Everyone wants to be given the chance to make a difference, and now there’s an organization that allows you to do just that. It’s called Love Your Melon, and it’s leaving its mark on the world. To think that LYM started in 2012, in a small entrepreneurship class at the University of St. Thomas, by two friends, Zach and Brian. Ever since that moment, Love Your Melon has been on a mission to improve the lives of children battling cancer in America.
From it’s founding moment, I don’t think that Love Your Melon could have ever imagine just how big it would become. In order to urge more people to become a part of the cause, Love Your Melon took two nationwide tours to spread its mission. And I'd say it has done just that. LYM now has more than 7,500 Love Your Melon Ambassadors around the country at more than 500 different schools! The point of being an ambassador is to spread Love Your Melon’s nation within their own community. Now kids have the opportunity to make small changes in their community, which, in turn, allows them to make changes throughout the nation.
So, yes. The company works to improve the lives of children battling cancer, but how do they do it? Well, they put a hat on every child’s head who is battling cancer in America. A lot of the children go through chemotherapy, and we want to protect their little melons (heads) by giving them a hat to cover it with. At this point in time, Love Your Melon has fortunately been able to reserve more than 45,000 hats to donate to pediatric cancer patients through its "buy one, give one" theme. So, if you haven’t yet been a supporter, and bought a hat to support the "buy one, give one hat" giveaway, I suggest you do! Knowing that by purchasing your hat, one was given to a young child who really needed a little light in his life, is a feeling unlike any other. It may just seem like a simple hat, but the logo on them and the organization that creates them, stands for fighting pediatric cancer. The hats are meant to be a meaningful symbol in their fight against cancer.
Very recently, Love Your Melon has partnered with the Pinky Swear Foundation to provide instant assistance for children battling cancer, as well as with CureSearch for Children’s Cancer to fund research initiatives to beat pediatric cancer completely. Love Your Melon has very recently changed its model to now be that “50 percent of net proceeds on every Love Your Melon product sold will be donated to the PinkySwear Foundation and CureSearch.” Love Your Melon wants one thing and that is to fix this awful and debilitating illness. For right now, we take putting a smile onto the battling children’s faces a close first.
Even more interestingly, the Love Your Melon organization provides opportunities for a lot of interactive experiences that allow the ambassadors to see why they do what they do, and just how much it means to the kids. The hats are donated IN PERSON at hospitals around the United States by Love Your Melon ambassadors dressed in superhero costumes! We want these children to know that they are not alone, and that they are “superheroes' heroes” for fighting the fight that they do each and every day.
So, if you haven’t yet, support Love Your Melon. It is for such a great and beautiful cause, and it’s mission needs to continue to be shared! Just send your friends and family to http://loveyourmelon.com and share with them what you’ve just read here. By doing something so simply, by just talking, you are helping to spread the mission of Love Your Melon and you are working to end so many children’s fights against pediatric cancer. Be someone’s superhero and protect many little melons!
