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Visit the charity's profileWolo Foundation are ONE!!!! Our first birthday is in March 2021 (9/3/21), and we want you to help us celebrate in style!
The Wolo March involves committing to going out each day in March - to walk, ride, run, march, scoot or swim - no set distances, no set times and nothing competitive. We just want to encourage others to embrace their surroundings.....to help promote their emotional wellbeing, and connect with nature.
Covid-19 has hit many of us hard, and lots of us are struggling with our mental health. It has been proven that connecting with nature helps to create and encourage a positive mindset, so if we can encourage you to go out every day in March it will help us all get the Vitamin C we need.
Wolo Foundation help families living in Sussex through their cancer journeys. They support them by offering practical help and support to make their day-to-day lives easier. They work with local businesses and communities to offer families a wealth of services to support them through their diagnosis, treatment and beyond.
Statistics show that 1 in 2 people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Life is precious - we need to make the most of it - we only live once - WOLO!
Having recently battled cancer herself, founder Fler Wright and her husband Justin want to be able to help families going through similar experiences. There was a distinct lack of support available to them due to their circumstances, so they created Wolo to help fill this gap. Wolo currently supports families living in Sussex with children under the age of 18 years. The name WOLO came about as Fler & Justin loved the acronym YOLO (you only live once) and enjoy living their lives with their young family to the full - so they adapted it, and created WOLO - which stands for we only live once.
To date, Wolo have helped families with a huge variety of services. They work closely with their local community to offer families a wealth of services to support them at what is, a very stressful time. Services such as; child care, cleaning, gardening, health and wellbeing therapy sessions (for both adults and children), legal services such as will writing, complimentary therapies to ease the side effects of treatment, and have offered opportunities for relaxation/pampering, memory making by supplying annual passes to local attractions/pantomimes/events, purchased medical aids - plus much more.
"Such a thoughtful and kind charity set up by a wonderful and caring family. Fler knows only too well the impact that cancer can have on a family, and sadly I am now terminally ill. Wolo have supported me with massages when I have pulled muscles due to coughing, tidied my front garden when my husband just didnt have time and sent our children and me to the theatre at Christmas to see the panto. Such wonderful support and memory making. Thank you."
During Covid-19 Wolo have adapted their services inline with government restrictions, and have been working with local businesses to deliver isolation packages containing essential food items, fresh food, toys and activity packs to help keep children amused during the shielding/isolation process.
"The last year really has been, in so many ways, the worst ever year for me, my wife and my kids. Without the generosity of Fler and Wolo I cant even imagine where wed be right now. We really cant thank Wolo enough for all of the help that they have given us throughout these truly terrible times."
To read more about Wolo, their story and the ways in which you can help, please visit www.wolofoundation.org
Wolo also have a range of branded clothing and merchandise available on their website as well as the Wolo ShoeBox - a document they have created for everyone which helps to organise ones affairs into a single document in the event of the unthinkable. Take a look at their online shop for more information: www.wolofoundation.org/new-products
Statistics show that 1 in 2 people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Life is precious - we need to make the most of it - we only live once. Wolo!
Thank you for your support.
Wolo
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