Amazon is celebrating its #1 ranking in customer satisfaction by the ACSI! Today, March 16, Amazon will donate 5% (10 times the usual donation rate) of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Mama Edna Project. Get started at smile.amazon.com/ch/46-3421573.
Andrew works full time as a retail manager for Sur La Table North Hills in Raleigh, NC. It is easiest to reach him via email since he can respond at any time of day or night as time allows and set up a time to actually speak to folks directly. It is our dream to raise enough money in the future to have a paid member of the team to actually hold office hours. Until then, we keep on keeping on, “paying it forward” once cancer victim at a time. Thanks for your support and understanding. We look forward to hearing from you.
Our email is themamaednaproject@gmail.com.
Do you shop on Amazon? Then log on to AmazonSmile and designate The Mama Edna Project as your charity. With each purchase, Amazon will donates a portion of the sale to us. Every dime adds up over the course of a year to help fund our “TOOL KIT” for a cancer victim in need. Please see our posts on the tool kit and donations. Thanks for your support.
http://smile.amazon.com/ch/46-3421573
An easy way to contribute while you SHOP! Do you shop on Amazon? If so, log on through AmazonSmile and designate The Mama Edna Project as your charity. We earn a small portion of the sale, but every dime adds up over the year. Here’s the link:
Anytime someone with cancer reaches out to us here at The Mama Edna Project, or when someone is referred to us who is in need of help, we put together a “tool kit” of items we have found to be very useful during the cancer treatment process. This tool kit has evolved since the first time we put it together for Mama Edna herself in January 2013 and it continues to evolve as we learn more about the process from the sources from which we draw information. This tool kit is both helpful in the realm of nutrition during the cancer treatment as well as educational and even morale boosting in many cases. In 2013, The Mama Edna Project assembled and donated 10 such tool kits for 10 different clients and helped other folks who actually could afford their own but needed direction about what was needed. Since then, we have assembled over 40 such kits. And in 2017, we are aiming high. These tool kits are quite pricey, so ongoing donations are truly needed to continue our work successfully. Listed below are the items we currently include in the cancer-fighting tool kit:
-One slow-juicer (average cost $400), usually Hurom or Breville
-A cookbook called The Juicing Bible by Pat Crocker ($27) or Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Juice ($22.50)
-A cookbook called The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen by Rebecca Katz ($35)
-A book called Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips by Kris Carr (for women, we are searching for an equivalent for men) ($12)
-Wheatgrass growing kit or wheatgrass delivered weekly ($10/week)
-Several bags of candied ginger (helps with nausea, replaces candy, rich in antioxidants) ($20)
-A jar of coconut oil (for cooking) ($12)
-A bottle of almond oil (used for cooking to raise pH as well as an ointment for radiation burns) ($15)
-Initial load of produce for in-home juicing demonstration and first week of juicing ($100)
-8 quarts of Magic Mineral Broth (MMB) that we make and freeze for clients (used to replace water when making soups, stews or anytime a clear liquid is used in cooking, MMB is supercharged with nutrients, also, clients who are having issues with eating enough, can use MMB as a hot drink to add vitamins to the diet) (ingredients approximately $40, production costs are just a labor of love from myself as part of the cause)
-Information packets that we collect from various cancer organizations and oncology/radiology offices ($2/copy)
-Organic, dark chocolate (70% or higher) to replace sugary desserts and adds beneficial vitamins and micronutrients ($5)
-High quality honey to replace processed sugar ($20)
-Almond flour for baking ($12)
-Small, inexpensive, random items that may make individuals more comfortable during cancer treatment (various) like lip balms, olive oil, skin care items, etc. ($30 or more)
As you can see, this list is both quite expansive AND expensive, totaling over $750 for just the initial visit, all at ZERO cost to the client who has both financial and medical need of this tool kit. Our goal in 2017 is to assist 15 to 20 new clients. We are also looking to expand our volunteer team and fundraising efforts to grow our reach. One new goal for 2017 is to begin a program that offers rides to cancer treatments. Many cancer victims either don’t drive or cannot drive in due to current medical issues. We will be looking for volunteers soon to help folks get to and from their appointments, help grocery shop, and run other errands for those who do not have help.
Please continue to like AND SHARE our Facebook page so we may reach our goal. Together, we can help folks have a better chance of recovery and a better quality of life while going through cancer treatments. We always encourage our clients to share as much of their healing stories as they feel comfortable in doing. We like to post these stories, along with pictures, to our website and social media platforms for everyone to read.
Together, we can kick cancer to the curb, one juice drink at a time.
Many thanks,
Andrew Klutz, Founder, President, and Juicer-in-Chief at The Mama Edna Project
Timothy McLamb, son of Mama Edna, Secretary and Assistant at The Mama Edna Project
Craig Eister, Vice President and Treasurer at The Mama Edna Project
#juicingforcancer
Our resolution in 2016? We want to bring in lots more funding, juicers and produce this year to help folks living with cancer in their efforts to kick cancer to the curb. If you can help, please reach out to us via email at themamaednaproject@gmail.com or via our Facebook page (just click the letter “f” in the circle at the top right of this page, even if you don’t use Facebook). Are you an organic farmer that may be able to donate small amounts to a cancer victim on a regular basis? Or are you a retailer that could provide a juicer? A grocery store that could provide gift cards to buy produce or other healthy food items? Please let us know if you can help.
Thanks to the ladies at Battling Life Together – BLT for helping us help a family living with cancer this Christmas season.
So glad we could team up with Battling Life Together – BLT to make a small Christmas miracle come true. Next year, we want to grow this giving and paying it forward exponentially. Merry Christmas!
We did it Battling Life Together and The Mama Edna Project with many of our supporters pulled off the Santa drop once more to make a family touched by Cancer have a brighter day and hopefully a positive New Year. Blessings to all. Please continue to pay it forward.
The Mama Edna Project and Battling Life Together – BLT, are teaming up this holiday season to help at least two families impacted by cancer. We would like to have all donations ready for the families by December 20th. Please read the post that follows. We need cash donations, Target gift cards or grocery store gift cards to meet some very specific needs for these families during the holidays. Please share this post as you can and please donate if you can.
December is upon us and The Mama Edna Project and Battling Life Together aka @LauraBrandiJulie are joining forces this year to provide for a couple of families who are battling Cancer. Together We Can! Together we Will… Make a difference.
We would like to come together as we have in the past and share some love and compassion for these families to remind them they are Never Alone. We would prefer to receive Gift Cards or monetary donations for locations such as Target, Four Seasons’ Mall, Sears, even grocery stores or food chains; locations where the families can make purchases to suit the needs of each family member. These families can really benefit from our help.
If you can help please reach out to us or someone with Mama Edna and we will coordinate the efforts and donations to provide for these families.
We will obtain some specific wish list items and post this information very soon.
It is our goal to provide donated items to the families by December 20th. We hope you can help us provide some comfort to these families who want to have a Merry Christmas with their loved ones.
Thank you in advance,
The BLT Ladies and The Mama Edna Project
Juicing to beat Cancer, one person at a time!
The ladies of Battling Life Together-BLT from the Triad area of NC, another small cancer non-profit trying to make a difference in the life lives of folks with cancer.
We now accept Google Wallet for donations. Please email us at themamaednaproject@gmail.com for details. Please help us help others kick cancer to the curb. Happy juicing!!!
Please share your generosity if you can this Holiday Season by making a tax-deductible contribution to The Mama Edna Project. Help us kick more cancer to the curb in 2015. We can still get your receipts to you for your tax-deductible donations for the year 2014 tax returns as long as we receive the check on or before December 31st.
Thanks so much and Happy Holidays!
We have some awesome news this month about a very generous donation that just came to us. Sur La Table, a great kitchen store, has just donated 8 gently used, Hurom juicer demo models to The Mama Edna Project. Based in Seattle, Sur La Table has stores nation wide. We are so very excited and thankful that we can help an additional 8 people with cancer in the coming weeks. One juicer has already been placed into the hands of a new cancer client this week in Houston, Arizona. Thanks Sur la Table!!!
If you or someone you know has a new or gently used slow (or masticating) juicer such as the Hurom Slow Juicer, the Breville Juice Fountain Crush, the Omega Slow Juicer or similar model that is no longer being used, please consider donating it to us so that we may pass it along to someone with cancer or other degenerative disease. We will provide you with a tax-deductible receipt as well.
Many thanks for your support in this endeavor of helping folks with cancer get the nutritional boost they so desperately need before, during and after treatment.