Help Cancer Patients at the Holidays ! (and Year Round Too)
We all may face cancer at some time. Thus it is important to act now to help those with cancer. Try to find a little time to make a big difference with doing some good deeds.
Everyone can donate time to volunteer to help cancer patients. It doesn't take money to help others. Sometimes time is the most precious gift of all to help others.
Buy Cookies for Pediatric Cancer Research
Buy cookies at www.cookiesforkidscancer.org to help raise funds for research of pediatric cancer. You may also want to hold your own bake sale and donate the funds earned!
A bake sale is a great project for kids and teens who want to get involved in doing good deeds. It would be a fun family project to raise funds to help cancer patients.
Give Blood
Donate blood! Cancer patients require a lot of blood transfusions. Go to www.givelife.org to find out how to donate blood through the Red Cross. Blood donations are always in critical need over the holiday season.
Donate to Cancer Research Centers
Donate directly to cancer research centers:
Memorial Sloan Cancer Center (New York, www.mskcc.org),
Dana-Farber (Boston, www.dana-farber.org),
Saint Jude's Children's Hospital (Nashville, www.stjude.org)
Texas Children's Hospital (Houston, www.texaschildrens.org).
MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, www.mdanderson.org)
Donate Gifts to Patients
Visit a hospital over the holiday season and drop off some gifts. Cheer up some patients. It is always difficult to be in the hospital, but it must be even tougher at the holiday season, especially for kids in the hospital. A bag full of teddy bears, books for kids, or holiday stuff like reindeer dolls or Santa dolls would be a nice treat for kids in the hospital.
Volunteer or Donate to Cancer Foundations that Help Patients
Susan G. Komen Foundation www.komen.org
American Cancer Society www.cancer.org
LiveStrong Foundation: www.livestrong.org
Buy Hats as Holiday Gifts
Buy a beautiful crochet hat or prayer square from @HookingStitches at Twitter. Find the hats at: www.artfire.com/users/HookingStitches. She makes hats for cancer patients and donates them to Halos of Hope. Read about this and join in too if you crochet or sew at www.halosofhope.com. Hooking Stitches uses the funds raised by selling hats to create more hats for cancer patients. So support this great company!
*This article donated as a good deed to volunteer and serve others per President Obama's request.
SOURCES:
Personal experience
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Published by Julia Bodeeb
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