St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital is a non-profit organization to help kids with cancer or other diseases. St. Judes started on February 4th, 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. It now has eight affiliations located in Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma. “St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.” (stjude.org).
Their mission statement is, “The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family 's ability to pay.” (stjude.org). To make their mission statement happen, all their money comes from individual donations. With this money they then use it to research and pay the bills of the kids currently getting treated.
Danny Thomas started St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by showing the statue of St.
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This organization is improving society because “[t]he breakthroughs here have influenced treatments and saved children’s lives around the world.” (stjude.org). Supporting St. Jude helps them achieve their mission and research. St. Jude also shares the discoveries they find, allowing other doctors and scientist around the world to use this information to build on or save more people. Supporting them additionally allows families who are struggling with a sick kid to not have to worry about paying all the expensive medical bills. The author recommends supporting this organization because she think it’s a great way to find and better scientific research. Furthermore, it helps kids in need and parents who don’t have money. For example, an eight year old girl named Ainsley who had a swollen lymph node was referred to St. Jude because it wouldn’t go down. Ainsley and her family soon found out she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and went through 98 weeks of