Chemo is isolating. A Chemo Care Kit says someone sees you.
When a cancer warrior opens a kit, they find comfort they can hold and proof that a community of strangers is in their corner. National brands donate the comfort. Volunteers hand-sew the port pillows. Your gift sends a kit to a cancer warrior in treatment.
10,000+ cancer warriors supported across all 50 states. 100% of every Chemo Care Kit donation goes to the items inside and shipping.
What is a Chemo Care Kit?
A Chemo Care Kit is a box of comfort built for the hardest days of treatment. Every item is chosen to solve a real problem a cancer warrior faces in the chair and at home — from a port that aches under a seatbelt to nausea that will not quit.
Inside each kit
- Hand-sewn port pillow to cushion the chest port from seatbelt and bag-strap pressure
- Ginger chews to help settle treatment nausea
- Cozy socks for cold infusion rooms
- Soft eye mask for rest during long treatment days
- Lip balm for the dryness chemo brings
- Back scratcher for skin that is too sensitive to reach
- Tattoo eyebrows for the days brows thin out
Kits ship anywhere in the United States, one per person, and arrive in about two weeks.
Comfort, delivered right when the world feels smallest
Cancer treatment strips away the ordinary comforts most people never think about. It is exhausting, expensive, and lonely. A Chemo Care Kit will not cure anyone, and it does not pretend to. What it does is meet a cancer warrior exactly where they are on that day and remind them they are not walking through it unseen.
Cancer warriors tell us the same thing again and again: the kit arrived at the moment they needed it most, and the port pillow made the drive to treatment bearable. That is the impact — small, practical, human, and delivered right when the world feels smallest.
How a kit comes together
A Chemo Care Kit is not something we buy off a shelf. It is built by a chain of people who each give what they can.
National brands donate the comfort
The items inside are given in-kind by brands who believe in the mission, so nearly every dollar can go to reaching more cancer warriors.
Volunteers hand-sew the port pillows
This is the heart of every kit — there are no kits without our makers. Volunteers across the country sew each port pillow by hand, and the whole organization runs on their generosity.
Your gift gets it shipped
About $12 packs and ships one kit to a cancer warrior. 100% of every Chemo Care Kit donation goes directly to the items in the kit and its shipping.
How to help
There is a way to help that fits how you are able to give — a few dollars, a few hours at a sewing machine, or a team of coworkers around a table. Here is how to plug in.
Donate a kit
Give a cancer warrior comfort for the road ahead. About $12 ships one kit, $60 ships five, and $120 ships ten — every dollar goes straight to the items and shipping.
Donate now →Shop the Amazon Wish List
Prefer to send the comfort itself? Buy items straight from our Amazon Wish List and they ship directly to us to fill kits.
Shop the Wish List →Make port pillows
If you sew, you can make the single most important item in the box. Grab the pattern, stitch pillows on your own schedule, and send them in to become part of a kit.
Become a port pillow maker →Host a Corporate Build Day
Turn a team meeting into something your people will remember. Sponsor a build where employees pack 100 to 1,000 kits together — turnkey setup, impact photos, and kits delivered to a local cancer center.
Plan a Corporate Build Day →Join a Community Build Day
Gather your friends, your congregation, your club, or your neighbors and pack kits together — a few hours becomes a room full of finished kits headed to cancer warriors.
Find or host a Community Build Day →Do a Mitzvah Project
Looking for a bar or bat mitzvah project with real meaning? Build Chemo Care Kits for cancer warriors and turn a milestone into lasting comfort for people who need it.
Start a Mitzvah Project →Are you or someone you love in treatment?
Chemo Care Kits are available to cancer warriors across the United States, one per person. Tell us where to send it and we will get a box of comfort on its way.