Vote for CDH Babies!!!!
CHERUBS is in the Vivint Gives Back Contest on Facebook!
June 14 - August 27, 20011
Vote for CHERUBS every day to help the babies!
Click here to vote now!
CHERUBS is participating the Vivint Gives Back Contest on Facebook and we need your votes! How to vote:
1. Go to http://www.voteforcdh.org/
2. Log in through Facebook and vote
3. Repeat daily through August 27, 2011
If you're having
troubles with the voting and endorsing process (you're getting an error
telling you to like the page first repeatedly), do the following:
1. On Facebook, go to Account --> Privacy settings2. In the privacy settings page you should see a 'Connecting on Facebook' section. click 'View Settings'.
3. Set 'See your likes, activities, and other connections' to 'everyone'.
This process lets the website see that you have liked the Vivint page, and you will then stop receiving this error.
What Will $250,000 Be Used For?
Should CHERUBS win the Vivint Gives Back contest, money won would go to:
$145,000 for CDH Research
$95,000 for CDH Support
- $10,000 to help sponsor a CDH patient, baby Rhett,
who is currently in an orphanage in the Ukraine. We have several
families who want to adopt him and bring him to the U.S.
- $25,000 for Financial Help for families to help cover travel costs to and from the hospital
- $30,000 for support services
(support forums, web sites, mailings, newsletters, volunteer software,
toll-free number, adopt a hospital kits and much more). All
services to families are always FREE.
- $5,000 for local member get-togethers around the country
- $10,000 to CDH HOPE Totebag care packages for newborn and expectant babies diagnosed with CDH
- $10,000 to reinstate new member welcome packages
- $5,000 to scholarship fund for CDH survivors and siblings
$10,000 for CDH Awareness
- $1500 for CDH Awareness Bracelets for families
- $1500 for CDH Awareness Ribbons for families
- $1500 for CDH Awareness Brochures
- $500 for Balloons for Memorial & Awareness Releases
- $1000 for Save the Cherubs Campaign Wings
- $1000 for Marching in Town Parades
- $3000 for CDH Awareness Billboards & Posters
Learn about our Save the Cherubs Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Campaign in our new video:
We have many new posters to add and will do so during the next couple of weeks. We are looking for specific types of STC photos right now, if you can help:
Maternity shots
Newborn cherub shots
Hospital shots
Easter shots
Summer shots
School sjots
Sports shots
We are selling Save the Cherubs holiday cards this year!!!!
But we need your photos!!! Grab / order some wings and take your cherubs (or siblings and a photo of your cherub) and go early to visit Santa, see the mall decorations, decorate a tree or a visit a Christmas shop. Photos needed by November 15th!
A few things...
- You can order wings at http://www.savethecherubs.org
- It's best to wear bright clothing to contrast with the wings
- Photos must be "candid" (no looking straight at the camera) - our campaign is about cherubs in every day life
- We must have your model paperwork in! Paperwork can be found at http://www.savethecherubs.org
Possible photo opportunities....
- Decorating a Christmas tree
- Hanging a wreath
- Lighting a menorah
- Caroling
- Visiting Santa
- Riding in a holiday train
- Shopping in the mall (decorating for Christmas)
- Browsing in a Christmas shop
- Opening presents
- Sledding
- Decorating at the cemetary
The point is to show the holiday spirit through a child's eyes... a cherub's eyes.
ALL cherubs can participate! Even non-survivors (through their siblings or cousins and by including their photo somewhere in the picture. A sibling/cousin can wear wings and represent your cherub) and expectant cherubs.
ALL submitted photos will be included and sold through our shop on Cafepress.com
Cards will be available to purchase by November 20th! What a great way to raise CDH awareness!!!!
We also need photos for our Save the Cherubs calendar for November (Thanksgiving, leaves, football or something similar), December, March and April.
Save the Cherubs
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Campaign
Cherubs are everywhere. They are your next door neighbor's new baby. The little girl on the swingset at the park. The teenager that sits behind your son in high school geometry class. The person behind you in the grocery store line. Their scars are hidden under clothes, their stories a bit sad and taboo to talk about - so the miracles are not seen with the naked eye and you have probably mistaken a cherub for a "normal" person many times. But they are there; walking miracles with invisible wings. And missing babies that belong to the grieving parents who you don't see grieve; your local bank teller, the man who held a door for you at the gas station, the old woman who drove the car in front of you at the stop light this morning. Cherubs are everywhere.
Unless you have been affected personally by CDH, you probably have never heard of it. The mission of "Save the Cherubs" is to make Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia a phrase everyone knows how to say and everyone knows what it means. By raising awareness, we hope to raise research funds to save these babies - Save the Cherubs.
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia occurs when the diaphragm fails to fully form, allowing abdominal organs into the chest cavity and preventing lung growth. Babies born with CDH often endure long hospitalizations and other complications such as pulmonary hypertension, infections, feeding issues, asthma and temporary developmental delay. Some babies develop worse complications and sadly, 50% of babies born with CDH do not survive. The cause of CDH is not known.
Cherubs are people who were born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, a severe and often fatal birth defect that occurs as often as Cystic Fibrosis and Spina Bifida. Every 10 minutes a baby is born with CDH - adding up to over half a million babies since 2000. Yet, CDH is given very little media attention, virtually no research money and until CHERUBS came along in 1995 there was no information and no support for families of babies diagnosed with CDH. We have no national telethons, no large corporate sponsorships. We have been struggling for years to bring attention to CDH and now, we are going to do so on a national level.
For 15 years, cherubs have been the awareness symbol of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). Through this project, families around the world are working with CHERUBS, photographers and the media to raise CDH awareness in a unique and striking photo and marketing campaign, which we hope will take your breath away and make you want to learn more about CDH and how you can help save these children.
CHERUBS - The Association of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Research, Awareness and Support was founded in 1995 to give hope and information to families of children affected by Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). We are a 501(c)III non-profit global CDH organization with members in 38 countries. Run solely by volunteers and donations, CHERUBS strives to allow families to have free access to information materials, support services, awareness projects and to make a CDH connection with other families going through the same ordeal. We are just a grassroots organization of families working hard to make a difference and trying to give Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness wings to take flight.
CHERUBS is fighting hard to search for the cause, prevention and best treatments of CDH. We invite you to help us to help these families and to help Save The Cherubs.
The models for this photo shoot are Oz's amazing parents Kendrah Kidd and Chris Ward!
Thank you to Oz for not giving your mom any trouble during the hot photo shoot and thank you Kendrah and Chris for being such good sports and so willing to help other CDH families even while you're in the midst of your own CDH journey!
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