ConKerr Cancer Minnesota: First Delivery to St. Mary's Duluth

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

First Delivery to St. Mary's Duluth

Great news! Snow will not hold us mighty Minnesotans back....our pillowcases made it to St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth! Whew-hoo!

Pam, from Little Marais, made our first delivery on February 15th. Pam has established a relationship with JoHannah Orman, the Child Life Specialist, at St. Mary's. Pam is on the left and JoHanna is on the right.

Pam is going to be our point person for St. Mary's Duluth. Thanks Pam!!

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ConKerr Cancer started when Cindy Kerr’s son was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and she began making pillowcases to brighten up his hospital room and to put a smile on his face. He loved it and so she began making pillowcases for other children on the Oncology Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Since then the pillowcase project, A Case for Smiles, has grown in amazing ways. We have provided over 240,000 pillowcases made by thousands of volunteers from across North America and in South Africa. School groups, sewing circles, church groups and fabric stores have all pitched in and are making pillowcases for the kids. An exciting new program has been to take fabric and sewing machines to hospitals and sew with the patients and their families.

ConKerr Cancer has been able to make amazing progress towards fulfilling our goal of making hospital stays as pleasant as possible for chronically ill children and their parents. Simultaneously the pillowcase project has fostered a spirit of community and volunteer service in communities across North America. Unfortunately the number of sick children never ends, and we must continue to expand our efforts to help brighten patients’ lives and raise awareness about childhood cancer.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

First Delivery to St. Mary's Duluth

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