Games and puzzles needed for children with cancer...

[Beemerguy53]

An old Fire Department comrade posted this on a social networking site this evening...

"I got an email from the Director of the Children's Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital thanking me. The kids there are not permitted to use electronic devices, so they play board games. The younger ones play Chutes and Ladders and Candyland, the middle ones play Checkers, Parcheesi, and Monopoly, the older ones play Stratego, Chess, and Risk. The game boards are all falling apart and the pieces are missing or lost. These are kids between 5 and 15, male and female, and are bald from radiation and vomit every day from chemotherapy treatment. Does anyone mind buying a board game so they have something to look forward to?

Johns Hopkins Hospital
Pediatric Oncology Center
600 N Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-955-6132 "

If you're inclined to help, you can shop at a store website or Amazon, and have the items you buy shipped directly to Hopkins.

Thanks for your consideration!

 

[futuresmithandwesson40]

John Hopkins will accept packages from unknown shippers?

 

[Beemerguy53]

John Hopkins will accept packages from unknown shippers?

Apparently they will.

I placed an order with Amazon this evening and had it sent directly to them, after I checked with my friend on what would be the best way to deliver it to them. And the shipper won't exactly be unknown...it will be from Amazon.

 

[futuresmithandwesson40]

Apparently they will.

I placed an order with Amazon this evening and had it sent directly to them, after I checked with my friend on what would be the best way to deliver it to them. And the shipper won't exactly be unknown...it will be from Amazon.

ok, just wanted to make sure other wise I'd find a way to donate directly to John Hopkins... never hurts to help make things a little easier fro them with all they go through, they have more heart then I'll ever have.