MUSC children's holiday greeting cards on sale
This year, send your holiday greetings on cards created especially for the season by Children’s Hospital patients.Now in its eighth year, the Kids Helping Kids Holiday Card Project will raise funds to support research and programs at the Children’s Hospital.
The
annual “Kids Helping Kids” Holiday Card Project got off to a good start
as the young artists posed with area members of the Kiwanis Clubs of Charleston
during a reception in their honor Nov. 1. The children, all former patients
at MUSC Children's Hospital, created 20 works of art featuring a Christmas
theme. Artists pictured are: Richie Ellie, Haley Evans, Hannah Martin,
Monica Kreber, Emily Horres, Brandon Peek, Chelsea Hamner and Sherrel Singleton.
For more on the card project, see page 14.
Each year, the local businesses who sponsor the project select artwork to be included in the pack of cards. Because these sponsors underwrite the cards' production costs, all proceeds from the project directly the Children’s Hospital. Last year, “Kids Helping Kids” raised about $60,000. A set of 20 cards and envelopes is $10. Cards are available now and can be ordered by calling 792-1112. Orders should be placed prior to Dec. 1 to ensure delivery.
Children's
Hospital Fund helper Christie Whitener presents 11-year-old artist Sherrel
Singleton of Mount Pleasant with a box of complimentary holiday cards.
Cards can also be purchased at Jordan Medical Bookstore (162 Ashley Ave.) MUSC Wellness Center, MUSC Volunteer Office, local branches of BB&T, Bank of America, First Union National Bank, First Federal of Charleston and South Carolina Federal Credit Union, and all SunCom retail outlets.
MUSC Children's Hospital patients whose artwork was selected for the 2000 Kids Helping Kids Holiday Card Project are:
Richie Ellis, an 8-year-old sickle cell
patient from Florence, SC
Haley Evans, a 10-year-old leukemia patient
from Ruffin
Timothy Floyd, a 6-year-old patient AMED
patient from Georgetown
Chelsea Hamner, a 7-year-old LCAD deficiency
patient from Ladson
Zachary Hodge, a 10-year-old from Manning
who contributed the artwork in honor of his 6-year-old cousin Kayla Mathis,
a leukemia patient,
Emily Horres, a 7-year-old patient ITP
patient from Folly Beach
Monica Kreber, a 10-year-old leukemia
patient from Mount Pleasant
Hannah Martin, a 7-year-old cystic fibrosis
patient from Summerville
Kayla Mathis, a 6-year-old leukemia patient
from Summerton
Kristen McCall, a 15-year-old renal failure
and kidney transplant patient from Greenville,
Sofia McFadden, an 11-year-old from Moncks
Corner who contributed the artwork in honor of her 10-year-old sister Samantha,
an intestinal disorders patient,
Brandon Peek, a 6-year-old cerebral palsy
patient from Dorchester,
Ronald Rivers, an 8-year-old patient from
North Charleston waiting for a liver transplant
Sherrel Singleton, an 11-year-old acute
major eye infection patient from Mount Pleasant
Daniel Stemke, a 9-year-old liver transplant
patient from Mount Pleasant
Anne Marie Westbrook, an 8-year-old leukemia
patient from Myrtle Beach
2000 Holiday Card Project Sponsors
Alcoa Mt. Holly; AstenJohnson, Inc; Bank of America; The Beach Company;
Blackbaud; CB Richard Ellis/Carmody; Cullum Mechanical Construction; Mr.
and Mrs. David Gilston; Howe & Wyndham LLP; IVS Video; Johnson Controls
Inc.; JW Aluminum Company; Robert Bosch Corporation; Royal & SunAlliance;
Santee Cooper; Seaboard & Co.; Skatell’s Manufacturing Jewelers;
South Carolina Stingrays; Verizon Wireless; and William M. Bird & Company
Inc.