These Monsters Hope to Scare Away Cancer
You're never too young to make a difference - just look to 4-year-old Max Rice, who is helping in the fight against cancer.
Max, from Edmonton, Alberta, loves to draw. He started sketching monsters around the same time his friend, 3-year-old Kyla, was diagnosed with leukemia, just days after her mother, Amber MacNeil, finished treatment for a brain tumor.
Max's mother, Julie Rohr, helped her son understand cancer by relating it to the "mean and scary" monsters he was drawing. The child decided that he wanted to help his friend, and now his monster sketches are being sold to benefit Kyla and other cancer patients.
We don't always like to see scary art, do we?" writes Max's mom on the "Buy a Monster to Fight a Monster" website. "Some of these monsters look downright angry. But that's how we feel when we hear about this monster, cancer, attacking our friends and neighbours and family members. So maybe it's okay to see something angry once in a while to remind us to stand behind these people in support as they fight their battles with cancer."
Max's sketches come at a suggested donation between $10 and $35, and are available as magnets, prints or large canvas pieces. He's already earned $6,000 in sales and all the original drawings have sold out.
"His original goal was $1,100, and I told him that was too ambitious for a 4-year-old," says Julie. "He adjusted his goal to $1,000 dollars, but we reached that in the first 20 hours of the campaign!"
Fifty percent of all proceeds will go to the MacNeil family to help pay their medical bills while Kyla gets treatment. The other fifty percent will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Want to buy a monster and support those suffering from cancer? Head here to pick up a print.
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