Dance Marathon registration now open
Posted on: January 27, 2021; Updated on: January 27, 2021
University of South Carolina Dance Marathon registration is now open.
USCDM is the largest student-run philanthropic organization on campus. It brings together students and the broader campus community to raise funds for the Child Life Program at Prisma Health Children s Hospital, the local Children s Miracle Network Hospital. Now celebrating its 23rd year, Dance Marathon at UofSC has raised over $6.7 million to help improve the lives of more than 150,000 children across the state.
Several events are hosted throughout the year, including the spring Main Event, which is a 14-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon that celebrates a year of raising
For National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is delivering 100 Lego sets to Worcester pediatric cancer patients and kids in need
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Matt Laramie, the founder of Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids with Cancer, is aiming to donate 500 sets of Legos. He has made donations already at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Courtesy photo.
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With Thursday marking National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is continuing the effort he started with “Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids with Cancer” by dropping off 100 Lego sets to pediatric cancer patients in Worcester and other children who are in need.
Laramie, of Worcester, is hoping the national day will draw some more attention to programs for children in need and encourage people to donate a favorite childhood toy.
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Michael Contreras had just laid his 8-month-old son, Ethan, down to sleep on the oncology ward of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Christmas Eve when a jolly red stranger appeared in the room.
“I was like, ‘Oh, Santa!’” Contreras said. “I didn’t know they were going to do that due to COVID.”
Having a child in the hospital is agony for any family, but having one stuck there for Christmas can be especially hard. In a typical year, L.A. s children’s hospitals are flooded with Santa Clauses, carolers and other merry-making volunteers who brighten the season for sick kids. But the coronavirus pandemic has made those visits all but impossible, especially for vulnerable children like Ethan, who is undergoing chemotherapy while he awaits a bone-marrow transplant to treat juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.
Consider this the holiday cheer you need as we close out a less than cheerful year.
Santa made a special visit in the NICU at Helen DeVos Children s Hospital to visit the tiniest patients there. In a press release via Spectrum Beat, there s over 80 babies who will be spending their first Christmas in the NICU in Grand Rapids. Santa went around and met each baby and took pictures with them and their parents.
The real gifts though were the adorable babies who were dressed in tutus, bows, hats, and even Santa onesies.
Santa Visits Tiniest Patients in Grand Rapids
The man behind the red suit and white beard is Jason Yakes, an RN in the unit.