My Child’s Life Matters Inc.

680 Amber Lane # 206

Carol Stream, IL 60188

EIN # 81-4675746

mychildslifematters@gmail.com

 Dear Community Member,

My Child’s Life Matters is a 501(c)3 charity confronting the current opiate, fentanyl crisis in our local communities and across the country. We are currently losing 300 plus people a day to opiate poisonings, especially fentanyl. This is the same as an airplane crash happening every day of the week and surely by now it has affected someone in your workplace or family. This epidemic is taking the lives of anyone it can, and we believe that all lives matter. This is unacceptable! Many families are suffering in silence because of the stigma, we are here to help them break out of this and walk beside them during this difficult journey they are on.

After the traumatic loss of my son, John Allen, in 2016, in Glendale Hts., we have jumped in to help our community, by providing support in many ways to traumatized families.

We are approaching our 8th annual “Ride For John-Remember US ALL", a charity motorcycle ride in remembrance of all the lives we have lost due to this epidemic. Each motorcyclist rides for a specific family and places their picture on a memorial board at the conclusion of the ride. This moment is always a life changing experience for everyone present.

The event will begin with a motorcycle ride leaving Fox River Harley Davidson and ending at the Carol Stream Town Center, on Saturday July 20, 2024 where we will host our annual opiate awareness event along with live bands from 2PM-6PM. We are already anticipating this year’s event to have National presence and will be memorializing 1100’s of victims. We will also have DuPage County Sheriff, States Attorney and others speaking to the community about this epidemic.

We are currently looking to the community to help with our mission through quality items that can be used for raffle prizes to be held on the day of the Ride.

Thank you so much for your time

Kathy Zander

630-721-5284