Hammonton Cancer Foundation raises funds with annual walk
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
WALK, from Page 1
inside Hammonton Middle School
(HMS) after being held outdoors
on the track of HMS’s William t.
Capella field in recent years.
the “Walk for Our Neighbors”
is one of the HCf’s two principal
fundraising events along with its
“Helping Our Neighbors Dinner”
that takes place in the fall.
Collectively, the events raise an
average of more than $40,000 per
year, according to HCf President
David Mauriello. the money
raised by the HCf is distributed to
local cancer patients in need of
financial assistance via the South
Jersey Cancer fund (SJCf), a
Brigantine-based
nonprofit
organization that has been
providing aid to atlantic, Cape
May and Cumberland County
cancer patients and their families
since 1964.
the HCf has been a sponsor
and donor to the SJCf for more
than a decade, and have donated
nearly $300,000 to the fund during
that period. SJCf treasurer anne
Breyer, who participated in the
“Walk for Our Neighbors” for the
second consecutive year, said the
Hammonton community has
continually been a key contributor
to the SJCf’s yearly cash balance,
which
last
year
totaled
approximately $130,000 and was
used to support about 400 patients
in southern New Jersey.
“What they do is amazing. the
residents of Hammonton are very
generous … We wouldn’t survive
without them,” Breyer said.
Breyer said Hammontonians’
shared understanding of the
pervasive, overwhelming and far-
too-common effects that cancer
has on a majority of families is the
primary source of the widespread
generosity they have shown the
SJCf.
“they can relate to it. they
know that they have family
members who had cancer and
maybe they needed help …
Someone always needs help, so
they’re willing to give money
towards it,” Breyer said.
Mauriello
personally
experienced cancer’s effects when
he was diagnosed with the disease
in 1993. He is now 24 years
cancer-free, but said the altruistic
support of cancer patients is a
virtue that will always resonate
with him.
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“it’s hugely important to me. i
knew from when i went through it
that it was going to be a part of my
life from then on because i know
how it was for me. i was fortunate
enough to have a wonderful family
that supported me—and i had a
terrific job and a terrific work
family—and it was still very
difficult. So, i know that people
need the things that we do,”
Mauriello said.
the HCf assembled a large
group of participants during the
“Walk for Our Neighbors,” many
of whom are cancer survivors.
Prior to this year’s walk
commencing,
a
survivor’s
rece