Dear Friends,

The Dream Factory of Rochester, Inc. is a not for profit, volunteer organization that fulfills the dreams of critically and chronically ill children ages 3-18.

To celebrate another successful year and raise the funds need to continue fulfilling dreams, The Dream Factory of Rochester is looking for volunteers to participate in our annual “Buzz the Red, White and Blue…Make a Dream Come True”. This event will take place on Sunday June 6th, 2010. We need law enforcement officers, fire fighters, ambulance personnel, and anyone else interested in participating to collect donations for The Dream Factory (try to reach the goal of collecting $1000 from friends, relatives, co-workers and local businesses) and then, on June 6th participate in a group head-shaving event. Your participation in this event sends a message to the children saying, “We respect your courage and we’ve come to help.” Every individual that participates contributes not only his hair, but funds he/she has raised for the cause.

When a child looses her hair from chemotherapy it takes a long time to grow back, often times the waiting is difficult, the looks from strangers, the comments from school mates, these can all have a devastating effect on a child who is already dealing with the unexplainable concept of cancer or some other critical or chronic illness. If just three volunteers participate in Buzz The Red, White and Blue, we can send a child and her family to Disney World for one week. Imagine what we can do if ten fire fighters, ten ambulance personnel and ten police officers participate! Your hair will grow back quickly, life will go back to the way it was. Unfortunately we cannot make the same promise to those children living with critical and chronic illnesses. Will the lives of these children and their families ever go back to the way it was before the diagnosis of a serious illness? Together we cannot cure these children, but we can show them an incredible amount of love and support.

Please participate in this event and allow us to Buzz the Red, White and Blue so we can continue to make children’s dreams come true. Contact us at 585-234-0740 or rochester@dreamfactoryincroc.org for pledge sheets and further details.