With amazing spring weather,the 2nd annual Fundraiser for Egypt Cancer Network 57357(ECN) took place at the Four Seasons resort in Las Colinas on April 6., 2013, attracting many Arab Americans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This year included keynote speakers such as Jonathan Bailey, the renowned Dallas-based architect of the Children’s Cancer Hospital, Egypt’s(CCHE) current premises...

 Flowers, candy, dinner at a restaurant … these are all common ways to honor the most important person in your life, your Mom.  Mother’s Day in the United States this year is May 12.  Although the above gifts are very nice, we at Egypt Cancer Network have a better idea. There is another way to honor your mom on her most special day.  Egypt Cancer Network has developed a program with your...

 Built thanks to small and big donations, 57357 continues to expand and be sustained by them   There is a certain aura to the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt (CCHE), alias Hospital 57357 that rallies people around it regardless of their race, creed or social background. Whether in Cairo , Egypt where it is located for the  purpose of giving hope in cure to  children with cancer,  ...

March 30, 2013 was an ordinary day in the life of most New Yorkers.  It was a brisk day with a hint of Spring in the air.  People went about their normal Saturday routine, shopping, cleaning, and running their kids from one soccer game to another.  What they did not realize as they were doing all this, that there was a special event going on in the city. The event was a special gala being...

  Mahmoud ElAwady is an Egyptian American immigrant working as Vice President and financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Orlando, Florida. Mahmoud’s kid Mohamed developed Acute Myeloid leukemia some 15 months ago, received care at Florida Children’s Hospital and successfully completed his treatment, thanks be to God . Few days ago, he visited Hospital 57357 for...

While most teens today are gathering over the weekend to talk about the latest boy  band, or who is the cutest in the class, or the latest fashion trends, a young group of Dallas teens were gathering for another reason.  They spent several weekends in a row making blankets for the children of Hospital 57357, to use while they are going through their chemo treatments.  The blankets (50 in all)...

  57357 was just a  set of numbers to me seen on a few ads on TV. Friends and family were always advising me to donate  but I was reluctant to do so. The TV ad of Bob Bradley attracted my attention to the tax deduction in the US and as I am an Egyptian living abroad the idea appealed to me. Sending my Zakat to my home country and getting a tax break would allow me to donate even...

Among the students participating in 57537’s annual competition event for school children ,was 12 year old boy “Yussuf “ , who received treatment at 57357 and is on his way to recovery from cancer. In spite of his disease, Yussuf enjoys a healthy appearance, and as such many of his school mates didn’t know about his illness. They were informed for the first time about his disease during...

Egypt Cancer Network 57357 and AFNCI (ECN), a U.S.based tax deductible non- profit 501C3 organization in operation for nearly two years, has recently donated medicine and chemotherapy drugs to the Fakkous Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases located in Fakkous,Sharkia Governorate in the Delta Region of Egypt . This donation falls within the framework of ECN’s mission to support and provide...

  Egypt Cancer Network 57357 & AFNCI (ECN)’s Chicago Chapter organized their first fundraiser, a gala event on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.  Prior to the event , Egypt’s  Consul General, Magued Refaat and his wife  hosted a dinner  attended by 50 prominent Arab-Americans from the Chicago and neighboring area to raise awareness and...