Last week, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Wawa and The Wawa Foundation hosted their second annual Helping Hands Community Care Challenge. The event brought hundreds of representatives from the corporate community together for a high-energy, high-impact day of service to make a tangible difference for CHOP patients and their families.
Throughout the volunteer event, participants gathered resources and packed 30,000 kits to support a diverse set of programs and patient populations at CHOP, including:
- Activity kits to bring joy and comfort to inpatients, supporting the Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy Department, which promotes positive coping and self-expression for children navigating illness, injury, and treatment.
- Mental health care kits for the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which provides essential emotional, behavioral, and mental health services to children of all ages.
Funds raised through Helping Hands support Wawa Volunteer Services at CHOP, empowers the expansion of the volunteer program, engages more community members in CHOP’s mission and spreads a ripple effect of kindness throughout the hospital and beyond.
Additionally at the event, The Wawa Foundation announced a $300,000 gift to establish a new Donation Center at CHOP’s Services and Logistics Center, which serves as a central hub for hospital-wide supplies. Through the new Donation Center, volunteers will have meaningful opportunities to support patients and families by assembling activity kits, sorting in-kind donations, and preparing comfort kits that will be distributed throughout CHOP’s entire Care Network. This initiative will expand the hospital’s reach, bringing more resources to more children, while also engaging a wider range of volunteer groups. Because the Services and Logistics Center is a non-clinical environment, the Center will make it easier and more accessible for individuals and organizations to get involved in volunteering, broadening the impact of CHOP’s mission across the region.
To learn more about the Helping Hands Community Care Challenge and its impact in the CHOP community, visit helpinghands.chop.edu.
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Last week, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Wawa and The Wawa Foundation hosted their second annual Helping Hands Community Care Challenge. The event brought hundreds of representatives from the corporate community together for a high-energy, high-impact day of service to make a tangible difference for CHOP patients and their families.
Throughout the volunteer event, participants gathered resources and packed 30,000 kits to support a diverse set of programs and patient populations at CHOP, including:
- Activity kits to bring joy and comfort to inpatients, supporting the Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy Department, which promotes positive coping and self-expression for children navigating illness, injury, and treatment.
- Mental health care kits for the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which provides essential emotional, behavioral, and mental health services to children of all ages.
Funds raised through Helping Hands support Wawa Volunteer Services at CHOP, empowers the expansion of the volunteer program, engages more community members in CHOP’s mission and spreads a ripple effect of kindness throughout the hospital and beyond.
Additionally at the event, The Wawa Foundation announced a $300,000 gift to establish a new Donation Center at CHOP’s Services and Logistics Center, which serves as a central hub for hospital-wide supplies. Through the new Donation Center, volunteers will have meaningful opportunities to support patients and families by assembling activity kits, sorting in-kind donations, and preparing comfort kits that will be distributed throughout CHOP’s entire Care Network. This initiative will expand the hospital’s reach, bringing more resources to more children, while also engaging a wider range of volunteer groups. Because the Services and Logistics Center is a non-clinical environment, the Center will make it easier and more accessible for individuals and organizations to get involved in volunteering, broadening the impact of CHOP’s mission across the region.
To learn more about the Helping Hands Community Care Challenge and its impact in the CHOP community, visit helpinghands.chop.edu.
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