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The organization was formed to honor the memory of Oscar Litwak by providing children requiring hospitalization and/or long-term medical treatment the opportunity to find an environment that is familiar, non-threatening and fun.
Oscar was diagnosed with Wilms tumor (cancer of the kidneys) at the age of four months and spent many days, weeks, and months as a hospital patient. When he was not hospitalized, he was receiving chemotherapy treatments that lasted between 8 and 10 hours at a time. Nevertheless, his favorite thing was to visit the playrooms in the hospitals or the clinics and play with anything and everything available there. Regardless of his pain and how sick he felt, Oscar always found comfort and even a little happiness in the playroom. Oscar was four years old at the time of his passing.
His courage, strength, and love for life have left a deep and indelible mark on all of us who loved and knew him. We are forever grateful for his smile and his laughter, even in the most difficult of circumstances
The Oscar Litwak Foundation was created with the purpose of perpetuating Oscar’s happiness and helping other sick children find some happiness too. The organization’s efforts are geared to creating, rehabilitating, supplying, and maintaining playroom facilities in pediatric hospitals, clinics, and pediatric wards of non-pediatric hospitals in hopes that children requiring long and painful treatments can find some refuge and comfort there.
The Oscar Litwak Foundation incorporated in the State of California on October 20, 2003, and has been granted tax exempt status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as described under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal revenue Code. |
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The Board of Directors of The Oscar Litwak Foundation would like to give a warm welcome to Ms. Whoopi Goldberg, who joins in the efforts of the Foundation to Lift the Spirits of Hospitalized Children.
Source: www.oscars.org |
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