For Immediate Release

NORTH SALEM, NY— Help Friends of Karen deliver gifts and smiles for the holidays! Nearly 900 Holiday Wish Lists need to be filled this year. Join us in bringing joy to a critically ill child and their siblings by making sure their wishes come true this holiday season.

What better way to celebrate the holiday spirit than by giving to a child?

Friends of Karen supports families caring for a child with cancer or another life-threatening illness. When a child is in treatment for months, there’s no time or resources for parents to shop or even think about gifts. Even in a health crisis, children should be able to enjoy the holidays.  Through Friends of Karen, parents send us their children’s wish lists and then we reach out to the community for help to make the children’s dreams come true.

Here is how you can help:

• Choose to shop to fill the wish list of one child or several children, each wish list is valued at $100.
• Make a donation and we will do the shopping for you.
• Send a grocery gift card of $50 or more to ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Target, Walmart, Visa, or MasterCard so a family can buy groceries for their holiday meal.

Get involved:
You can make a donation online or fill the wish list of one or more children by visiting our website at friendsofkaren.org or contact Allisonwatson@friendsofkaren.org, 914-617-4054. 

Send checks and gifts to:

Friends of Karen

Holiday Adopt-a-Family
118 Titicus Road
North Salem NY 10560

Long Island donors please call:
631-473-1768 Ext. 903

About Friends of Karen: Friends of Karen, established in 1978, provides emotional, financial and advocacy support for children with a life-threatening illness and their families in order to help keep them stable, functioning, and able to cope. Friends of Karen serves families living in the New York tri-state region and offers its lifeline of support services at no cost to them so they have more time for what’s most important: each other. Friends of Karen has received top ratings from Charity Navigator, an independent organization that evaluates the financial efficiency and responsibility of all qualifying U.S. charities. Friends of Karen also meets the 20 Standards of Charity Accountability of the BBB of Metropolitan New York.

For more information, visit friendsofkaren.org or call (914) 277-4547.