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Families Affected By Cancer Get Free Baby-Sitting Help

Number of Participants: 1

Hours Donated: 170

Value of Time Served: $1,437

Families affected by cancer get free baby-sitting help

Event By: Team Up 4 Community

Event Type: Health & Medicine

Sport: Basketball

Date: January 20, 2015

Location:
815 Convent Road Syosset
New York 11791, United States

About:

A junior at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset is helping to assist local families dealing with cancer.

Junior Elizabeth Stiles of Woodbury has launched an organization designed to create a network of high school students who offer free child-care services to cancer-affected families that apply for the help.

The organization — named “Helping Hand Babysitting” — started over the summer with 30 volunteers from Our Lady of Mercy who performed more than 170 hours of service for seven families. Stiles, 17, said she came up with the idea after baby-sitting and doing errands a few years ago for a neighbor, one of whose children was being treated for leukemia.

“It started out as a seed of an idea,” Stiles said. “Sometimes, you don’t realize how much people right here on Long Island are suffering.”

Volunteers indicate their availability and how far they can travel, so they can be paired with compatible families. To identify families, Stiles teamed up with CancerCare in Woodbury. She also has passed out fliers at local cancer walks.

Stiles is captain of the varsity basketball team and a member of Math Club, Leaders Club, Ambassadors Club, Craft Club and Mercy Action, a community service club.

-Michael R. Ebert

Congratulations, Elizabeth! We are proud of you and all the Helping Hand babysitters!

http://www.olma.org/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=336255&id=0

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