Family Assistance for July, August, September & October 2015. It is because of your generosity and continued support that we were able to financially assist 17 families during the last 4 months totaling $16,139.67 and we have provided $34,717.82 of financial assistance to our families so far this year.
Our financial assistance we give varies each month depending on our family’s request. We feel it is important to help out the family or families with whatever their specific need is at the time. Although we work directly with the Resource specialists at Boston Children's Hospital / The Jimmy Fund Clinic and Hasbro Children's Hospital, we also get applications from people that have learned of us online through the DIPG Registry, Social Media as well as Social Workers and Resources Specialists from other hospitals across the United States.
During the month of July we were able to assist a 16 yr. old young lady’s family from TX with their mortgage, a 11 year old girl’s family from SC with a utility bill and a 13 year old young girl’s family from CT with their mortgage as well as helping with some of their fuel & food costs while they are traveling daily for treatments. The total financial assistance for the month of July was $3,682.61
During the month of August we were able to assist a 5 yr. old little girl’s family from TX with a utility bill, a 6 yr. old little girl’s family from CA with fuel and food, a 2 yr. old little girls family from MA with their utilities, food & gas, an 8 yr. old little girl’s family from NY with daycare and sadly we also helped pay funeral expenses for a 17 year old from MA. The total financial assistance for the month of August was $4,898.45
During the month of September we were able to assist a 10 yr. old boy’s family with their electric bill, a 4 month old baby girl from TX with her family’s mortgage payment, a 13 yr. old boy from Ohio with his family’s rent payment, we purchased an iPad for a 3 yr. old boy in TX and we paid an insurance payment for a 6 yr. old boy’s family from MA. The total financial assistance for the month of September was $3,141.69
During the month of October we were able to assist a 6 yr. old little girl family from Ma with their mortgage payment, a 2 yr. old little boy’s family from CA with fuel and grocery assistance, a 5 yr. old boy from NY with his family’s rent payment and a 11 yr. old girl from MN with her family’s utilities. The total financial assistance for the month of October was $4,416.92
Childhood brain cancer/tumors are devastating and help is always needed for families who are battling. They deserve to spend every single minute being with their precious child and not having to worry about day to day bills piling up. We can't thank you all enough for helping us help others. You can learn a little more about our children by visiting our photo gallery tab on our website - we have a photo album dedicated to our brave warriors, just click on their pictures to learn a little about them! It is with great sadness that I also have to share that we lost 3 of our brave warriors since my last newsletter. Bianka forever 5, Javier forever 17 and Riva forever 8. Please keep their families in your thoughts & prayers.
Funding Research... Our funding to date has been to support The Evan T. Mandeville DIPG Research Fund at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. Evan was a fun spirited little boy who was diagnosed with DIPG in the November after Cory. He lost his more than courageous battle a year to the day of his diagnosis on November 13, 2012, just 3 months after Cory passed away. He was 11 years old. Like us, Tim and Aimee, Evan's parents have become very passionate with their cause, which is specific to funding research for DIPG. We understand how unforgiving this disease is and what it means to find a cure. Imagine if we could find a cure for the most difficult to treat and devastating brain tumor of all and what that would mean for the advancement in all cancer/tumor treatments.
Together we can make a difference in the life of a child battling brain cancer/tumors.
Teresa & Jim Gaudet
Co-Founders
www.coryscrusaders.org
Thank you to all of you that support us by attending our events & make donations. Last month for July we were able to financially assist 5 families totaling $4,534.49. Some of the things we helped with were medical bills not covered by insurance, mortgages and loans . We even got to grant a little boy a wish of an Ipad. These are bills we all take for granted to be able to pay but when you have a child fighting for their life, being with them and not being able to work becomes your reality. People struggle not only emotionally but financially as well! Being able to grant a wish to one of our brave warriors is so important as well. The purchase of an Ipad may not seem like a necessity to some but when your child has to be taken away from their siblings for treatment sometimes this becomes their way of staying in touch. Being able to face time family and friends is priceless when you are far away due to treatments. They also help pass the time when a child has to been in the hospital for hours, days, weeks or sometimes months.. In our case Cory's first gift he was given was an Ipad. To see his face light up when he received it meant the world to us. He used his Ipad daily to watch movies, play games, message friends & family and to help with his motor skills as his tumor progressed. It eventually became his only form of communication with us when he could no longer speak and had to use an app called speech assist. These kids are all so very brave. They are fighting for their life. I ask that you please take a moment to visit our Brave Warrior photo album to see some of the children you have directly helped!
Sincerely,
