There’s a new local charity aimed at childhood cancer – the Max Life Foundation – and organizers have already scheduled their first event: the Sporting Clay Shoot for Childhood Cancer on April 3 at Four Branches Sporting Preserve in Polkton.
Dianna Lariviere of Mount Gilead, whose son Max has cancer, recently met with the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and the county, by proclamation, declared September to be Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. But Dianna’s fight continues: “I won’t stop until children are no longer affected by this disease,” she said, and that’s why she started the 501©3 nonprofit to honor Max.
The Max Life Foundation will help support childhood cancer families by easing the monthly financial burdens of mortgage and rent payments, car loan payments and electricity bills. Dianna said she knows firsthand that the bills don’t stop and, unfortunately, grow with the addition of insurance co-payments and treatment. “If it wasn’t for this community and foundations that assist families, we wouldn’t have a house to bring Max home to,” she said. “It’s a sad reality for so many and I want parents to be able to focus on their child and not how they will come up with money to pay a bill. They have enough stress. I want to pay it forward and do my part.”
You can learn more about the foundation and the sporting clay shoot below, and on Facebook and Instagram.
