NK Ventures

02/06/2026

01/06/2026

Jonathan Dupré didn’t have a single day off left. He had used them all — every last one — in waiting rooms, chemotherapy sessions, and medical checkups for Naëlle, his 5-year-old daughter diagnosed with kidney cancer. In December, she underwent surgery to remove a 13-centimeter tumor. Then came 31 weeks of chemotherapy. Then a lung infection. And Jonathan kept showing up. Until he simply couldn’t anymore: the days ran out. That was when his boss, at a French glass packaging company with more than 6,000 employees, had an idea. He told him about a law that allows workers to donate days off to a colleague with a seriously ill child. And his coworkers responded. One by one. Until they reached a total of 350 days. “It was very important that we could be with our daughter,” Jonathan said. That was all he managed to say.