Our Past Projects
2021 Operation Christmas Card
Middle school and high school students from South Florida attended the Operation Christmas Card event and made cards for pediatric patients that spent the holidays in the hospital. Cards included affirmations, prayers, and words of encouragement for patients.
2021 Youth Christmas Drive
Over 1oo students from local schools gathered, collected, and sorted gifts and stress relief items for children hospitalized during the holidays. Over $20,000 in donations were collected, including: fluffy socks, blankets, toys, arts and crafts supplies, stress balls, putty, and books.
2021 Not-So-Scary Halloween Drive
During the Halloween weekend, we collaborated with local schools to collect stress relief items for children waiting for organ transplant surgery or recieving cancer treat at Joe DiMaggio’s children hospital. Over $6000 in donations was collected. Student volunteers helped design and carry out this project.
2021 Crowns & Tiaras For Brie & Aria
With the help of high school ambasadors, we prepared a personalized princess-themed gift basket for sisters Brie and Aria. Brie suffered from cancer, while Aria has Metachromatic Leukodystrophy. Sofia, one of our ambassadors, hosted a collection with her classmates. She collected princess themed T-shirts and prepared a personalized quilt for each of the sisters.
2021 Shining with Ellie
Through social media fundraising university students from across the state of FL, collected funds to help pay for Ellie’s medical expenses. Ellie suffered from an anaplastic ependymoma (a type of tumor in the CNS). We prepared a gift basket with some of Ellie’s favorite items. We also collected cards and goodies from our ambassadors for Ellie and her family.
2021 Cheering for Avery
With help from Florida cheerleading teams, The Children’s Charity collected team T-shirts and put together a T-shirt quilt for Avery Barnes during her long and difficult recovery. Avery is a survivor of an unfortunate and extremely serious motor vehicle accident. Doctors were skeptical about her survival and recovery, but she pulled through and is working on coming back stronger than ever. One of our ambassadors, Sofia Plasencia, organized this project and contacted teams from the Florida cheerleading community. These teams also assisted in putting together a get-well video for Avery in order to boost her spirit and morale.
2020 Crafts for Children
With the help of over 3o local businesses, schools, and organizations, The Children’s Charity collected over 4300 arts and crafts supplies for the children of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital—a donation valued at over $20,000 dollars. The materials were distributed to the children on Christmas day. Amidst a pandemic, we were so glad to be able to give back to the community’s children and continue our Crafts for Children tradition!
2020 Messages for Amor
During the span of just a couple weeks, The Children’s Charity organized a collection of motivational cards for Amor and her family. Amor is a true fighter who at the age of 1 suffers from Biliary Atresia. Throughout the time of the collection, Amor had been battling multiple complications due to the condition while awaiting a liver transplant. With the help of our local community, The Children’s Charity donated a package filled with uplifting messages and various comfort items.
2020 Cards for Anthony
With help from college students around the country, The Children’s Charity collected get well cards for Anthony Parodi during the hectic COVID-19 pandemic. Anthony is a superhero that suffers from Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. At the time of the collection, Anthony had spent over six months in the hospital waiting for a heart and liver transplant. Our board members donated comforting items for Anthony and together we sent him a loving care package filled with kind words from supporters of Hearts for Anthony.
2019 Crafts for Children
With the winter season approaching, our organization was able to donate over one thousand four hundred new school supplies to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Spread Joy Toy Drive. Without the help of Archbishop Edward A McCarthy High School’s students and faculty this could not have been accomplished. Supplies varied from pencils, crayons, markers, sketchbooks, notebooks, and so on. It was an incredible effort that brought hundreds of hospitalized children new study materials.
2018 Bears for Babies
It all begins with an idea. After researching the effect of environment on pediatric patient recovery, the Bears for Babies service project became reality. With the help of Archbishop Edward A McCarthy High School’s Maverick Medicine Club, over seven hundred stuffed animals were collected for local pediatric hospitals and organizations. The 2018 Bears for Babies project was our first initiative. It exceeded expectations and paved the path for future efforts.