Third graders in New Haven are hoping to lift the spirits of patients at Yale-New Haven’s Children’s Hospital this holiday season.
“Hope you feel better soon, wish you a lot of strength, from Aurora, go you, you rock,” Aurora Chevalier said, reading the get well card she wrote.
Her classmates from King-Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School in New Haven put together sixty care packages to be dropped off with patients next week.
“Because we don’t want nobody to feel like they’re left out and they’re left alone,” third grader Antoine Williams said.
The students learned about the Yale children’s hospital and then created custom comfort bags from t-shirt donations.
“There’s little stuffed animals for the kids who are sick to like snuggle with and stuff,” third grader Jayla Johnson said.
At the Friday morning Spread the Love assembly, the students presented the care packages to the gift coordinator from the hospital.
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“And it touched my heart because I’m very philanthropic,” Scotti Williams, of Yale-New Haven Hospital said, “I give back to the community all the time so I think it’s wonderful and I think it’s great that the school is teaching them from such a young age to start now giving back to the community because every little bit helps.”
The stuffed animals came from the overflow of Sandy Hook donations.
