October 29, 2018
Dear Rev. El Basha,
We would like to extend our most heartfelt gratitude for Our Lady of Lebanon $10,000 donation to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. No goods or services were exchanged for donation. The impact of your generous commitment extends far beyond the event itself. Your support will help fund groundbreaking research, the development of lifesaving treatments, and the restoration of hope for families everywhere as they face childhood cancer.
Treatments invented at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since the hospital first opened more than 50 years ago. That's why doctor often send their toughest cases to St. Jude - because we have the world's best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancer.
It is an exciting time at St. Jude with the recent news of the St. Jude Cloud - an online data-sharing and collaboration platform that provides researchers access to the world's largest public repository of pediatric cancer genomic data. In addition, St. Jude was named the World Health Organization's first collaborating center for childhood cancer. Moving our research forward continues to be a priority, and we are excited to share we recently broke ground on a $412-million advanced research center, which will cultivate transformative research, collaboration and attract scientists and clinicians to St. Jude.
These exciting milestones would not be possible without the support from church communities like Our Lady of Lebanon. Thank you again, from the bottoms of our hearts. It is our sincere hope that you will continue to inspire our bold mission: Finding Cures. Saving children. Supporters like you are a shining example of what it means to be a part of something bigger. You are truly a beacon of hope.
Again, we are very grateful for your partication as a Donation Sponsor.
Thank you,
Trumaine Thomas
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Dear Friends of St. Jude,
I'm so grateful for your gift of $10,000 in October 2018 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Gifts like yours support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude and touch the lives of so many children...like 8 year-old Liliana.
Liliana loves arts and crafts, dancing and watching movies. When she began to develop large bruises in odd places, her mom made an appointment with their local pediatrician. Results from blood tests came back and revealed that Liliana had a rare blood disorder that prevented her bone marrow from producing enough blood cells. She needed drastic medical intervention to save her life, and she and her family were referred to St. Jude right away.
At St. Jude, Liliana received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Thankfully, because of the generosity of friends like you, her family will never receive a bill from St. Jude for anything -- not for treatment, travel, housing, or food -- because we believe all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
Liliana's family is so grateful for the support of friends like you. Her mom sad, "I'd heard of St. Jude and I'd heard it was a wonderful hospital, but I never realized how much they do for people, and it's just been incredible. So, we've loved it here. It's home away from home."
Thank you for being such a devoted friend to St. Jude kids like Liliana.
Very truly yours,
Richard C. Shadyac Jr.