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American Diabetes Association

Community Health Charities | 13, January 2010 | Community Health Charities, Member Charities, Success Stories | No Comments

Maya, now 22, remembers growing up and seeing her best friend’s dad carrying around a little case with vials and needles. He had diabetes, and it was then that she decided she never wanted to have that disease. When she was 21, Maya first developed diabetes symptoms. While she...

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Easter Seal Society

Community Health Charities | 13, January 2010 | Community Health Charities, Member Charities, Success Stories | No Comments

At age 2, Allison was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Two years later, she began attending the family swimming program at Easter Seals. The program provided Allison with the exercise she needed to increase her range of motion and relax her muscles. At 14, Allison wanted to create a place...

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What Your $ Buys

$26 ($1/pay period)	• A distance chart for vision screenings. • A wig for a child with cancer • Two hours of oxygen for a hospitalized child
$52 ($2/pay period)	• A Braille watch for an individual who has become blind. • Production of 175 shower cards reminding women to do a self breast examination and get regular mammograms. • Four hours of home health care for a patient with life limiting illness.
$104 ($4/pay period)	• A Damato Campimeter for glaucoma screening. • 75 minutes of physical therapy. • A blood transfusion.
$208 ($8/pay period)	• Training to teach a volunteer to screen children with a photoscreener. • Mammograms for three indigent women. • Four batteries for wheelchairs.
$416 ($16/pay period)	• Lab and physician fees for a pediatric spinal tap. • Production for 4,000 educational material conveying vital cancer prevention and early detection information. • Laboratory supplies for two major research experiments.
	Note: These donation figures are based on a bi-monthly pay period.