St. Jude's Hospital Problem

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What would life be like if there were no more children to play with as a family? St. Jude’s hospital is definitely the way to go if your child has cancer or another serious disease, they always welcome everyone with open arms. The greatest problem that I see facing society today are kids or babies that are sick and disabled. In order to solve this problem I plan on creating more research programs in my future, volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and donate to St. Jude’s hospital. When I grow up in the near future I want to create more research programs that will help out doctors finding cancer in an earlier stage rather than a later stage. I want to make more physical training programs and lower the price cost for parents who can hardly afford medical bills for their children that have muscle disorder or disease. Also, I want to create more cancer research programs so that doctors can have more modernized computers and have access to 3D printers so they are able to see the tumors more visibly. I also want to make a program of where doctors are able to discover malignant tumors or cancerous cells in children earlier so they can have more time to get the tumor out since the …show more content…

Jude’s hospital. When I was about 8 or 9 years old, my number one Christmas present was to donate to St. Jude’s hospital and that’s what I want to do every year from now on, I want to donate about 5,000 dollars to help benefit St. Jude’s research programs. I also want to make a lemonade stand so I can earn money for St. Jude’s hospital. Finally, I want to buy and give gifts to little kids who are not able to afford something that they really want for their birthdays or Christmas, my mom really inspired me to want to do this because she did something similar when she bought gifts for these three girls who wanted Christmas presents but were not able to afford many presents for themselves and their

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