Bears for a Cause

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by joannagreer in News Around School

Childrens' Inn patient meets her new bear

Bears for a Cause is a project that was started at Kennedy in 2008.  It is manned by a small group of Leadership Training Institute seniors raising money through bake sales, fundraisers, and donations to buy Build-a-Bears for terminally ill kids residing at the Children’s Inn at NIH. The Children’s Inn is a “place like home” built for kids and their families to stay while they are receiving treatment at NIH. From September to December, the students raised about $650 and used it to buy 25 bears and 25 outfits. On December 17 approximately 15 children attended and 10 other bears were made for the patients who were too sick to come. The Childrens’ Inn directors said it was the happiest they had ever seen some of the kids, and that made the whole process of the project completely worth it.