It’s your last chance to support Rebecca’s holiday wish. We have an incredibly generous donor who is matching donations up to $21,000 to symbolize that we are wrapping up the year 2021. That means, for every dollar raised up to $21,000, Rebecca’s Wish has a total of $42,000 to give to our hospitalized pancreas children. And that, is an unexpected miracle for our families in need!
The photo of Rebecca Taylor, Founder of Rebecca’s Wish, shows her sitting next to a mound of Christmas gifts, none of them being hers. Instead, as has been the case for the last ten years, Rebecca has played Santa and delivered presents and checks to children who are hospitalized with pancreatitis over the holiday season. We call this initiative the Hospital Holly Campaign.
Your support for this holiday initiative has been amazing, and although we met our original fundraising goal, we are still accepting donations to help these children throughout the year.
This fundraising campaign ends on January 1st. We hope you will get behind these children and their families, who very much need your help.
We will donate scholarships ranging from $1,000 – $5,000 to families of children with pancreatitis who face large medical expenses, bills for their hotel and meals, and lost wages due to lengthy hospital stays. The need for these scholarships is profound! Some families are unable to pay for the gas to transport their child to a hospital for necessary surgical procedures. Another family sold their only car because they needed the money to pay for their child’s care. Rebecca’s Wish regularly gifts scholarships over the course of the year to children with pediatric pancreatitis, but we anticipate more families needing our help over the holidays.
Many of these families are struggling with the extreme costs of long-term hospitalization because of pancreatitis, and then on top of those expenses, there are hardships of Covid that are profoundly hurting the families we are trying to help.
