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Hope & Help for Children with Cancer in New Jersey
Unlike national organizations that fund research, we are an independent, New Jersey based non-profit organization, working hands on with each family. The Ashley Lauren Foundation depends on the support of the community-at-large in order to provide immediate relief for the daily burdens thrust upon those who are battling pediatric cancer.
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‘Celebrity Chef to Host Benefit for Pediatric Cancer in New Jersey’
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Celebrity Chef to Host Benefit for Pediatric Cancer in New Jersey
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The Ashley Lauren Foundation will host its Chefs Who Care fundraiser on April 29 at Addison Park in Aberdeen, NJ. The event aims will raise funds to combat pediatric cancer. Italian American chef, and...
Meet precious 10 year old, Emma. If you attended Chefs Who Care last year, you would have been honored to be in the presence of this warrior. We learned about Emma through one of our chefs for the event, Chef Joey Sergentakis who is Emma's uncle.
Emma had this beautiful custom dress made for her based on the colors and designs she picked out prior to our event. She was finally able to display it at Chefs Who Care in front of hundreds of proud supporters. Boy, she was beaming with such pride, and we were celebrating her victory of leukemia.
However, little did many know that several months later, Emma and her family got the devastating news that she relapsed. She has gone through T-Cell therapy, and other traditional methods for relapsed B-Cell ALL with no response.
Unfortunately, they have to embark on a hard journey that they are hoping will be their saving grace: a stem cell transplant. Emma will begin her inpatient stay starting April 1st (2 days away) and it will take anywhere between 30-45 days for her to recover.
In preparation for this life-altering event, we want to help give the family as much food support as possible as meals get quite expensive at the CHOP. The family has requested Doordash and UberEats credits, meal vouchers (cannot be purchased yet until she is inpatient).
Please help support Emma in her journey. You can email Doordash credits to mom. Her email is janine.m.cardenas@gmail.com.
And as always, please pray for sweet Emma. Let's root her on! She was strong before and we know she's going to come out stronger than ever!
Thank you to everyone for helping to adopt gifts from Ariel's Amazon Smiles registry. Yesterday was the special delivery day!
Just look at her reactions of all of her fun gifts.
Though she's headed in for her life-saving stem cell transplant at CHOP in an attempt to get rid of her relapsed B-Cell ALL forever, we are so grateful to all of you for putting the BIGGEST smile on her face today. Hopefully she can bring many of her new items and decorate her hospital room!
We are so grateful to our following sponsors of Chefs Who Care for their generosity:
