For Valerie Sobel, life imploded when doctors found that her 17-year old son Andre had a brain tumor. He died one year later. In trying to decide how best to memorialize Andre, Valerie thought about the financial resources that had enabled her to spend that final year with him. Wanting others to have this same opportunity Valerie founded the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation. The Foundation supports everything from food and shelter to ballet lessons for a patient’s sibling. “We try to be sensitive to what government can never be expected to support,” notes Ms. Sobel. “Our society is only
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