Our
mission is "to eliminate the tragedies of cancer
in our life time. " We understand that great
advances have been made in cancer treatment over the
past several decades but that a lot still needs to be
done. Cancer causes more deaths in the United States
and Canada than any other disease and causes tragedies
and heartbreak in too many people's lives. Statistics
are, generally, not easy to put into perspective when
working with numbers in the hundreds of thousands, but
if all the cancer deaths occurring in the United States,
in the past year, were some how assigned to the residents
of Vermont or North Dakota, the population of those
states would cease to exist in that year. This
is a major problem, out weighing deaths caused by traffic
accidents, heart disease, and natural disasters. Cancer
does not discriminate against anyone for any reason.
It is an equal opportunity disease regardless of age,
gender, color, national origin, religion or sexual orientation.
To further
our mission we will:
1. Raise
Money. Identify the cancer research centers
that are doing cutting edge research, that have
the same goal as we do, "to find a cure,"
and to support them financially helping them achieve
their objectives.
2. Identify Pathways
to our Goal. Fight this battle at every
level. In the community, in the nation and worldwide.
We understand that there are many ways to achieve
our goal and we encourage creativity in determining
how it will best fit in
any particular area or region.
3. Educate Children.
Work to help young people to understand that smoking
is a very dangerous activity. The best way to
deal with this activity is never to start. Although
it may seem harmless at first, the longer you
do it the more difficult it is to quit.
4. Raise Awareness and
Develop Channels of Communication. Raise
the public consciousness about the importance of
fighting cancer and highlighting the positive growth
steps through traditional publicity and creative
use of the Internet, until we can finally announce
that a cure has been found.
" If the number of annual
deaths determines the formidability of an enemy,
we at quilt4cancer.org, believe that cancer is #
1.
