ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM WHNT NEWS19: September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the United States, cancer kills more children than any other disease. In 2020 alone, it is expected to take the lives of approximately 1,200 children under 15 years of age. While great strides have been made in treating and even curing many…
Because of YOU – OUR SUPPORTERS, we were able to raise $90,000 in 2019!!! We gave checks to the following: St Jude Children’s Research Hospital- $25,000 for research of Ph+ ALL (the type of leukemia Sam had) $20,000 for use as needed The Huntsville Affiliate Clinic of St Jude- $10,000 (to be used for local…
Carnival of Giving aims to provide encouragement to seriously ill children Samuel Harmon, the youngest of 4 children, thundered through life with energy and enthusiasm, leaving an impression wherever he went. In the fall of 2015, Sam was 8 years old and in second grade when he began to complain of extreme backaches. Several visits…
Did you know that… Worldwide, every 2 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer? In the United States, more children are lost to cancer than any other disease? About 1 in 285 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20? Only 4% of federal government cancer research funding goes…
Sam, the youngest of 4 children, thundered through life with energy and enthusiasm, leaving an impression wherever he went. In the fall of 2015, Sam was 8 years old and in second grade when he began to complain of extreme backaches. Several visits to the doctor and x-rays yielded no results. Finally, the pain was…
