Making A Difference
Chemo Angels
Chemo Angels is a 501c3 non-profit
volunteer organization dedicated to adding a ray of
sunshine to the lives of those undergoing
treatment for cancer. The organization was founded by Laura
Armstrong in August 2000. Laura lost her father to pancreatic
cancer in 1989. Laura later met a woman who was going through
chemotherapy for breast cancer. Laura started sending her cards
and small gifts every week. After her treatment was over, the
woman told Laura that she thought of her as her "Chemo Angel."
These words inspired Laura to start a website that gives others the
opportunity to become Chemo Angels themselves.
The volunteers who run "Chemo
Angels" believe that people who are going through
the physical, emotional and mental rigors
of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or other cancer
therapies deserve some pampering and special treatment!
Many of the ChemoAngel
volunteers are cancer survivors themselves, or people whose
lives have been affected by cancer in some way.
Corporate Angel
Network
Corporate Angel Network is a charitable
organization based in White Plains, N.Y. The sole mission
of this organization is to ease the emotional stress, physical
discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients
by arranging for free flights to treatment centers, using empty
seats on corporate aircraft.
For More information
please visit http://www.corpangelnetwork.org/
The Carol Jean Cancer
Foundation, Inc
The Carol Jean Cancer Foundation, Inc.,
(CJCF) offers programs free of charge to help families
deal with the tremendous changes and challenges that arise
when a family member is diagnosed with cancer. Each program
was inspired by the courage, hope and love of a special individual
or family.
For More information please visit
http://www.cjcf4kids.com
Gilda's Club
Gilda's Club is a special place where the
focus is on living with cancer. Men, women and
children with any kind of cancer and their family members
and friends are encouraged to seek out emotional and social
support in addition to medical care.
At Gilda's Club community of support
is developed in which people of all ages with all kinds
of cancer learn from one another how to live more fully.
Angels For Hope
Angels
for Hope crochets angels, butterflies, and smiley faces to help
people of all ages in need of hope or a smile. We want people
to know there are others out there who care, and know they are not
alone in this world. All of the Angels for Hope members have a heart
of gold, and want to share the gift God gave them to bring hope and
a smile to someone who desperately needs it.
In your travels if you know some one
that is in need of a caring touch, is sick, dying, has lost someone
to death please go to this web site http://www.angelsforhope.org
and have an angel sent to them.