Children in hospital over the holidays received in kind gifts

Along with a number of donations recognized in our last edition of 2010, we would like to acknowledge a number of other generous groups who donated toys for children staying in hospital.

A delegation of members of Our Lady of Lebanon parish visited RVAP to make a large donation of gifts from the congregation.This annual donation was a special event for Roy Houkayem, among the group who came to the hospital for the event. He described his memories of being at the hospital for his appendix over the Christmas holiday as a young child, about 10 years ago. Now 18, he remembers the lasting impact it made on him to receive a toy during his stay. Today he is very pleased to give back, he said.

Also of note, Follow the Sun tanning salon and Aeropostale presented gifts of toys and teddy bears to the Foundation to distribute to children in the hospital. Aeropostale in the Pickering Town Centre donated teddy bears with red hoods.

All of the donations were shared between hospital departments such as emergency,surgical, fracture clinic, laboratory and paediatrics. Our thanks to all of those who made toy and game donations to the children of our hospitals this past holiday season.