10-Year-Old Girl Helps Children With Cancer By Making Chemo Kits

When Madeline Domian lost her aunt Kathi to gastric cancer last year, she decided that she wanted to so something to help. But as a child who has seen more than her fair share of the horrors from the disease, she decided to help other kids fight the disease instead. This is how she came up with Katie-Do Kare Kits 4 Kids.

During an assembly, Madeline spoke with the kids in her school about the kits. She described her relationship with her aunt and explained what she wanted to do with the help of the entire school.

The ten-year-old also came up with an idea to hold a contest between grades to see who can collect most of the necessary items for the kits. Students in kindergarten through second grade are in charge of socks and blankets, while third- through fifth-grade students are focused more on activity items such as games and colored pencils.

Parenting noted that the kits also include things like mints, lotion, and gum, to help with the side effects of chemotherapy. "I didn't think anyone would ever want to be that sick," Madeline said. "Especially kids, because all they want to do is play and have fun."

All in all, the kids from the Missouri elementary school were able to assemble a total of 50 kits, which Madeline dropped off at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. "Kids at my school love to be happy," the ten-year-old hero explained. "So the fact that we're making other kids happy makes them happy."

One of the recipients of the kits is 17-year-old Kinsey Siadek, who suffers from osteosarcoma, who was ecstatic to receive one of Madeline's kits. "Some of the items came at a time where I really needed them," she told Today.

Among the things, her favorite was the blanket. Apparently, the fact that it was handmade "gives it an extra special feeling," claims the cancer patient. "We had no idea Maddie wanted to do something so big," Michelle Domian, Madeline's mom told Today. "But we're incredibly proud of her."