Declutter from the holidays, do your spring cleaning early, organize while in quarantine – and help out a great cause! Join the February CDH Community Yard Sale! We are holding a month long virtual Charity Yard Sale on Ebay. List your items and donate whatever percentage you’d like to donate to CDH International (CHERUBS) through …
2012 was a big year… our first CDH Awareness Parade in Washington DC bought out 100’s of members to march from the Lincoln Memorial to the steps of Capitol Hill, where Senator Jeff Sessions welcomed us and talked about the legislation he co-sponsored for us. But that was just one of many marches that we …
2010 bought us a big contest win, our first employee, our first parade, the “Save the Cherubs” campaign and the end to the trademark on “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness” on April 19, 2010. The day is celebrated every year now as “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day” around the world with other charities, governments, hospitals and …
2009 bought us all together again for the annual CDH Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our former volunteers for the UK and Australia had both achieved nonprofit status in their respective countries and were awarded trophies by CHERUBS for their hard work to create CHERUBS UK and CHERUBS Australia. The CDH Study Group, Mass General, …
2007 was the year that a fire was lit and the charity exploded in new projects, with new volunteers and new awareness. A splinter group decided to create their own day, awareness ribbon and to trademark “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness”, bullying and threatening other charities. The families rebelled and joined forces to pull the community …
In 2006, we published the first book of stories of CDH patients. It can still be purchased via our CDH Awareness shop. CDH Medical World News for 2006 No big CDH research news this year. CDH International News for 2006 “Stories of Cherubs” is published. CHERUBS new web site is started. Ohio member picnic is held …
In 2005, a third genetic study of CDH was started, we submitted our first research abstract and reached 1500 CDH families. CDH Medical World News for 2005 Baylor genetic CDH study started. CDH International News for 2005 CHERUBS submits research data for inclusion in the International CDH Study Group Congress in Germany. Ohio member picnic is …
2004 was a new beginning for CHERUBS. We had more volunteers, more direction and a lot of new members. We also created the first CDH Awareness store, our UK volunteers launched their own nonprofit and we reached 1400 families worldwide. CDH Medical World News for 2004 No CDH research news for 2004. CDH International News for …
View our 2020 List of Cherubs at www.cherubs.org In late November, CDHi updated our home page in loving memory of every non-surviving cherub by placing a candle next to each cherub’s name. This was in observance of 2020 National Children’s Memorial Day, which was on December 13th. We will now be adding the names of surviving cherubs to the …
2002 brought the first genetic study for CDH in Boston, the first CHERUBS UK get-together and our first office! We moved onto “Wall Street” in Oxford, North Carolina when the charity outgrew the president’s house. We also helped with a television show and learned how to hold many new types of fundraisers. In one year, …
2001 shook the world with the attacks on 9/11. It shook our charity too as our secretary, Judi Toth, was working in the Pentagon and many other families in the charity were affected as well. Despite that September morning, 2001 propelled our volunteers to grow our charity worldwide, reaching 750 families in 27 countries. Our …
The new millennium bought about a lot of changes at the charity. We started the year off with Judi Toth running the charity as our President grieved the loss of her own 6 yr old CDH child. As we all transitioned into a new century, we continued to grow with a very close knit, hard …
