The Pablove Foundation

There is no greater time than childhood – a time when your job is to truly be a kid – having fun with friends, running around freely outside and letting your imagination take you on wild journeys near and far are all in a day’s work for a child. Until, that is, cancer brings that childhood to a screeching halt. Suddenly, afternoon bike rides are replaced with countless doctor appointments and classrooms are replaced with hospital rooms. Thousands of children are diagnosed with cancer every year, forcing them to miss out on simple childhood joys.

That’s where the Pablove Foundation comes in. Named after Pablo Castelaz, who at 6 years old lost his battle with cancer this past June, the Pablove Foundation gives money to improve the lives of children with cancer.  Pablo’s individual fight with cancer ended but his parents, Jo Ann Thrailkill and Jeff Castelaz, “fight on in his name, with the spirit of love that Pablo embodied and inspired” with this wonderful organization.

In the months Pablo’s family spent around the hospital, a fire flared up in their hearts. Just as important to kids with cancer as their medical treatment is an outlet for fun and recreation while spending weeks at a time getting chemo and various other treatments. The Pablove Foundation supports hospital play activities, music and arts programs. A strolling minstrel, a board game, a book, or an art easel brings such joy to the heart of a child whose life has been temporarily reduced to a small hospital room.

To find out more about the Pablove Foundation and how you can help brighten the day for children with cancer, please visit www.pablove.org.

Note:
If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to help support the Pablove Foundation, Club Monaco will be hosting a special event to benefit the organization. The event is being hosted by several prominent L.A. mom entrepreneurs including Lee Rose Emery, founder of LACityMom.com, Lolita Carrico, founder of the popular MyGloss.com network, Rohina Gandhi-Hoffman, M.D. and well known photographer, Lulu Taylor.

The Club Monaco event will premiere the new book, The Well Dressed Home, by celebrity home décor designer and author, Annette Tatum, also an established L.A. business woman and mother of four. Annette will be on hand to sign her new book on fashions that inspire home design. Guests will be treated to cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. With the purchase of the book they will receive a 20% discount on the entire collection during the evening. 10% of all sales during the evening will go to benefit the Pablove Foundation.

This special event will take place on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at Club Monaco at 401 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, from 7-9 pm. For more information and to RSVP, please visit the “Events” page on www.annettetatum.com/blog.

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