The Beauty of Giving

Heartbreakingly, I know we have all been touched by a friend, family or loved one trying to hold onto a semblance of dignity and humanity in the face of illness that is robbing them of the very essence or quality of life. For me, this too is personal.

 

At the Beauty Bus Foundation, our youngest client is 3 years old. Our oldest, 101. We serve men, women and children - all are suffering from ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, cancer, stroke or other select neuromuscular and motor neuron diseases. And we care for the caregiver!

 

The Beauty Bus Foundation is the only the only organization sending Beauty Professionals into homes to provide free services for clients and a volunteer Beauty Buddy on every visit to ensure the visit is more enjoyable for our clients, to act as the liaison between Beauty Bus and the client, and to leave a Bag of Beauty of donated products to extend the pampering until their next visit. Our mission is to provide dignity, hope and respite through beauty and grooming services and pampering products.

 

Your support provides a stream of vital support that allows us to respond to the most urgent and pressing needs of our clients. 

 

The Beauty Bus Foundation has worked with more than 250 beauty professionals who give their time and talent to provide hair, nails, makeup and facial services through In-Home Visits, and Pop-Up Salons, where we partner with local social service agencies and hospitals, such as Ronald McDonald House, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and City of Hope. In less than five years the we have touched more than 2,500 individuals, provided more than 3,800 services and delivered more than 14,500 Bags of Beauty to those in need.

 

A Beauty Bus visit provides our clients and caregivers a break from the hardships of disease, from doctor's visits, and insurance paperwork. We estimate that there are another 50,000 qualified clients and caregivers in the Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange Counties who need our services!

 

Today, I am asking you to make a year-end-tax-deductible donation to our Annual Fund. At this time of year when you look to make a difference with your dollars, we ask that you make the Beauty Bus Foundation one of your choices.

 

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I hope that 2014 brings you joy, warmth, health, happiness, and of course, all that is beautiful!
Thank you for you for your generosity and support.

 

Sincerely,

         

 

 

 

Ronda Wilkin, CEO  

Beauty Bus Foundation

 

 

P.S. My door is always open. If you would like to personally talk about donations, sponsorships or funding the Beauty Bus Foundation, call 310.392.0900 or email me at [email protected]

 

 


The Beauty of Touch 

Touch is more than just a feeling - it is both reaching out to someone and touch affects that which is touched. While I went through my cancer treatments, I was touched - touched by surgical instruments, needles, radiation and chemo. My body was attacked every second of every day. What I had not realized in all the hurry to recover was that all touch I was getting was negative. That is until Beauty Bus came to visit me to give me a facial. The touch was soft, compassionate, and loving. The facial let me know I could still be beautiful even though my life had turned upside down. The "Beauty Bus Touch" affected me so profoundly it changed my attitude toward the disease, toward my outcome, toward life itself. It's hard to tell you in words what a mighty organization like Beauty Bus does for a person and their caregiver only because words fail in their description. Please, please donate to Beauty Bus. Because, as simple as it sounds - giving someone a beauty treatment can lead to positive drastic change in a person's attitude to fight even harder and to know they are worth it. I know. It happened to me."

 


- Kay O., former client, now cancer-free and volunteering with Beauty Bus

Your contribution is critical. With your help, we can fund dignity, hope and respite.

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Beauty Bus Foundation | 2716 Ocean Park Blvd, Suite 1062 | Santa Monica, California 90405
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