$180,514.22 in One Week!
The B+ Foundation Family Assistance Program
Just today, for this week’s review of applications, I wrote out checks for $180,514.22 to ease the burden on families of kids with cancer, give them the best chance to survive, and show them that someone cares. You make it possible. Thank you! Here are just a few kids that we helped this week.
Is this guy precious, or what???
Camilla - 4 year old girl, kidney removed, on-going chemo for the next 19 weeks. Single Mom on unpaid leave.(mortgage)
Hailey - 3 year old girl, two stem cell transplantations, chemo, immunotherapy, multiple hospitalizations. Single Mom with little support from friends/family (mortgage)
Christian - 4 year old boy, multiple relapses of brain tumor; tumor growing again. (rent & utilities)
Trayvon - 2 year old, metastatic disease, stem cell transplant (power shut-off notice)
Lilly - 10 month old girl, hysterectomy at 6 months to remove cancer (rent)
Wesley - 2 month old boy, brain tumor, chemo, resection, daily radiation for 6 1/2 weeks- 105 miles from home (rent)
Sevai - 14 year old girl, on hospice with bone cancer, step-father left the family (rent)
Uday - 18 year old young man, visiting NYC relatives from Dominican Republic when diagnosed with Leukemia, chemo, 20 pounds of weight loss (various expenses)
B+ School Events
I have spent a good bit of time on the road over the last week and am so honored to represent Andrew’s Foundation. Last Friday, I spoke at Notre Dame, Andrew’s dream school. On Saturday, the NOVAdance students at Villanova raised nearly $500,000 for us, and overnight on Saturday (10pm-5am), Andrew’s Salesian brothers at Salesianum raised over $283k!!! Visits to the University of Delaware, The College of New Jersey, and Paul VI in Haddonfield, NJ rounded out my week.
Make it a great weekend!
B+
Ali & Andrew’s Dad