Our Mission is to help families caring for children with life-threatening illnesses with our focus being on the family unity.
We Strive to lift families from life's complexities during this difficult time by providing emotional and financial support.

• Foundation Wrap-Up
• Fantastic Fireworks Fun
• Harvest Home Parade
• Hearts and Arts
• Let's Dance for the Heart of it
• Hannah - Update
• Ronald McDonald Dinner
• Jonah's Story
• If You Would Like to Volunteer or Contribute

 

Can you believe it is this time of year already… time for the kids to go back to school. This time of the year for us comes with a little bit of down time for us normally but with the arrival of Hannah and planning for everything that we have coming up in the Fall, I’d have to say it’s been quite busy. Having Hannah and her Mom, Pacita, here has been very rewarding and enlightening. She was a very, very sick little girl and it’s taken her a little longer than normal to get out of the hospital but we are making progress. We appreciate the prayers, the cards people have sent and the phone cards for this family to stay connected to their family back in the Philippines.

We have an exciting Fall coming up with our Foundation and we hope that you will be able to participate in some of our events we have planned including the Fireworks Dinner, the Hearts and Arts –a scrapbooking event that we are teaming up with Art Machine to host and our Let’s Dance for the Heart of It! where we earmark our funds raised for our Healing the World’s Hearts Program. Our hopes for this program is to bring a child from within the United States to Cincinnati Children’s for the next open-heart surgery that we fund.

With our fundraising events we have many needs and if you don’t mind, I am requesting your support and guidance in helping us to make these events a financial success. If you could help us with sponsorships, with promoting these events and even with your participation at the events, we would greatly appreciate it. We’d be happy to sit down and meet with you to go over our sponsorship proposals or send these to you electronically. Everyone associated with the Aubrey Rose Foundation volunteers their time and efforts and because of this, no one receives any compensation and so that allows us the opportunity to put just about everything (minus expenses of course) towards helping children and their families.

On a personal note, Jerry and I got to get away for vacation and relax a little and now we’re getting ready to take Spencer to Eastern Kentucky University for his sophomore year of school. Carly will be a senior at University of Cincinnati and she got a good check-up at the cardiologist a couple of weeks ago. We hope all of you out there who are getting their kids back to school have a smooth transition with getting back in to the routine! As always, we wish you much happiness and especially good health!

Nancy

Healing the World's Hearts - Hannah Recap

Hannah had her surgery on Tuesday, August 5th. This was desperately needed as her pulmonary valve was only open a pinpoint. The surgeon was able to get that open fully but that didn’t come easy. This hasn’t been the easiest of a recovery for Hannah. She has had a rather rough time of it but was finally moved from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit after 6 days. She had a miserable night on Monday and they did a chest x-ray and found out that she has fluid around her heart. She had to have a chest tube inserted to drain this.

This is not really normal and so that has delayed her getting out of the hospital and I know her Mom is getting a little concerned about the ability to return home on their scheduled flight which leaves on Sunday, August 24. If they do not leave on the 24th, we cannot secure a flight out until October! The Philippines where Hannah is from, is close to China where the Olympics are being held, so September is not an option. That’s a long, long time to be away from the rest of their family so please say a prayer that Hannah recovers quickly and can tolerate the long flight back safely, whenever that flight will be. Click here for the day by day story.

The "Healing the World's Hearts" program was developed by Aubrey's Foundation with help from Cincinnati Children's Hospital doctors, surgeons and corporate support to provide "simple" heart procedures to sick children in the U.S. and developing countries around the world. We say "simple" heart procedures because these are surgeries which can be performed in the U.S. that can SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE letting them go back home to live a healthy and productive life without follow-up cardiac procedures.

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Ronald McDonald Dinner

There was a lot of monkeying around on Saturday, July 26! This special themed dinner, "It's Time to Monkey Around!" attracted a packed House including Hannah and her Mom Pacita along with a few families whom we've gotten to know through our different functions at the House including a beautiful girl named Taylor and a very helpful boy named Jeremy! Everyone seemed to enjoy the inflatable monkeys hanging from the ceiling and the monkey hats that we had for crafts.

It's great to see the dining room packed and what's even better is all of the smiles that come from the families who get to enjoy our dinners. Even our many dedicated volunteers who come to help us put on this event are smiling because they know these dinners are priceless. If you would ever like to join in and help us with our themed dinner parties, please send an email to Nancy@aubreyrose.org.

Jonah will be turning 10 years old while he is in Minnesota getting a check up from his doctors. Jonah was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at 11 days old. Jonah suffers from typical CF symptoms and receives daily treatments for his lung/respiratory condition. He has had part of his colon removed, has an ileostomy bag, had his pancreas removed and had an auto-islet cell transplant. He is also suffering now with liver trouble and his parents are seeking the proper treatment for this. And you think you have problems!!! Jonah is an amazing kid with such a great attitude!!! Click here to read about how the Aubrey Rose Foundation helped Jonah and his family.

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VOLUNTEER
Click here to send Nancy a message about volunteering for one of our many different events.

DONATE ONLINE
Click here to donate to The Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation and put smiles on the faces of families and siblings caring for seriously ill children.

DONATE BY PHONE
Call Nancy or Jerry Hollenkamp, Foundation Founders:
(513) 265-5801

DONATE BY MAIL
Send your contribution to:
Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation
c/o 4480 Oakville Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45211

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