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| The "Beads of Courage" is an outreach program for children with cancer. You can read more about the program, contact info, and much more on their website: www.beadsofcourage.org The program, "Beads of Courage", is designed to honor the challenging journey that these children take while experiencing cancer and related treatments. Through the program the children are given certain beads to represent certain procedures. The collection of beads become a symbol of their courage and serve to honor milestones they have achieved along their treatment path. Throughout their treatment they can use their "Beads of Courage" to visually show and tell family and friends of their experiences of courage! The Arizona Society of Glass Beadmakers, that I belong to, and the ISGB has been helping this program since it started out at the Tucson Arizona Medical Center. The program has now extended to the Phoenix Children's Hospital as well as starting out at many new hospitals world wide. Their goal is to continue to support and offer this program to many other hospitals around the world. There has been, and continues to be an out pouring of donations from the online bead making communities such as the I.S.G.B , Lampwork.etc, and the Wet Canvas forums, and the program has had many wonderful bead makers donate for this project! The program continues to be in need of bead donations from anyone who wants to donate. The program needs hand made Purple Hearts and Butterflies. These hearts need to be made on a 3/32" mandrel with the hole going horizontally through the heart. This provides easy stringing on to the child's collection of beads. If you would prefer making the hole vertically or working with a smaller size mandrel then please put the heart on a wire wrapped pendant with the wire pendant hole having the 3/32" inch hole in it. These purple heart beads are given to each child that finishes their cancer treatment program. They can also use glass butterflies. These beads are very special, as they are given to the parents or care givers of each child that has passed away. These can be as intricate or as simple as you would like and there are no specifications on size or holes for these beads. They can also use any glass beads or any other type of beads, (clay, plastic, metal, etc.), with 3/32" holes for easy stringing. These can be any shape or color, and these beads will be used for other special treatments the children go through, for "Milestone" beads. They can also use solid colored spacer beads with the 1/8" holes in them. If you are interested in donating your handmade or purchased beads, please send to: Beads of Courage, Inc. 5301 S. Houghton Road Tucson, Arizona 85747 Please include a name or business card along with your beads so they will know who it is from. If you would like to read more about specifications on bead donations, or how to donate cash, or even get a "Beads of Courage" program started in your area, please visit the "Beads of Courage" website: www.beadsofcourage.org If you have any other questions you can email Jean Baruch directly. She is the president and program director for "Beads of Courage". jbaruch@beadsofcourage.org |
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