Childhood Leukemia Foundation:
Childhood Leukemia Foundation provides free services to children with cancer, including wigs and hats for hair loss, gift baskets for children in cancer treatment centers, financial aid, educational items, Care 4 Kids Camps, gift cards and telephone calling cards. Childhood Leukemia Foundation has been providing free services to these very special children for over 11 years.
www.clf4kids.com.
Heavenly Hats:
Anthony Leanna, a 13 year old boy from WI, started this program of donating hats to cancer patients. If you and your fellow patients would like free hats, please tell your parents or medical caretakers to visit his website:
www.heavenlyhats.com. They get hats donated in large quantities, so your hospital, treatment center or doctor's office can request a donation for you and all your clinic friends!
The Jared Box:
lifting the spirits of chronically ill children, this group honors the memory of six year old Jared who fought a brain stem tumor. Boxes are assembled by the group (and also other organizations who wish to assemble boxes), ands delivered to medical facilities. Contact them about boxes for you hospital or support group! Contact them at: The Jared Box Project, 129 Fenwick Drive, Port Matilda, PA 16870. Email: TheJaredBox@aol.com or phone: (814)353-9343. Visit them on the web: www.thejaredbox.com.
Angels for Hope:
Angels for Hope offers free crocheted angels, butterflies and smiley faces to anyone who needs some encouragement and hope! Visit them at www.angelsforhope.org
Taybears:
Taylor Crabtree was featured in the LandsEnd catalog for kids as a young hero. Taylor started her organization which sends teddybears out in bulk to hospitals because of her grandmother's fight with cancer. You can nominate your hospital to receive a box of Taylor's teddy bears by emailing her at
taybear@bigfoot.com or having your hospital send a request on her web site!
www.taybearhugs.org
Shadow Buddies:
Soft doll friends for kids and resource packets for medical caretakers. 21 illnesses have their own symptom and treatment specific buddies- oncology being one of them. To check out the Shadow Buddies, find them at www.shadowbuddies.com email the founder: marty@shadowbuddies.com or call 1-888-BUDDIE-1 or (913) 390-8777.
The Karing Book:
A medical records and appointment organizer. Helps relieve the stress related to mangaing and organizing in the midst of the cancer battle. Founder, Charlotte Hawkins, is the mother of Kara who had cancer. To order the organizer, call Charlotte at 1-800-9KARING (OR) or write to Karing, 82790 Davidson, Tygh Valley, OR 97063.
(Note: please feel free to submit additional resources for possible inclusion in this section.)
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