Our goal is to help the children who are cancer patients, and their families who are right now fighting a similar battle at the new Dell Children’s Hospital here in Austin, Texas. The foundation currently does the following:

We provide and serve meals to the families on the cancer unit at the Dell Children’s Hospital on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Wednesday of each month. This has turned into something special for these families and for us too! We feed between 30 to 45 people each week.

Each year, we grant a “Make A Wish” for a local child that is battling cancer here in central Texas. Last year, we granted Yazmin’s wish to go to New York with her family to shop, and then on to a special treat to see the “Rockettes” perform.

We are the main sponsor for the teenage youth group “The Hungry Bunch”. They do great work at Dells Children’s Hospital that include monthly activities outside the hospital like their big camping trip each year. Jennifer loved “The Hungry Bunch” and we are proud to help these folks.

On Christmas Eve we serve a special Christmas meal for our ‘families’ on the oncology unit. Last year we served 21 families, as well as the nursing staff totaling over 70 people. They enjoyed a wonderful steak, chicken, and shrimp dinner.

Also on Christmas Eve, we give each patient and their siblings a stuffed stocking and $100 worth of presents. We have the parents filled out a form before Christmas, giving us ideas of what the children need or want for Christmas. Using this list, we go shopping. Last year we helped 47 children!

In 2009, our goals also include helping to support “The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society” and “His Grace Foundation”.

We know that Jennifer is in heaven looking down on each of us and smiling in approval! Please join us in extending your helping hand as well.

– Tim and Mary Wilks for the “Jennifer Wilks Foundation” –

“The Mountain”
-When the task at hand is a mountain in front of you, it may seem hard to climb.
But you don’t have to climb it all at once-just one step at a time.
Take one small step…and one small step…then another…and you will find-
the task at hand, that was a mountain in front of you…
is a mountain you have climbed….

(a favorite poem of Jennifer’s she wished to share with all on her website)