Emilio Nares Foundation
PROGRAMS
Ride With Emilio
Ride With Emilio provides free transportation services to ensure that sick children have access to chemotherapy and other crucial medical appointments. Prior to Ride With Emilio, many children missed crucial cancer treatment at Children's Hospital of Orange County due to transportation barriers. During the past ten years of operations in OC, missed appointments due to transportation issues have been virtually eliminated.
No child should miss their cancer treatment due to lack of transportation. Public transportation is not a suitable option when your child's immune system is suppressed. Long term success would be every low-income, underprivileged families whose child has cancer, is picked up and taken to their medical appointment. Our goal is also to grow the operations, gain office space and operational staff needed to raise and secure sustainable funding and have Ride with Emilio in every children's hospital.
Loving Tabs Shirts
These shirts are specially designed with open tabs on the shoulder to facilitate access to medical devices without requiring scared children to remove their garment. For children, lifting or removing their shirts several times a day for required procedures creates unnecessary stress and fear. Emilio's Loving Tab Shirts provide comfort when children are receiving grueling medical treatment. These shirts are provided to patients free of charge in an innovative and fun package.
We want to eliminate the discomfort of removing their garment for all children who are receiving medical treatment while facilitating access to their port.
Emilio's Snack Bags
We provide healthy, hospital-approved snack bags for children after treatment. These bags are assembled and distributed to CHOC where nurses in the oncology/hematology unit give to children as needed.
This program ensures no child is hungry after grueling medical treatment, provides nutritious alternatives to sugary vending machines and eliminates the food gap to families in need.
CONTACT
Emilio Nares Foundation
4699 Murphy Canyon Rd
200
SAN DIEGO, CA 92123
Monica Martinez
Phone: 858-5713328