MONTREAL – Last month, we met James Thomas Lowden and his mother, Sarah.
Instead of gifts for his 11th birthday, James asked for donations for the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
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And Thursday night, the hospital invited him to say thanks.
“It’s great,” said Sarah Thomas.”It lets the kids know that we acknowledge that you did that, thank you for that.”
This past year, hundreds of children donated a total of $125,000 to the hospital.
The donations provide sick children with music and art programs and also helps buy important medical equipment.
“They are so incredibly amazing,” said Kim Fraser, a hospital spokesperson. “And I think you can’t thank people enough when they do something for other people. We think the world of them.”
The hospital invited around 50 children to the P.K. Subban Atrium at the Montreal Children’s for a dinner, activities and other goodies.
Isabella Poliziani, 16, was among those invited.
She started fundraising for the hospital when she was 10, after a friend was diagnosed with cancer.
“I do it every year and it’s a skating party so we rent out an arena, a whole bunch of my friends come, have a good time and they donate some money,” she said. “So usually every year we get about $1000.”
She said as she gets older, she continues to realize that not only did her friend need the donation, other kids did as well.
“Every person in this hospital has their own issue and I feel like it’s all of our duties to help them in the best way we can,” she said.
For Matthew Anderson, his donation came around his 8th birthday, after his own visit at the hospital.
“A year before that I broke my femur in a ski accident and I went to the Children’s Hospital and I realized that there are people with a lot worse accidents that can’t even get out of the hospital,” he said.
This was the first annual dinner the hospital hosted for these young ambassadors, but the hospital plans to continue the tradition for years to come.
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