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This Week at Yellow Door 11-23-18

This Week at Yellow Door 11-23-18

We trust you all had a happy Thanksgiving with family and friends. We at Yellow Door are thankful for our donors, partners and volunteers. Most of all we are grateful to be able to serve families in their time of need.   This week, yet another UVA Children's Hospital...

This Week at Yellow Door 11-20-18

This Week at Yellow Door 11-20-18

Our First Yellow Door Family Pays a Visit Little Maggie, her mom Brooke and grandma Traci stayed with us last week, while Maggie underwent additional therapy. Brooke and Maggie were an impetus for the creation of the Yellow Door Foundation. Their frequent, long and...

This Week at Yellow Door 11-11-18

This Week at Yellow Door 11-11-18

Here are excerpts from the latest media coverage of the Yellow Door mission (ABCDMag.com - a production of the Cavalier Daily), featuring Yellow Door, baby Khansaa and her mom Sephida.   Families in Medical Crisis Finding Housing By Meagan O’Rourke   Sephida...

This Week at Yellow Door 10-28-18

This Week at Yellow Door 10-28-18

Join us in welcoming four-year old Gracie and her mom Wendy as the eighth family served by one of our Yellow Door apartments. Gracie just had her cancerous liver replaced, and is staying at the apartment while UVA Children's Hospital doctors and nurses keep a close...

This Week at Yellow Door 10-14-18

This Week at Yellow Door 10-14-18

7-month old Khansaa spent her first full day out of the hospital in two months. Mom Sephida said "Grateful is an understatement to how we feel having her home with us. Although Yellow Door is a temporary home away from home, it is such a blessing being here, and the...

This Week at Yellow Door 10-7-18

This Week at Yellow Door 10-7-18

8-month old Malakai got a clean bill of health from UVA Children's Hospital, so he, his new heart, and his mom Keressa finally went home to be with the rest of the family. It was a pleasure serving them at the apartments.   We would like to recognize the artists who...

This Week at Yellow Door 10-1-18

This Week at Yellow Door 10-1-18

More good news this week at Yellow Door! Khansaa's heart transplant surgery was a huge success!   While Yellow Door's primary mission is to provide temporary lodging for pediatric cancer patients and their families, we have learned through the UVA Children's Hospital...

This Week at Yellow Door 9-23-18

This Week at Yellow Door 9-23-18

(09/23/2018) Great news this week! After spending his entire life at UVA Children's Hospital, 8-month old Malakai, with his new heart, is finally able to begin bonding with mom, dad and his siblings at the Yellow Door apartment. To date, Yellow Door has served 7...

This Week at Yellow Door 9-16-18

This Week at Yellow Door 9-16-18

(September 16, 2018) Volunteers from age 6 to 69 are working hard to get the third apartment ready for our 7th family, who will move in on Tuesday. They are a family of six from Virginia Beach. Their youngest child is a 7 month old heart transplant patient at UVA...