Children's Hospital Charity
Each year during the holidays the Carolina Chapter of the 101st Airborne Division Association donates Christmas gifts of toys to a children’s hospital as part of its annual charity outreach. The chapter uses money derived from raffle sales at meetings throughout the year and anonymous donors add to the fund to purchase the gifts.
Because the Chapter includes both North and South Carolina, these gifts are rotated from one state to the other each year. In 2011, it was a hospital in North Carolina’s turn to receive the Christmas gifts. On December 16th, 2011, members of the Carolina Chapter visited patients at Presbyterian Hemby Children’s Hospital located at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hemby Children's Hospital is a place where a highly specialized multidisciplinary team of pediatric professionals delivers remarkable care in a child-centered environment. Being in the hospital during the holidays is difficult, especially for a child and their family. So Hemby's reaches out to the community for help to make sure that every hospitalized child has a happy holiday season.
Chapter members Ron Frawley and his wife Sonia, and Bill Swenson and his wife Flip, handed out lots of presents to the children at Hemby Children’s Hospital.
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