Bottle drives across Alberta raise funds for children with cancer

In the first months of the pandemic, Albertans stepped up to help raise funds for Kids Cancer Care by collecting empties and holding bottle drives. Individuals lined up with truck loads and carloads of empties. Keeping things COVID-safe, they just popped open their trunks and Kids Cancer Care staff and volunteers, wearing PPE, grabbed their boxed and bagged empties. Funds raised went toward Kids Cancer Care’s online and COVID-adapted programs for children and families facing childhood cancer.

CTV

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-charity-strives-to-regain-lost-funding-through-city-wide-event-1.5336854

Medicine Hat News

Stories told, money raised as cancer fighter adds to legacy

What our families are saying

Before cancer, I was reserved and timid, but now look at me! Look at what I have been through and what I know I can do. Kids Cancer Care is helping to shape the person I am today.

- cancer survivor

What our families are saying

Kids Cancer Care has given us another family, one who understands what we are going through, a support system for when we are tired. And it gives us a chance to give back too.

- parent

What our families are saying

Cancer is scary. It changes the way you look at the world and how you feel about yourself. By being with other kids like me, I felt a new normal and I feel like I have a place in this world again.

- camper