Please take a moment to support Journey 4 a Cure?

I don’t normally do posts where I’m begging for votes or tweets, but this one I could not overlook.

It’s not for me, it’s for an organization that was was started by the Carmical family after they lost their sweet little Declan to cancer. He was just shy of his first birthday and although he fought hard until the very end, he did not make it. He was one of 4 boys and I just cannot even imagine the heartache his family has gone through. They have managed to turn their tragedy into something good for other kids by starting Journey 4 a Cure.

Journey 4 a cure needs your help in winning a major fund raising opportunity! The Vivint Gives Back project is giving away 1.25 million to a charity. Why should you vote for Journey 4 a Cure?

Did you know….

- Every day 46 children are diagnosed with cancer

- Every 4 hours a child dies from cancer, 6 children a day, more than 2,000 a year

- 1 in 300 children under the age of 20 will be diagnosed with cancer, 1 in 5 of those children will die, and 3 in 5 will have long term side effects from the current treatments that were developed to fight adult cancers — cut, burn and poison

- Cancer is the #1 disease related killer of children.

- Approximately 40,000 families in the U.S. are battling pediatric cancer today.

- 1 new drug has been approved to treat cancer by the FDA in the last 30 years.

- There is research on the horizon, but funding is scarce

- The American Cancer Society gave less than $0.003 for every dollar they collected to pediatric cancer research in 2009 — their focus is not on children.

- At the current rate of funding, it will take 100 years to get treatments, drugs and cures to our children.

100 YEARS!?

That is just not acceptable! Please, please consider taking a second or two out of your day to vote for them! (you can vote every day)

Here is the link to their voting page: http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/1262

You can also ‘like’ Journey 4 a Cure on Facebook here.

Please give your babies and children an extra hug and kiss tonight. Life is just too short gang!