Soroptimists Supporting Cancer Patients
Posted October 7, 2015 at 5:45 am by Tim Dustrude
Soroptimists International of Friday Harbor Spent $16,500 Supporting Cancer Patients
Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor’s (SIFRI) Cancer Transportation Fund has provided over $16,500 for ferry tickets for cancer patients and their caregivers in the recently completed 2014-2015 fiscal year. In recent years, the fund has often received designated gifts from foundations that covered the annual costs. This year such gifts covered a little more than half the cost. Memorial gifts in remembrance of two former beneficiaries of the fund and pledges at the annual St. Patrick’s Extravaganza made up part of the shortfall, The remaining shortfall will come out of SIFRI reserves.
This is the twelfth year that fund has operated, providing ferry tickets to cancer patients and their caregivers living on San Juan Island and being treated on the mainland. SIFRI refer people who need to fly to the San Juan Eagles, who provide free private airplane trips to the mainland for cancer patients.
This summer, Joyce Sobel took over from Julie Hanks as the Ferry Ticket Coordinator. The Cancer Transportation Fund has a new dedicated telephone number and e-mail for clients needing ferry tickets. The new phone number for the Cancer Ferry Ticket Project is: 360-298-0459* or 360-378-4921 (*please do not sent texts to this number).
The email is: soroptimistferrytickets [@] gmail [.] com . The contact for the San Juan Eagles is Soroptimist Vicky Thalacker (378-4578).
Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor is a service club with the mission of improving the lives of women and girls locally and internationally. As a 501(c)3 organization any donation that you may want to make to support our work is tax deductible. To find out more about the work we do or to make a donation please go to our website at: www.sifri.org
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