Founder of Hugs & Hope for Sick Children
I was in an online prayer group where I heard about a 4-yeard old with an inoperable brain tumor. I corresponded with his grandma and we became friends. I sent her grandson some cards and one of the kids' Sunday school classes at church sent him a package. Other friends sent him cards too; and after a while, so many people were asking me how Mikey was doing, that I decided to make him a web page with updates for people to read. After I did that, other families of sick kids heard about it and began emailing me and asking if I would make their kids' web pages too. They wanted their kids to receive cards because they didn't have anything to look forward to and they loved getting mail.
After a while, the site that began as a couple pages with a few kids' stories grew to have a hundred kids featured. Over the past eight years, there have been hundreds of kids involved at various times.
As more and more people got involved sending mail to the kids, we just kept coming up with more ideas like the chat group, the newsletter, the parent pal program (www.hugsandhope.org/parentpals.htm ) the balloon program (www.hugsandhope.org/balloonsfor kids.htm ) the birthday party in a box program (www.hugsandhope.org/birthdayboxes.htm ) and the Christmas Elf project (www.hugsandhope.org/elf.htm ) etc.
#2. Do the parents of the children you help ever write to you?
They write to me all the time telling me how much the HUGS and HOPE group means to them and their kids. One mother said her son kept the cards under his pillow at night and told her, "I can't believe so many people love me." It warms the parents hearts to see their kids smile, because they often haven't seen that for a long time.
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