The founder of the Jefferson City-based Red Slipper Warrior Project (RSWP) says a good support system is critical for those who are battling cancer. Jefferson City’s Tim Tinnin founded the RSWP after his late wife Angie was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. The Red Slipper Warrior Project has expanded to Columbia-based MU Health Care. Every little girl receiving cancer treatment at MU Health Care now receives a go-bag, sparkly slippers and a stuffed bunny rabbit, so they know they’re not fighting alone. Mr.Tinnin joined us live on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri” to preview the February 3 Hollywood Nights event at Jefferson City’s Capitol Plaza Hotel. All proceeds will benefit the RSWP:
(LISTEN): Mizzou fraternity/sorority members praised for their role in helping with child cancer project
Missouri’s lieutenant governor is praising numerous Mizzou fraternity and sorority members who’ve helped expand the Red Slipper Warrior Project (RSWP) to Columbia’s MU Health Care.
Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe spoke at the recent announcement at a Columbia fraternity.
“These men and women, young men and women, do an incredible amount of good on these college campuses, including here in Columbia. And today is a great demonstration of how a fraternal system, whether it’s a sorority or fraternity, does so much to help and give back to the community,” Kehoe says.
The RSWP was founded by Jefferson City’s Tim Tinnin after his late wife Angie was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. Mr. Tinnin tells 939 the Eagle that a good support system is critical for those who are battling cancer.
“I believe it was Stanford that did the study that said that with a positive support system during cancer treatment, you can expect a 20 to 30 percent better outcome. And that’s just powerful. And if there was a pill that gave you that, people would be lined up around the corner and it would cost $10,000. And there is no pill, but we are a pill and we’re a very effective pill,” says Tinnin.
The Red Slipper Warrior Project provides little girls with cancer with a go-bag, sparkly slippers and Hope, which is a stuffed bunny rabbit. The RSWP has expanded to Columbia-based MU Health Care.
(LISTEN): Columbia’s MU Health Care now participating in red slipper warrior project
Missouri’s lieutenant governor is praising Columbia-based MU Health Care for expanding the Red Slipper Warrior Project (RSWP).
Every little girl receiving cancer treatment at MU Health Care will receive a go-bag, sparkly slippers and a stuffed bunny rabbit, so they know they’re not fighting alone. Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe attended the recent announcement at a Columbia fraternity, and discussed his late sister, who lost her battle with childhood cancer.
“Well what Tim (Red Slipper Warrior Project founder Tim Tinnin) does and the Red Slipper Warrior Project does as you heard him say whether it’s a grown woman through shoes making them feel beautiful or giving them the bunny rabbit to make sure that they have somebody they think is on our side is very personal to us because my sister 62 years ago had a stick horse named Trigger that she would sleep with and lay with. And we lost my sister but my mom always lived kind of what she was about and the quality of her life and what that stick horse meant to her for the balance of my mother’s life,” Lt. Governor Kehoe says.
The RSWP was founded by Jefferson City’s Tim Tinnin after his late wife Angie was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. She often remarked that she felt like cancer had become all she was. Mr. Tinnin tells 939 the Eagle that they have sent packages to 23 states, Canada and the United Kingdom, and they are thrilled to be launching the project on a wider scale at MU Health Care.
Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson is throwing her support behind the Red Slipper Warrior Project’s expansion, as they work with MU Health Care. Teresa Parson tells 939 the Eagle that she’s focused on children’s issues, as First Lady.
“I wanted to be here in support today of the Red Slipper Warrior Project because it’s a tremendous program for adults but now they’re moving into the children’s oncology here at MU Health Care, and so I definitely wanted to be here in support of all of the children across the state and of the Red Slipper Warrior Project,” Mrs. Parson says.
The announcement was made at Mizzou’s Theta Chi fraternity on Columbia’s East Stewart road.