Arts For Life is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people facing serious illnesses and disabilities. By providing educational art programs, we enrich patients’ lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families. Arts For Life helps children in four cities across North Carolina.
Arts For Life’s staff members, volunteers, and interns teach the arts to patients for over 280 hours each week. We work with more than 6,200 patients annually.
Our visual art, creative writing, and music programs decrease patient stress and anxiety, keep patients active and engaged, and help families cope with the realities of illness.
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Rima Boulos
Nine-year-old Rima has endured lengthy and difficult hospital stays for treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Philadelphia Chromosome since she was diagnosed in March of 2010. Rima’s cancer is one of the rarest there is – only 10 children are diagnosed each year. And while she’s ready to be done with the pricks and pokes, tests and treatments, she is bittersweet nonetheless. ‘Part of me is sad’, she says, ‘because it means that I won’t be able to do art with Betsey or play guitar with Colin.’
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