Helping Families Handle Cancer hosted its Third Annual Mother’s Day Tea at the Sundance Lake Resident Association.
Eighty-plus Moms and their families enjoyed an old-fashioned High Tea. Proceeds of this event benefit the Helping Families Handle Cancer Care Program.
After being diagnosed with childhood cancer at the age 13 months old, and battling cancer until she was six, 33-year-old Carie Stock founded Helping Families Handle Cancer (HFHC). This charity helps families with the expenses that come along with having a child battling cancer at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Special Announcement – Helping Families Handle Cancer accepted a $25,000 check from the Olympia Charitable Foundation. After seeing the impact of their $5,000 donation in 2018, the Olympia Charitable Foundation wanted to step up and help cancer families in a big way.
“I always had a hard time deciding what to surprise my Mom with on Mother’s Day. Always looking for the perfect gift, I realized that the only thing my Mom would truly want on Mother’s Day is to spend time with our family. Rather than taking my Mom to the same boring brunch that is hard to get reservations for, I thought, what about hosting a Mother’s Day Tea?” said Carie Stock, founder and executive director of Helping Families Handle Cancer. “As a little girl, we dreamed of sipping on tea and having miniature treats. What a great outing for Calgary families this Mother’s Day. While sipping on tea and eating treats, participants will be helping less fortunate families who have a child battling cancer.”
