| Help Us Make A Difference! |
| Hi we are Nicholas Marriam and Shelby McKnew. Nick is 13 and Shelby is 12 years old. We are cousins and do an annual Make A Difference Day project together, Here is a little background info: |
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| Ways to help: **Some Companies provide a donation box for their customers to place items in. **Make A Difference Night at your business where a percentage goes toward the project. **A personal or company donation. Help spread the word about our project! |
| Some ideas of what we collect: Gift cards to purchase non donated items, Toys, Videos, Video Games, Movie Passes, Toiletries, Food Coupons, Activity books, Phone Cards, Books, CD's, crafts. Anything to help the kids think of anything other than being sick! We also collect scrapbooking materials to include in the bags, to help them remember the good times too during the treatment. |
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| If you'd like to help us please use link below, any and all help is greatly appreciated! |
| We have been doing this project every year since he got better. Our project won a national award from Paul Newman! Nick lives in North Carolina and Shelby in Maryland. We collect all we can and get together and make gift bags and distribute them to Washington Childrens Hospital in Washington DC (where Nick was 1st treated) and to Duke Universitys Childrens hospital in North Carolina (where he gets follow up care). There are alot of kids who are lonely and sick in the hospital and these gift bags really help, we spend time with some of the kids and they smile and say thanks for visiting. The parents usually cry because they are reminded that people care about what they are going through. We try to make 250 bags for each hospital and need your support!! |
| A few years ago we started collecting items to make gift bags for children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. We did this because when Nick was 6, he was one of those kids. He was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoma Cancer. He was in the hospital alot and had to grow up very fast and go through lots of scary things. He got Chemotherapy every week, spinal taps, pills, shots and was very sick! He was in the hospital so much he missed 2 years of school and was very lonely in there. When he came home he still couldn't get out much or get many visitors because of germs. |
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| We are proud to announce our Non-profit organization |
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