SERVPRO of Westport/Fairfield’s Donation Drive for Connecticut Children’s

12/16/2021 (Permalink)

Our tree is filling up quickly with toy donations for Connecticut Children's!

This year, our team at SERVPRO of Westport/Fairfield chose the Connecticut Children’s Foundation for our annual holiday drive!

About Connecticut Children’s

Connecticut Children’s works with kids in the community to improve their physical and emotional health through family centered care, research, education, and advocacy. Just last over, over 117,000 children were cared for at Connecticut Children’s. The hospital is consistently ranked one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report.

The Connecticut Children’s Foundation raises funds to support the greatest needs of the hospital and its patients - no patient is denied care whether or not their family has the ability to pay. Donations are also essential to fund the hospital’s advanced research. 

Advanced research and resources allows the hospital to help children like Cora, age 2:

“Two-year-old Cora was born with a different sort of heart. Instead of having two arteries, one carrying blood to the lungs and one carrying it to the body, she had only one big blood vessel. She also had a hole in the wall between her heart’s chambers. Together, those features meant that her body’s oxygen-delivery system was not working properly. It’s a rare condition called truncus arteriosus. If untreated, it would have resulted in Cora’s death.”

- Read more about Cora’s story here.

SERVPRO of Westport/Fairfield’s Donation Drive

This year SERVPRO of Westport/Fairfield is hosting a toy drive for the children and families currently staying at Connecticut Children’s Hospital.

Items that are accepted include:

• Fleece Blankets
• Stuffed Animals
• Card Games (Uno, Monopoly Deal, Sushi Go, Phase 10, etc.)
• Playdoh (multi-packs and kits)
• Superhero Action Figures
• Barbies
• Infant toys
• Animal/Character Figurines (dinosaurs, farm animals, etc.)
• LEGOS (small kits)
• Coloring books (including teen coloring books) and Sticker By Numbers
• Matchbox Cars
• Sleep Sacks

SERVPRO of Westport/Fairfield is also collecting monetary donations for Connecticut Children’s to help reach their goals of research, care and advocacy. 

Donate to our GoFundMe here: https://bit.ly/3FuxezM