SANTA BARBAR, CALIF. — 57-year-old Marc Weig from St. Johns, Fla., and his wife, Helene, had recently returned from a belated Hawaiian honeymoon made possible by Dream Foundation and Genentech.
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The couple had initially planned on going on their honeymoon when they had married almost 24 years ago but they had never made the trip work out; however, when Marc was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, they realized that it was either “now or never” to take their trip.
V for Victory, a local non-profit, suggested that Marc reach out to the Dream Foundation, the only national dream-granting organization for terminally ill adults.
“My Dream is to give us that honeymoon we never got,” Marc wrote to the Dream Foundation. “I would be so grateful if we could make the trip of a lifetime together before it is too late.”
The trip was soon granted to Marc and his family.
Tiffany Doering of Genentech, a biotechnology company that is partnered with the Dream Foundation, had helped provide everything Marc and his family would need ahead of and during their trip.
With help from the local community in Kihei, Hawaii, Marc, Helene, and Marc Jr., the youngest of the couple’s six children, spent six days and five nights exploring the island of Maui. Their honeymoon was complete with a morning cruise.
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