For our classroom community service project we are collecting items for the Ronald McDonald House and Family Rooms. You can go to the link above to get more complete information about this charity. We have also set up a page just for communicating about our classroom project. You will see flyer's, posters and power point presentations about our project over the rest of the school year. We are doing this project in honor of several of our students and teachers that have used the St. Louis Ronald McDonald House and Family Rooms Charities and have benefited from them directly. Let us teach the children that no matter how small you are you can always make a big difference. Start collecting these items. Bring them into the classroom. We will create a collection box. We will also arrange an after school field trip to deliver these items so the children can see the Ronald McDonald House in person and see where the donations are going. The information below came directly from the RMHC website. I included it into this post so you could see how many people RMHC helps each night.
To keep our Ronald McDonald Houses and Ronald McDonald Family Rooms running as a home, we rely on Wish List item donations. Fifty-nine families stay at our Houses each night and we could use your help in making their stay as comfortable as possible. More than 4,000 families use the Family Rooms each year as well.
We also have eight long-term apartment families who stay at RMHC anywhere from three months up to a year. Many children living in the apartments are immune suppressed. Because of this, these families must cook for themselves. Every week the families fill out a shopping list and we try to fill it and deliver it to them. We are especially low on food items and cleaning supplies. We could use your help!
Ronald McDonald Family Rooms
When families walk into one of our Ronald McDonald Family Rooms, we want them to forget they're in a hospital.
Often steps away from a pediatric or intensive care unit, Ronald McDonald Family Rooms offer a place of refuge to families in the hospital where their child is staying because of illness or injury.
In St. Louis there are three Ronald McDonald Family Rooms: one at St. John's Mercy Children's Hospital, one at St. Louis Children's Hospital, and the latest Family Room opened at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in October 2008.
In 2009, more than 4,000 families found comfort and care at one of our Family Rooms.
Family Room Wish List
Pre-packaged, individually wrapped snack foods including:Cookies, soups, breakfast bars, hot chocolate, trail mix, dried fruit, peanut butter or cheese sandwich
crackers
Travel-sized items:
Diswasher detergent, laundry detergent (high-efficiency), disinfectant spray, disinfectant wipes
Misc.:
Adult sizes (men and women) of scrubs, individual boxes of crayons/coloring books, adult board games
Gift Cards:
Cleaning Supplies:
Disinfectant spray, cleaner, and wipes
Hand sanitizer in the pump container
Soft Scrub
Air freshener, (
Liquid and soap in the pump container
Laundry Supplies:
Softener Sheets
Laundry detergent
Kitchen Supplies:
Dishwasher detergent
Ziploc baggies, (small and large)
Pots and pans, (approximately 16 qt.)
Event and Entertainment Tickets
