Phil's Friends Hope Center

Lets make care packages that will be sent to cancer patients in hospitals. We have been here before when they were located in Roselle but now they have moved to Addison. This has always been a fun and meaningful event for us so I hope you will join us.

Once you RSVP yes you will need to fill out on online waiver form and sign up form. I will post the links when I receive them.

"Phil Zielke was diagnosed with Stage 4B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2004. Phil’s Friends began supporting others because of the support he himself had received. In June of 2009, Phil left teaching to devote his time fully to building the organization. Within a few months the organization moved out of Phil's basement and into the community to establish the Phil’s Friends Hope Center. Today, Phil’s Friends engages thousands of volunteers, who in turn, enable the organization to support hundreds of thousands of our friends with cancer across the United States through care packages, Cards of Hope, hospital visits, and prayer."

Volunteer activities include:

• Stenciling & coloring the outside of the care package box
• Completing cards of hope, which are mailed monthly
• Packing care packages, which are shipped weekly

Here is the link for donations for the care packages and if you are creative and like to make things there are instructions on how to make much needed blankets:
[Care Package Needs Blanket Instructions.pdf](https://1drv.ms/b/c/8c523d9fe4651623/EaP9kk-UjyVDqhk0YcItLfMBJXdYbvVpiyVgCApLAWAUSQ?e=TS4qVC)

Here is the link for their parking map:
[Addison Parking Map.pdf](https://1drv.ms/b/c/8c523d9fe4651623/ESta-bb3v7RNqXaWiKQ94MsBn5T6pnFhdTHsA4Y5_Yyohw?e=o5mRMs)

Here is their website for more information:
philsfriends.org

Remember that cancer patients are immunocompromised and must have donations that are new and unused. Please check the list in the link above if you want to donate anything. They can only accept the things on the list. In the email the biggest needs right now are travel lotions (5oz), women's journals, blankets and Biotene dry mouth oral rinse (6 oz). But of course they will be happy with any donation off their list to put in the care packages.

See you there!