Can you Help?

Operation Write Home recently announced that due to the draw down of our troops overseas, they do not need any where near the cards they have been receiving. That is a good thing, of course, and they will continue to collect cards for troops overseas, just not as many.

As a result, SAS4Kids has been contacted by many of those wonderful card makers who have been donating to OWH and are now looking for another cause they can donate to. We are thrilled, of course,  and will happily accept more cards for our kids. But what we really need now is more children's hospitals to donate our cards to.

We would love to help more kids, but what is needed to do that is some more volunteers who are willing to accept sent packages of cards for kids, sort and label them, and bring or send them to a children's hospital or two close by where you live. We have the Midwest covered, but would love a site in the East, West and/or Southern U.S. and even some sites overseas. If you are from Canada, please contact our Canadian sister blog via the side blog badge to see if they have any need for additional sites or volunteers.

If you think you might like to volunteer to help, your first step would be to contact SAS4Kids via the Contact Feature on the side of the blog. If no one else has volunteered in your part of the country (or world), I would approve you to approach children's hospitals close to you to see if they would like to receive cards for their patients. Please read all the pages on the top of the blog and refer the hospital contacts to our blog as well. Feel free to copy and paste any info you want to share. I work with the Child Life or Volunteer Coordinators in the hospitals we currently serve, so that is maybe a place to start when contacting the hospitals.

We truly appreciate all the cards we receive for our kids inpatient in children's hospitals, and will continue to distribute all the cards we receive. Our current needs are mostly fall and winter holiday cards and birthday and thank you cards. Keep in mind the older kids when designing cards too- both boys and girls.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen SAS4Kids

Yes- SAS4Kids Still Wants your Cards for our Kids:)

We are so busy on the challenge side of this blog, I forget to come over here to update this page. I have a rare weekend off,  because only when there is a 5th Saturday in a month do I not have to do a major blog post on the challenge side. We love doing challenges, but the purpose of them is do draw attention to our cause, which is on-going and what we are all about- collecting and distributing hand made cards to cheer kids who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals. If you are here and wondering if we are still collecting cards, we are as long as the challenge blog is current. We intend to continue this cause for as long as we can.

Currently our biggest needs are boys cards of any kind, thank you cards, and holiday cards. It is not too early to start making and sending fall and winter holiday cards because those are times we want to be sure all the kids in the hospitals we serve get a card, and also  can choose cards to share with family and friends. It seems we never have enough cards for boys as well as teenage girls and boys.

We would love to expand to several more locations in the U.S. and even overseas. So if there is a Children's Hospital (or more than one) near you who might like to receive cards for their kids who are inpatient, contact me (via contact form on the side of the blog) for the details and together we might be able to cheer even more kids.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen