{"id":3778,"date":"2022-03-09T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:16:07","slug":"cards-for-hospitalized-kids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/cards-for-hospitalized-kids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cards for Hospitalized Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Contributor -C. Sanchez<br \/>\nThe purpose of Cards for Hospitalized Kids is to provide handwritten cards of encouragement for children who are in the hospital. Many of these children have chronic or life-threatening illnesses. Ultimately, the founder of this organization\u2019s aim is to uplift these children with simple words of encouragement.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2022\/03\/be-brave-300x225-1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium alignleft wp-image-3780\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This organization has sent over 14,000 cards of encouragement to more than 150 hospitals nationwide. The cards are created by local and national volunteers. Cards can be sent individually or through communities such as churches and sport groups. The cards help children see that there are people in the world who care. Children are encouraged to know that they are not only supported by their families and friends, but by other children and adults around the globe. This organization has been in existence for over 11 years, and it continues to impact hospitalized children on a national level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2022\/03\/images.jpg\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-3781\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Teachers and their students can easily partner with the \u201cCards for Hospitalized Kids\u201d organization. Teachers can help students write and create encouraging cards for the numerous hospitalized children around the world. Once the students write these cards, the teacher can mail them to the \u201cCard for Hospitalized Kids\u201d address. This organization provides personal stories from card recipients. Therefore, when partnering with this organization, teachers can show these stories to their students. This helps students conceptualize what they are doing and understand that their cards are being sent to real children that are just like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of Cards for Hospitalized Kids is to provide handwritten cards of encouragement for children who are in the hospital. Many of these children have chronic or life-threatening illnesses. Ultimately, the founder of this organization\u2019s aim is to uplift these children with simple words of encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care","tag-national-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}