Queen Wilhelmina Fund

60 years of KWF Cancer Control – 60 years together against cancer

Written in: Dutch • Jacqueline van der Pas • September 8 2009

The Queen Wilhelmina Fund was established on August 29, 1949. Queen Wilhelmina had received a National Gift a year earlier on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee. She decided to spend this amount, approximately 2 million guilders, on the fight against cancer. About cancer...

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