Patches of Light

Each year, thousands of children across America are diagnosed with life-threatening, life-changing and often-times fatal illnesses. Cancer, heart defects, muscular dystrophy, meningitis, life-saving organ transplantation, AIDS/HIV and premature births are just a few of the wide variety of maladies facing todays children. Research is constantly generating new paths of treatment and therapy and will hopefully one day be able to ensure our children a world of carefree days and dream-filled nights.

Unfortunately, that day is not yet here. In the mean time, many families with critically and terminally ill children are being inundated with the high costs of medical bills, traveling expenses, parking fees, dining expenses and more. Many of the families have one or more parent on an unpaid leave and find they are unable to pay for even the basic necessities of everyday life. When there is no viable income, there can only be a detrimental outcome.

Our mission at Patches of Light is to assist families with critically and terminally ill children so that they may remain together during hospitalizations and treatments. Our funding is used to pay for past due mortgages, rent, and utilities. We provide phone cards, gas cards, grocery cards and parking tokens. Many parents do not even have the comfort of knowing whether they can make it to the hospital on a daily basis.

Our organization pays for auto repairs, housing for long distance care, airline tickets, Ronald McDonald House fees and much more.

Patches of Light has assisted families from Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, New York, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and California. We have even helped families receiving treatment in the United States from Africa, England, and Palestine.

If your contribution paid for just one cab ride, gas card, or parking token, you would have provided a gift that is immeasurable: You would have provided a child time with his/her parent during a difficult situation.
If your contribution paid for the meal of a parent or family member staying with their child, you would have perhaps taken away the concern that they may have to choose between eating and paying for parking.
If your contribution paid for an outstanding utility, a late mortgage, or purchased groceries for an already overwrought, financially-strained family, you would have given them the chance to sit with their child and enjoy the moment, not dwell on what they need to do to survive tomorrow!

If . . . there are so many circumstances, but only one you! Please help us bring a Patch of Light to a child's life!

100% of all proceeds benefit the families and children we assist!