Okonkwo

Supporter

"I learn something new every time we meet. Crescent Kids has completely changed how we approach our son's condition."

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Betty Quayson

Mum to a sickle cell warrior, Age 7

"I learn something new every time we meet. Crescent Kids has completely changed how we approach our son's condition."

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Betty Quayson

Mum to a sickle cell warrior, Age 7

"If you're caring for someone with sickle cell, please reach out. You don't have to do this alone."

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Nisha Wong

Mum to a sickle cell survivor

"If you're caring for someone with sickle cell, please reach out. You don't have to do this alone."

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Nisha Wong

Mum to a sickle cell survivor

"With Crescent Kids, I'm learning every day what I need to know for my daughter's well-being. I finally feel like someone is on our side."

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Stacey Sambury

Mum to a sickle cell warrior, Age 5

"With Crescent Kids, I'm learning every day what I need to know for my daughter's well-being. I finally feel like someone is on our side."

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Stacey Sambury

Mum to a sickle cell warrior, Age 5

Speaking & partnerships

Bring this conversation to your organisation.

Funmi works with healthcare leaders, organisations, and partners to share lived experience, practical insight, and a forward-looking view on how we can improve outcomes for children and families.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Who do you support?

Children diagnosed with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia, primarily in Nigeria. UK-based families receiving NHS care — get in touch to discuss what's available.

How do I register my child?
Is there a cost to families?
How is my donation used?
Can I donate in someone's name?
Can my company get involved?
How do I stay updated?
Who do you support?

Children diagnosed with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia, primarily in Nigeria. UK-based families receiving NHS care — get in touch to discuss what's available.

How do I register my child?
Is there a cost to families?
How is my donation used?
Can I donate in someone's name?
Can my company get involved?
How do I stay updated?

Be part of changing what childhood care looks like.

Whether you give, join, or partner, your involvement helps create a future where no child or family has to navigate this journey alone.