Delivering happiness to hospitalized children - UPS
UPS and Message of Hope Foundation team up to lift spirits – more help is needed
What’s the story: Happy Hope Bags – and a team of UPSers – bring joy to nearly 100,000 hospitalized children a year.
How it started: As a child, Message of Hope’s founder Emi Burke saw how illnesses were affecting kids while making hospital rounds with her pediatrician father.
UPS and Message of Hope Foundation team up to lift spirits – more help is needed
What’s the story: Happy Hope Bags – and a team of UPSers – bring joy to nearly 100,000 hospitalized children a year.
How it started: As a child, Message of Hope’s founder Emi Burke saw how illnesses were affecting kids while making hospital rounds with her pediatrician father.
- More than 26 years later, she decided to start the foundation in the basement of her Massachusetts home, prompted by her son and the desire to provide sick kids with a much-needed lift.
- “Finding out our youngest son was profoundly disabled, visually impaired and unable to speak, led me back to my purpose,” Emi said.
- She developed Happy Hope Bags, which contain items such as crayons, coloring books and stuffed animals.
