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Dear Family and Friends,
One year ago this month, I was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata. In the months to follow, our family went on an emotional roller coaster ride. Through it all, we've had the support of our family members and friends to help us along the way. Thank you for always being there to encourage us! We also discovered an amazing non-profit organization called the Children's Alopecia Project (CAP for short). Maddie, the founders daughter, was also diagnosed with Alopecia at the age of 5 by the same doctor who diagnosed me, Dr. Miller out of the Hershey Medical Center.
We are so glad that we found the Children’s Alopecia Project (CAP). CAP is the only nonprofit specifically devoted to kids like me living with Alopecia, an incurable and unpredictable hair loss disease that makes my hair fall out. They call us CAP Kids, which is really cool. CAP helped me and my parents to find support and to meet other kids with alopecia, who know what it’s like to live without hair.
Our family has attended many CAP events in the area since I was diagnosed and this past summer we we to the Pocono Mountains for 4 days with CAP families from all across North America! Some of my best friends are my CAP friends! CAP has taught me so much about self esteem! Just a few months ago, I stood up in front of my ENTIRE school and taught all of the students and teachers about Alopecia! Ask my mommy to see the video that my teacher recorded! This summer, we will again be going to the Alopeciapalooza Camp - this time we'll be traveling to Ohio! I cannot wait to see all of my CAP friends again! They truly are family to us!
Could you make a donation to CAP and help me and other CAP Kids? Here’s what the money will be used for:
· CAP’s annual national conference, Alopeciapalooza, which focuses on empowering kids with alopecia and providing support for their families, this year being held at Camp Canadensis in the Poconos of PA
· CAP Kid Library Program through which CAP donates books about alopecia to the libraries of schools who have kids with alopecia
· Maintenance of award-winning website, childrensaslopeciaproject.org, with web chats for parents and teens
· National CAP Kid Connections Program through which CAP helps parents to find other parents whose children have alopecia in their local communities
· National CAP Kid Corresponders Program, a brand new pen pal program where we can reach out to other CAP Kids, especially those that are newly diagnosed with alopecia
· National Awareness Outreach Program through which CAP sends brochures to dermatologists, schools, and parents across the country in an effort to find and help more children living with alopecia
· CAP Kid Support group meetings and activities in PA, NY, MA, MO, and VA and 5 more states in 2010
Please help me to meet my goal of $500. If you would like to make a donation, please give it to my mommy, do so through this webpage, or mail it to CAP at PO Box 6036, Wyomissing, PA 19610 and put my name in the memo. All CAP Kid Appeal contributions are due February 15, 2011. CAP is a 501(c) (3) non-profit so all donations are tax-deductible. No donation is too small! If you haven't done so already, be sure to FAN CAP on Facebook! Jeff and Betsy, the CAP Founders are so good at updating the Facebook page with pictures and videos of all of the CAP events!
Thank you for your support of CAP and of all kids like me who are living with the effects of alopecia.
Sincerely,
Kayla Jane
Proud CAP Kid