The mission of The Barry L. Joyce Local Cancer Support Fund is to provide financial, emotional, and educational support to cancer patients residing in Rockingham County, North Carolina who do not have the means to adequately fight their illness.
During his battle with cancer, Barry Joyce became deeply aware of the overwhelming financial burden many local families face after a diagnosis. He believed no one in Rockingham County should have to face cancer alone or worry about how they would survive the everyday hardships that come with it.
For 25 years, The Barry L. Joyce Local Cancer Support Fund has helped local families focus more energy on fighting cancer and less on how they will pay the bills, put food on the table, or make it to treatment.
Support can mean help with power bills, gas cards, prescriptions, food, heating and air conditioning, beds, transportation, and other unexpected hardships cancer can bring into a family’s life.
Over the years, it has also meant providing dentures after chemotherapy damaged someone’s teeth, eyeglasses so a friend could safely drive to treatments, cleaning homes when cancer left someone too weak to do it alone, and even fumigating a home so radiation treatments could continue safely.
Because cancer impacts every part of life, there is no need we will not consider.
Every dollar stays right here in Rockingham County, helping local friends and neighbors during some of the hardest moments of their lives.
“For me, The Barry Joyce Center has been a place where I can feel that I am with people who will not judge me, even though my legs are weak, my hair is gone, and I have nephrostomy tubes coming out of my back. In other words, I feel at home.”
-Leslie
