WARREN, Vt. — Always good to see people supporting charitable cause using tennis as it's vehicle. Fill the Gap was awarded $4,000 in proceeds as a result of the 3-day tennis tournament. These funds will be used toward additional volunteer recruitment and training.
Compete For A Cure, an annual tennis tournament held at the Bridges Resort in Warren, Vt., selected Fill The Gap as one of the beneficiaries of the total funds raised for breast cancer causes.
Fill the Gap is a nonprofit telephone help line staffed by trained compassionate survivor volunteers who provide support and information from first awareness of a possible breast cancer diagnosis to entry into treatment.
Most people with cancer will tell you they experienced their greatest fear during the initial time of their diagnosis.
In partnership with Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and York Hospital, the help line's mission is to improve the lives of these people facing a possible cancer diagnosis, by providing emotional and informational support to them and their families/friends.
Fill the Gap launched June 25, 2007, and provides services to those in need in the surrounding Seacoast area and beyond.
"To be able to speak to a cancer survivor who lives right here in the Seacoast any time of the day and night during the beginning of the cancer experience is most reassuring," said Executive Director Cynthia Cote. "Our partnering hospitals and health-care providers are now able to offer emotional and informational help line services to their patients and families. We are thankful for the support of our Seacoast hospitals, businesses and fund-raising events who make it possible to 'fill the gap' for our friends and neighbors."
