Support A Local Charity With International Reach

Lizzie Sorensen's (co-founder of SaratogaMama) daughter Ruby was born with a hemangioma. Her family is fortunate that her hemangioma naturally regressed on its own and now at almost 5 years old it is nothing but a faint pink patch near her mouth. However some children are not that lucky and their birthmarks interfere with their eyesight, eating, and daily lives, or become part of a larger illness. We can help them. And we can do it with our gently used and fashionable handbags! There are already some great bags to bid on. Handbags by Kate Spade, Treesje, and Coach.


The Vascular Birthmark Foundation is a locally based charity with International reach. The mission is to educate families and assist those in need of treatment who have vascular birthmarks such as Hemangiomas, Port Wine Stains and Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Vascular Birthmarks can be life threatening and nearly impossible to treat. This takes a lot of money and there are only a handful of talented doctors and surgeons world-wide who can help. With your donation and or purchase during this fun event, you can help sponsor a family so that they can meet with these top doctors in person and step toward treatment!



You can help to “Sponsor A Family” so that they can attend the VBF annual medical conference and receive a treatment plan. Donate a new or gently used high-end, vintage, or designer handbag or bid on one at www.birthmark.org. Both ways help!

Tell your family, friends, or colleagues that they can help too by donating or bidding on a handbag.

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Did you know.....
One in ten children are born with a vascular birthmark, or 400,000, each year in the United States (based on the 2003 census). Of these infants, 1 in 10, or 40,000 are born with a vascular birthmark that will require the opinion of a medical specialist. There are two categories of vascular birthmarks: hemangiomas, which are the most common tumor of infancy, and vascular malformations. These two categories, while related, are very different. It is very important to know the difference because the treatment is different depending on the lesion type. Read more about the organization here.