It's the first part of April everyone (as if you didn't know by the fun and games on dA yesterday) and so we move on to a new theme for the month.

This month we're featuring Leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by this disease every year world wide. Children and older adults especially seem prone to the disease.

For this month at DFTC we're doing an art drive. You can see the news article here. We're looking for your artwork about Leukemia. It can be in any medium and your choices are limitless. Just put in the artist's description that you allow us to use it in our gallery, send us a note titled "April Submission" with the link or thumb in the note. We'll take care of the rest.

We are also working on a Paper Cranes project for this month. If you do any paper cranes, please keep ahold of them if you want to participate in this part of the project. We are trying to get the paper cranes sent to the Hiroshima Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. Watch our journal for more information on where to send your cranes!

Hey everyone! Here's a listing of walks taking place over the United States, and some other international countries. I'll be updating the list as I find more walks that are taking place, so I'll try to not spam your inbox with new additions. If anyone has any walks that they know of in their area, please, send me a note, and I'll add it to my journal. I'd appreciate it if you sent the dates of the walk(s) and if you have a link to a website with more information, please add that to the note. Just title the note "Walks Addition" or something like that.

On the note of the walks, if anyone participates, and would like to send some photos of the walk to the group, go right ahead! I'd love adding them to our account .

Hey everyone! Sorry it's taken so long for anyone to start responding to your notes, faves, and messages to the club. We've all been busy with other things, and somehow this fabulous club has fallen through the cracks. But, on the good news, we're back!

I'm also looking for another person or two to help me run this account, so if you have the time to spare, and want to be a part of it, please note me here and let me know you're interested.

Ok everyone! WE NEED YOUR HELP!

One of our purposes here on *DeviantsForTheCure is to get the word out about people who need our support with dealing with cancer. This one struck a big cord with me, as I heard about this little girl from my father. Harley Thornton is 2 1/2 years old, and has a form of cancer called neuroblastoma.

The child is very sick, and her parents are financially strapped. The parents live with their three children in a one bedroom home in West Virginia. They have been taking Harley to Johns Hopkins medical center for experimental treatments on this disease in the hopes that she'll get better. But that in itself takes a lot of money, more than the insurance will pay. So thousands of dollars are going to this baby's medical care. She's not well enough to move and play like normal children her age. Harley sleeps most of the day, and has an IV with morphine to help with the pain from this disease.

What can we do about it?

Well, the family needs help financially. That's one of the biggest concerns, but they also need prayers and support. This is a very hard time for any parent, as I'm sure some of you will identify with.

Here's some links for you all:
National Cancer Institute's Page on Neuroblastoma

Harley Thornton's Support Page

C'mon everyone! We can make a difference to this family can't we?