Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Each year in the U.S. alone, 25,000 young people receive a cancer diagnosis and begin the fight of their lives. This project supports free distribution of Re-Mission to these kids at a time when they need it most.

Project Message

I came into the hospital with a big shopping bag full of games. I gave them to all of the nurses and they were gone within the week because every kid wanted one. Thank you!
- Joshua Shiffman, M.D., Pediatric Oncologist, Stanford Children’s Hospital

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ellen LaPointe,
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
1991 Broadway Street
Suite 136
Redwood City, CA, California 94063-1957
United States
650-569-5900
Email:

Project Sponsor

Karin Hillhouse

Organization

Learn more about HopeLab and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Health.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 04, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 27, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Meet Saret.

By Ellen LaPointe - VP of Strategic Partnerships, September 04, 2008 06:31 PM

It was “love at first user test” when we HopeLab-ers met Saret. Direct input from our “customers” – young people themselves – is a key part of our product development work at HopeLab, and this summer Saret worked with us as an intern and participated in research we’re conducting to inform the next version of the Re-Mission video game.

Saret’s going to be a high school senior this fall. She’s 17, bright, loves learning about DNA and lounging by the poolside. Saret is also a cancer survivor. At age 16, she was diagnosed and treated for leukemia, a disease she didn’t even know was a type of cancer.

Saret tells us, “Being diagnosed with cancer was something I never thought would happen to me, especially at 16. Dealing with it was not easy because I was too weak. After my first round of chemo, I couldn’t even walk. And staying at the hospital for six months wasn’t the way I expected being 16 would be like.”

The HopeLab appeal for her? Saret wants to help people who are going through a similar experience that she went through, and she feels that HopeLab is doing “something that will actually help young people cope with cancer.”

Saret says, “I felt like I actually understood cancer and how chemo works [by playing Re-Mission]. Because when you’re at the hospital, the doctors try to explain it to you, but Re-Mission shows you exactly what happens when you are getting chemo.”

It’s young people like Saret, who help us create fun, effective products that appeal to our customers and that make positive change. Thanks Saret!
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