Welcome to the Seventh Annual Rockville Centre St Baldrick's celebration!!! We are really looking forward to having a lot of fun this year as we shave our way to a cure.
If you have participated in prior events, we want to thank you. Last year despite the economic times, we raised over $190,000 in Rockville Centre and over $16.5M worldwide. So Thank you seems inadequate.
If you are new to St Baldrick's, we welcome your joining our efforts to shave a way to cure childhood cancer in 2010!!!
Unfortunately, cancer does not recede in a recession. Childhood cancer continues to kill more children each year then Aids, Cystic Fibrosis, Juvenile Diabetes and Congenital defects combined. This year over 160,000 children worldwide will be diagnosed with a form of Childhood Cancer. We need to find a cure!
This year we have set our Rockville Centre fund raising goal at $200,000. The overall goal for the St Baldrick's Foundation for 2010 is $20,000,000 worldwide. These funds will be used to fund life saving research, improve treatment protocols and allow more children to have access to clinical trials.
They also directly endow the St Baldrick's Fellowship & Scholar Programs. Together these program fund the training and education of the next generation of Childhood Oncologists. Only the best candidates are selected, ensuring that all children will have caring doctors and research scientists well into the future.
Once again our family-fun event will be held in the St. Agnes Parish Center shortly after the end of the Rockville Centre St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 20th, 2010. If you plan on shaving please convince a friend to join you. If you plan on attending, bring a friend. Please spread the word on St Baldrick's!!
We will be communicating more details as we get closer to the event. So Please check our site frequently.
We look forward to seeing you there and thank you for your continued support ...
Dan, John & John
