Families share stories about their “home-away-from-home”
Yuma mom of four Isabel Garcia arrived in Phoenix by helicopter on a warm, sunny afternoon in June 2024 with nothing. No car, no local family support, nothing but the clothes on her back – and her 4-month-old daughter Amayah. When she woke up that… Continue Reading An Infant’s Amayah-zing Fight Against Leukemia...
Already the parents of a 3-year-old son and a 1½-year-old daughter, a positive pregnancy test in the fall of 2024 led Boston-area residents Rachel and Marco Vargas to believe they were expecting their third child. But during Rachel’s first ultrasound, the astonished sonographer went suddenly… Continue Reading 1 in 40 Million Odds Hit a Jackpot at Roanoke House...
Adoptive mom Claudia knows the favorite songs of most of the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In fact, you can often find the professional singer singing lullabies to calm and soothe her daughter Thea and the other newborns nearby. Since Thea was… Continue Reading Adoptive Mom Sings Lullabies of Love in the NICU...
As the sun rises on a beautiful Saturday morning in December, the Dobson House kitchen at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona is filled with the sounds of Haley Marin and members of her extended family cheerfully chopping, stirring, and preparing another… Continue Reading A Recipe for Comfort: Honoring Maeva Sol...
Godsway Dorlah and Jacinta Frimprong’s lives changed in an instant when they learned their unborn daughter, Jessica, would need life-saving open-heart surgery as soon as she was born. As one surgery became multiple surgeries, and Baby Jessica’s hospital stay spanned seven full months, Ronald McDonald… Continue Reading Close to Her Heart: Keeping Baby Jessica’s Family Together...
As teenagers, Johnny Acosta and Maria Bautista met while working at a Yuma-area McDonald’s more than 17 years ago. Little did they know they would fall in love, marry, start a family… and one day rely on Ronald McDonald House Charities as a home away… Continue Reading A Love Story: From a McDonald’s Take-out Window to Weeks at Ronald McDonald House...
