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Children Suffering from Serious Illness

Children confined to long hospital stays or living in a hospice or rehabilitation center struggle with separation from their homes, friends, and the normal patterns of their young lives now disrupted by illness.

K.I.D.S. knows that when we donate a new children’s book, we can transport a child to another place, or when we donate a new children’s toy, we can create an opportunity to play with a new friend in an otherwise foreboding setting.

For several years, K.I.D.S. has made the playrooms in the Boston Medical Center (BMC) a more joyful place for children by providing new toys and books. This partnership also gives needed clothes for people served by out-patient services and for those who use the hospital’s food and clothing bank. Sensitive to the economic hardships of their patients, BMC is one of the few medical centers in the country which makes a food and clothing pantry available to its patients.

K.I.D.S. works with various agencies and clinics to provide juvenile products, particularly cribs, to families in need. The donation of a crib can potentially help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndome (S.I.D.S.), which can be caused when infants sleep in their parents’ beds because they don’t have the money to buy a crib.

K.I.D.S. also provides clothing and “newborn baskets” for clinics, such as the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center in Massachusetts.

“The families at Brockton Neighborhood Health Center who have received the clothing from K.I.D.S. are so very thankful. Many of the families that come to the Health Center have little or no means to care for themselves. That combined with the stress of providing for a family can seem insurmountable to many of these heads of households. By providing these families with a small token of our support and encouragement, we are helping them to remember that, with each step they take, we as their healthcare provider will be there to help in any way that we can. I did not realize at the start of the ‘newborn baskets’ that we would make such an impact on the lives of our patients. Many of our families are speechless when we hand them the basket. Who would have thought a thermometer, some socks, and a warm outfit would mean as much as it does. “
- Latisha Akeke, LPN, Pediatric Charge Nurse