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It’s a 24/7 job being a mom.

Imagine if you had to fight for that time to be with your child.

Join Andre Sobel Foundation in supporting moms who need to go beyond the clock this Mother’s Day.

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Beyond the Clock

Kimberly is a single mother with two children. Six-year-old Marques, diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancerous mass on his adrenal glands that had metastasized throughout his entire body, faced a 30% chance of survival.

Mom was forced to quit her job. She relied on her savings. She cut out all unessential expenses. But then, Kimberly couldn’t pay the rent. Chemotherapy, radiation and a stem marrow transplant put her son’s cancer in remission until a few weeks ago when the cancer relapsed.

Kimberly keeps up her good spirits even as Marques is back in the hospital and has significant hearing loss from the last intensive treatment. ASRL has stepped in and paid for January and April’s rent to give Kimberly more cuddle time at her son’s side.

Help Kimberly go beyond the clock.

Kimberly & Marques

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Andie is a single mother with two teens, one facing a rare and life-threatening illness. As a high-school student, Jeremy collapsed on the soccer field and was diagnosed with metastasizing osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that spread to his lungs.

Mom left her job to care for her children. Her athletic son’s leg was replaced, and he had four double lung surgeries. When Andie “hit the wall” financially, she contacted ASRL. Her physically fragile son encouraged her saying, “It never hurts to ask.”

ASRL responded immediately by paying Andie’s overdue rent, car insurance, car payments, and hotel accommodations during Jeremy’s most recent surgery to give Andie more time with her kids.

Help Andie go beyond the clock.

Andie, Lindsey & Jeremy

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There is a disabled mother with a five-year-old daughter receiving chemotherapy. Mackenzie has stage IV metastic rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue tumor. Her disease has progressed clinically. The tumor has grown. When Mackenzie developed new lesions, she had to leave her home to receive treatment from a sarcoma specialist.

Her Grandmother could not care for Mackenzie’s three-year-old brother while she is away from home. The family’s credit cards are completely maxed out. ASRL was able to step in and help pay utility and other household bills on which her parents had fallen behind, and paid for a last minute plane ticket in time for Mackenzie’s younger brother to join the family at her hospital bedside.

Help this family go beyond the clock.

Mom & Mackenzie


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Help A Mom Get to the Hospital" "

Sometimes the simplest thing -- like having enough money for bus fare -- can keep a father and child from getting to the hospital for the child's regular chemotherapy.

A gift of $10 can pay bus fare for Mom and his child to get to and from the hospital, ensuring that the child receives critical medical treatment. When your child is seriously ill, it is stressful enough. Help relieve a family's financial burden so that Mom can focus on his son’s healing.

Buy a Gift Card For Cell Phone Minutes, Gas, Food

When a child is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, family finances get stressed fast. If mom quits her job to stay with the sick child, and dad is on disability, where will the money come from? Even the simplest purchases -- for food, diapers, gas, medicine -- can overwhelm a family struggling to care for a child with a terminal or catastrophic illness.

Your gift card will help a kind neighbor or relative go shopping for this family in need. Your gift will help to ease their financial burdens, so that the parents can focus on the child’s healing.

Buy Groceries When a Child is Sick"

When a child is catastrophically ill, things happen fast. Medical bills add up quickly. It's expensive to travel to the hospital, and soon enough the money runs out. It's stressful enough to have a child with a catastrophic illness. Having to worry about how to feed siblings and keep gas in the car can add even more stress. Your gift will feed a sick child's family, softening a family's burden and letting Mom focus on caring for the child with a life threatening illness. Just knowing that he can buy groceries and feed his family helps a parent cope better during a traumatic time.

Bring Someone Else In to Help a Mom

When a child is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, life changes in an instant. A single mom might quit his job to be at the hospital with his child, but who will help out the siblings at home? Siblings need a loving parent now more than ever.

Your gift will pay for transportation for a grandparent to visit and care for siblings. Your gift will help with gas, a long distance bus ticket, or plane fare. Not only will your gift give siblings their loving grandparent during this fragile time, it will give Mom peace of mind knowing that he can focus on his sick child's healing.

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The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation was created in the wake of founder Valerie Sobel’s loss of her teenage son Andre from an inoperable brain tumor. She realized that it had been a blessing that she was able to care for her son and not worry about finances and other resources. Upon discovering that many single parents with critically-‐ill children are forced to chose between working to provide basic needs and staying with their terminally ill child, she created the foundation to relieve this financial and emotional burden.

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation (a 501(c)(3) public charity) provides emergency assistance within 24 hours to single caregivers of children with catastrophic or life threatening illnesses who are in financial crises. Working in partnership with 40 pediatric hospitals nationally, we have helped over 10,200 family members in the past nine years. Without ASRL’s support, many children with life threatening illnesses would be facing pain, treatments, fear, and at times, even their death, without a parent by their side.

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