The ChipIn Widget, @Phil801-anthropy and helping Serenity

Hearts and prayers out to Serenity Burns, the daughter of Utah blogger @Phil801 and his wife Adria. Serenity has been diagnosed with and is being treated for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. I first heard of this about 15 days ago through the Utah Twittersphere that led me to Jason Alba’s blogpost and then to Phil’s blog where with great detail he has detailed their family’s challenge: help Serenity beat this disease.

(Incidentally, I was excited to see that this past weekend a good friend’s daughter graduated high school. She fought and won a battle with Leukemia when she was seven.) 

I noticed the ChipIn widget Phil had on the side and saw that it had a goal of $10,000.00. It was at ~$1,200 then and I used it to make a donation and thought that it was very easy – especially if you already have a PayPal account.

Today their ChipIn reached over $10,000 which is really awesome and I’m hoping that their goal is revised upwards 10x. While they’ve got an uphill battle to fight with medical costs, the support of the blogging community combined with yet-another great social media application – ChipIn – Serenity Burns will surely walk a high school graduation stage. Just as in the case of Leilani’s GabrielsLife.org, social media is saving lives and helping people out. How cool is that?

If you have the ability to make a donation the the Serentity ChipIn, I’d appreciate it.