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Penn State students and community members work tirelessly to enhance the lives of children and families impacted by childhood cancer through THON. But Penn State’s local connection with pediatric cancer runs even deeper through an initiative called the Jared Box Project. The Jared Box Project was started locally in 2001 in memory and honor of Jared McMullen, a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosed with an incurable brainstem tumor in 1999. “Jared always took a backpack filled with toys [to the hospital],” Jared Box Project Executive Director Cindy Kolarik said. “Jared actually noticed othe...
Civic Service Report 6:23 pm The pandemic has changed the way we do a lot of things and for a local non-profit it’s no different. In this week’s Civic Service Report how things have shifted for the Jared Box Project and yet how you can still get involved. These are Jared Boxes. “It’s just filled with different toys and games and we donate them to kids in the hospital again to help keep their minds off the treatment they’re going through and some fun things to do while in the hospital.” And since the project started back in 2001, 900-thousand of these boxes have been...