Dear John,
Many of us have a song that gets us through life's toughest moments. For 6-year-old Nano, a patient at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, that song is "Cielito Lindo," with its happy chorus, "Ay, yai, yai-yai, canta y no llores" ("sing and don't cry").
Nano has a rare genetic condition called Fanconi anemia, which caused his bone marrow to start failing when he was only 4 years old. Long hospital stays and complications following his bone marrow transplant were hard on this young music lover. But "Cielito Lindo" and the compassionate commitment of CHLA music therapist Hana Cho helped Nano through his darkest days.
John, Nano is one of many CHLA patients for whom you can make a bigger difference with your MATCHED gift. We need to hear from 98 more people by MIDNIGHT to help bring brighter days and better health to sick and injured kids, regardless of their families' financial means. Please give now.
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Your donation today goes TWICE as far to help support the specialized, child-centric environment at CHLA-where we use an extraordinary variety of tools, from music theory to virtual reality, to make the challenging realities of medical treatment as painless as possible for
our young patients.
In this challenging year, our kids and their families need your generous support more than ever. Please, make a generous gift of $10 or more to the Children's Fund and it will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $675,000, thanks to a generous match from Credit Unions for Kids.
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Thank you for your generosity!
- The team at CHLA
P.S. Did you know that when you give to CHLA this year, you may be eligible for up to $300 in charitable deductions when you file your taxes with a standard deduction, and even more if you itemize your deductions? Be sure to consult your tax advisor to confirm eligibility -- and make your tax-deductible gift before the Dec. 31 deadline!
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Dear John,
One of the most challenging parts of what we do at Children's Hospital Los Angeles is meeting people when they're at their lowest. But that's also what makes us fight the hardest to make their dreams come true.
Families come to us in their darkest moments-when babies fall mysteriously ill, when one medical professional after another has run out of answers, when all hope seems lost -- and our teams of experts work around the clock to find a solution.
For Raquel and Travis, their deepest wish was a new heart for their 2-year-old son, Elliott. He had always been a happy, active child. But suddenly, when he was 20 months old, Elliott woke up very sick. Emergency-room visits confirmed: Elliott was in heart failure.
We're looking for 200 people to answer a critical call by midnight tomorrow: Make a tax-deductible gift
of $10 or more that goes twice as far to help families that have run out of answers ... and hope. Your gift to the Children's Fund will be DOUBLED by a generous match from Credit Unions for Kids, up to $675,000.
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