The Mikey’s Way Foundation

The Mikey’s Way Foundation helps kids cope with the boredom, isolation, and stress associated with debilitating treatment for life threatening diseases by distributing handheld electronics to hospitalized children across the country.

The Foundation will hold “Mikey’s Way Days” at local pediatric hospitals where we circle the pediatric floors with our “Mikey’s Way Cart”. Allowing the children an opportunity to choose whatever gift they feel will best help them escape…Mikey’s Way. On the cart is a selection of handheld, educational and interactive electronics that can help a child of any age find the diversion they need to get through the long hours of treatment. We also provide computers, printers and complete entertainment centers for the children’s playrooms at many of these same hospitals.

Michael “Mikey” Friedman founded Mikey’s Way in 2005, at the age of16, after his own stomach ache turned into a four year hospital experience battling a rare and aggressive form of childhood cancer. Mikey became a Harvard University freshman, and National Honor Society student from Easton Connecticut. He knew that physical health was greatly effected by mental well being and that the intense boredom, isolation, and apprehension that accompanied long term treatment could be greatly alleviated by interesting and educational, interactive electronic games. The children could, in a word, escape...Mikey’s Way.