Help a Child with Cancer

[jhog1]

The daughter of very good friend, who is going to St. John Fisher College is participatinging in the Teddi Dance at Camp Good Times for children with cancer. If you have a child with cancer in your life, you know this place is run by angels. Any donation big or small will help. Here is a link to Mary's page and a paragraph on the history of Camp Good Days. I told her she set her goal way to low, i would love to see her go way past the $100 feel free to give it a bump after you read it

CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES, INC.

In 1979, Elizabeth "Teddi" Mervis was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at the age of nine. Her father, Gary Mervis, traveled across the country to major medical centers seeking the best possible treatment for his daughter. He returned home without the answers he had been looking for and realized that it was not the craniotomy, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy that was causing Teddi the most pain, but it was the loneliness of being the only child in her school and neighborhood dealing with cancer.

With the help and support of many friends and community members in Greater Rochester, New York, Gary founded Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc., a 501©3 not-for-profit organization, to provide Teddi and other children with cancer the opportunity to come together in a residential camping experience, to be with the only ones who could truly understand what they were going through – other children with cancer.

Camp Good Days was the fourth organization of its kind in the United States and the first to be started by a lay person. Since its inception, Camp Good Days has served more than 42,000 campers from 22 states and 25 foreign countries. Camp Good Days maintains accreditation from the American Camp Association;and has been inducted into the Safety 1st Hall of Fame by Markel Insurance Company.

Edited February 9, 2012 by jhog1

[jhog1]

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[Karpteach]

To the top

[First-light]

Very nice.

[jhog1]

Thank you everyone St John Fisher Raised more than $45,000 in 24 hrs

http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=300852

[nyantler]

As the father of a son that had cancer.. it is always good to see people doing what they can to help out... there really are some very good people in the world.