For Your Information
September 6th Monday
Mansfield Labor Day Parade
Starts at 10am We are going to bring awareness of childhood cancer to everyone we can!
September 5th Sunday
Walmart in Ontario 10am-6pm
Bakesale fundraiser
August 22nd Sunday
Blueberry Patch Festival
Lexington, Ohio
We will be in the Children with Disabilities tent speaking about children with cancer.
August 21st Saturday
We'll be in the parade carrying the Friends Like Us banner
August 20th Friday
Online Store Grand Opening
August 14th
Radio Podcast Interview
Mel Majoros with Empower Radio featuring Deloris Bailey of Friend Like Us
July 28th Wednesday
Cedar Point with A Kid Again, joining families of children with cancer for a day of fun.
July 11th Sunday
Walmart fundraiser in Columbus, Ohio
July 5-9th
Online Fundraiser Bear Drive
we raised $415 Thank you!
June 30th
Nationwide Children's Child's Lab Mansfield, Ohio
Toy drop off for all the kids who have to get labs done on them
June 26th Saturday
Relay For Life Mansfield, Ohio
June 24th
Columbus Children's Hospital
Dropping off greeting cards for kids
June 14th
Ronald McDonald House Columbus
We are making dinner for the families to enjoy and providing toys for all the kids to help families.
June 7th
Mansfield Memorial Homes
Spending the day with children helping senior citizens make greeting cards for kids with cancer.
GIFTSHOP
The giftshop is now open for business. We are happy to offer gifts that make a difference and help kids at the same time. Check it out today :)
MONTH OF SEPTEMBER
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! Let's all do our part to raise awareness to bring in greater support to kids everywhere :)
NEW BOOK
We have partnered with Children's Author Jenevieve Fisher to bring a great book about childhood cancer for kids to help them
BEAR DRIVE
Chemo Bear Drive has officially started HERE
BLOG
Be sure to check out
our blog for information, resources, articles and a special section called "Everyday Heroes" Friends Like Us Blog
NEW MASCOT
Friends Like Us just adopted an official mascot! His name is Murry and he will be going to hospitals and more visiting kids w/cancer :) more to come!
CURRENT NEEDS
* In need of office space
* We need some help with fundraising. Share ideas or host?
* Looking for sponsors :)
Website: Share our website with others, on your social networks. This will help spread awareness of childhood cancer which doesn't get enough attention and let many know about Friends Like Us helping children. Please forward a link of this website to your family and friends. (copy & paste) www.friendslikeus.org
Twitter: Tweet to let people know about us. Twitter is a great place where we actually interact with others online.
Facebook: Suggest our our facebook page to your friends at least twice a month. If you have a fan page, select ours as one of your favorites.
Blog/Podcast: Consider writing or podcasting about Friends Like Us and what we do to help children with cancer.
Help: Help us grow the organization so we can reach more kids and families. Would you help us spread the word about Friends Like us and what we're doing to as many people as you can?
The HUGS program is about making handmade greeting cards for kids diagnosed with cancer that encourage, inspire and uplift them while in the hospital.
We feel that kids are getting a HUG when they open up a card and a smile illuminates their face. We want to show them that we really care about them and that they are not alone . What may seem like just a greeting card to us, may be the very thing that brightens up their spirit and puts a smile on their face. That is reason enough to deliver greeting cards to every child with cancer in the hospitals.
When we're able to; we will include a small gift/toy with each card to the children.
If you would like to help us in making handmade greeting cards (local or out of state), please feel free to contact us. We can use your help!
Card Ideas
Want more information or to become a HUGS Representative? Click Here
This is where you can listen to any radio or podcast interviews that features Friends Like Us. All media can be accessed by the drop down arrow to see titles below :)
Friends Like Us welcomes you or your organization to host a fundraiser to benefit Friends Like Us in helping kids with cancer and we appreciate your support.
So, what can you do to help...you ask?
1. Host a bakesale or home parties. Fundraising parties can take virtually any form, from a casual BBQ or a pizza party to a more formal cocktail or dinner party. Some have even helped by having a yard/garage sale to benefit Friends Like Us.
2. "The Big Challenge" (Young people love this one!) All it is, is raising money by getting pledges/donations from your family, friends or co-workers. If you raise a specific amounts, you can get a iPod in your choice of color. How cool is that? If you're interested in helping this way, please feel free to contact us. Thank you!
The best and most successful fundraisers are those which reflect your creativity, passion and heart. However we are here to help and share ideas. Contact us via email or by calling the office and we'll help in any way we can and get your started.
Office ph(419) 557-8543
contact; Mark Bailey
info_friendslikeus.org
Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. Cancer crosses every border, affects children of every race, nationality, age, socio-economic level and religion. These children hope for the same things that healthy children hope for, they dream of being princesses or pirates, walking on the moon, getting married and having children... but cancer gets in the way.
* In the United States more than 12,600 children are diagnosed with cancer each year
* One in every 330 Americans develops cancer before the age of twenty.
* On the average, 36 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer everyday in the United States.
* On the average, one in every four elementary schools has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are current or former cancer patients.
* Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15 in the United States.
* On average a treatment for childhood cancer diagnosis is two years, but cancer treatment varies with the type of cancer, the age and sometimes the gender of the patient.
* Childhood cancers affect more potential patient-years of life than any other cancer except breast and lung cancer.
* The causes of most childhood cancers are unknown. At present, childhood cancer cannot be prevented.
Some information obtained from St. Baldricks Research and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation
