Dan Dewy’s simple-yet-amazing story of charity began when his father, after beating Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2002, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, and began chemotherapy treatment at Pontiac’s St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital in 2006. Dan started buying coffee for his dad while he went through the treatments, and before leaving, Dan would ask everyone else in the room if they wanted anything. People warmed up to his gentle sincerity pretty quickly and started placing their orders, whereupon Dan would then head to a local coffee shop, make the sometimes very large order, stack all the drinks one upon the other, and deliver them to the patients and staff at the Hospital. After eight weeks of this, Dan’s father beat his cancer and was discharged from the cancer ward, and yet Dan decided to just kept bringing everyone coffee.

And that’s how he started making “Dan’s Coffee Run” two times a week, delivering on average 90 cups of coffee, hot chocolate and tea to the patients and staff of St. Joseph’s Cancer Center, the Rose Cancer Center, and CARE House of Oakland County (which advocates for abused children). And he does this out of the goodness of his heart — and he does it every single week of every single year, having missed only one week of deliveries since 2006.

“Their smiles are all I need to keep showing up.” ~ Dan Dewey

 

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