Any and all Wristband Bros blogs relating to non-profits.
It’s easy to take presents, a cake, and loads of friends and family singing happy birthday for granted. If that was your childhood, perhaps you just assume it’s everyone’s childhood. But that’s simply not the case. For many children growing up in difficult financial situations, a grand birthday party just isn’t in the cards.
Watch the video on ABC 13’s website here.
Has there ever been a bigger no-brainer on planet Earth than Second Servings of Houston?
I wanted to share this video from The Syrian Fund. It’s a non-profit organization started by New Yorker’s Lexi Shereshewsky and Demetri Blaisdell. In a time of intense division both here and abroad, the couple is striving to make a difference in the refugee crisis effecting Syria.
Ryan Weimer started Magic Wheelchair after an awesome experience with his own son, Keaton. Keaton was diagnosed at a very early age with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a form of Muscular Dystrophy that has left him in a wheelchair. When asked by his father what he’d like to be for Halloween, the answer came easily: A pirate. After some careful consideration, Ryan came to the conclusion that he’d be turning Keaton’s wheelchair into a pirate ship. This original costume idea was the spark that lit the Magic Wheelchair fire:
