The Childhood Cancer Awareness Group of Coffee County announced Friday the organization recently received a $2,500 donation from America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund and directed by local farmers Ricky and Ben Smith. The donation will help the organization assist families with children suffering with childhood cancer by providing travel expense back and forth to medical appointments and by providing much needed financial assistance for the payment of necessary household expenses.
The Childhood Cancer Awareness Group of Coffee County is a local nonprofit founded by people who saw the financial, emotional, and spiritual needs of families enduring the efects of having a child diagnosed with cancer. The costs associated with this diagnosis are cheerfully provided by this group of nurturing volunteers.
For six years, America’s Farmers Grow Communities has collaboarated with farmers to donate over $22 million to more than 8,000 community organizations across rural America. Winning farmers will direct donations to nonprofits to help fight rural hunger, purchase lifesaving fire and EMS equipment, support agriculture youth leadership programs, buy much needed classroom resources, and more.
