Heart of Gold Winner - Princess Projects

Terri, Ava's Mommy who was featured in the Iowa Paper Article about congenital diaphragmatic hernia, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day and is helping Breath of Hope spread awareness was sought out by Princess Projects.

Terri was awarded the Heart of Gold Award!

Princess Projects Mission:

Our Mission ~~*~Giving Challenged Girls the Attitude of a Princess~*~Our goal is to honor girls who face challenges - With a Princess Party -Complete with their own tiara

What a wonderful reward for spreading Awareness!

Mason is our Miracle

And yet another Newspaper Article - on the front page in Rochester, New York!

Webster Post by Tori Uthe

Despina - this is wonderful and Mason is beautiful!

http://www.mpnnow.com/towns/webster/x1295940937

Thank you Tori Uthe for reporting on this Miracle!

A Cause for Caden

Huntsville, Alabama Times Article by Steve Doyle

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1200996948

And the Cause? What else?

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia AwarenessTM!

Jennifer this was absolutely awesome and Steve Doyle - you wrote a fantastic article!

Keeping Hope Strong - Update - Rochester, New York

If anyone is in this area, knows someone that may be in the area of Rochester, New York please consider going to this Event. Despina (Mason's Mommy) has worked extremely hard to make this absolutely fabulous!

www.keepinghopestrong.org

Tickets are only $25 and it WILL BE a wonderful celebration of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness!

Please come join us - 4:00PM till...

JB Quimby's Public House

3529 Winton Rd. South, Rochester NY

585.272.9780

(located in the Win-Jeff Plaza)

Live Auction(7:00pm)
Raffles (all night!)
Live Music
Eat, Drink and Be Merry!

For more information contact Despina Mitchell at: despina@keepinghopestrong.org or 585.703.6088

A Rochester CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia) & Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong benefit event held by Keeping Hope Strong.

Mother Joins National Effort to Raise Awareness of Daughter's Birth Defect

Today, in Iowa there was an article in The Hawkye paper writen by Shawna Richtner which features one of the Breath of Hope Director's and her beautiful daughter.

http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/CDH_Day_011508

Absolutely Inspiring And Spreading Awareness!

Thank you Shawna Richtner - wonderful article!

JustMeAndE

One of our amazing members who was inspired by her precious son, Elijah sent me this and I had to share.

http://justmeande.weebly.com/index.html

Just beautiful Lyna!

Keeping Hope Strong

On February 9, 2007 there will be a fund raiser in Rochester, New York that will be huge and wonderful. Despina, Mason's Mommy has done an awesome job doing this!

A Rochester CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia) & Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong benefit event held by Keeping Hope Strong!

http://www.keepinghopestrong.org/

And the most ironic thing about this whole thing - I went to visit the Department Head at the University of Virginia's NICU yesterday and he came from Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong!

What a way to Keep Hope Strong and Promote Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awarness.

Update on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia AwarenessTM Day - The States!

Alabama
Connecticut
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Wisconsin

Pending - we have heard they will sign soon:

New Jersey
New York
Oregon
South Carolina
Virginia

Cities/Towns that have Proclaimed March 31 as Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day!

Charlotte, North Carolina
Schaumburg, Ill
Cincinnati, Ohio
Huntsville, AL

This is amazing - we started this in September - for those of you who sent in letters and have not heard yet - I encourage you all to contact them and see where it is in the process!

We also still need these states:

Alaska
California
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Washington
Washington DC
Wyoming