Helping Keiki Patients At Kapiolani

The holidays are here, and tis the season for giving! Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children needs your kokua, to help meet the needs of its keiki patients through the Child’s Play program.

Child's Play is a national charity that was created to allow gamers and geeks around the world to raise money and collect toys and games for sick keiki in children's hospitals. Within the past three years over a million dollars in cash and good have been raised. So far for this year over $200,000 has been contributed.

This year Child's Play expanded worldwide to assist children's hospitals across the globe. Kapiolani Children's Hospital was one of the fortunate hospitals that was selected as a part of the Child's Play Network. The network was created by the creators of online gaming comic Penny Arcade (www.penny-arcade.com).

You don't have to be a gamer nor a geek to participate in this worthy effort. Go to www.childsplaycharity.org and click on the game controller on Hawaii. Doing this will take you right to Kapiolani's Amazon (www.amazon.com) wish list. Your items will be sent directly to the hospital, but remember to change the shipping address to Kapiolani's address during the check out process to ensure it gets there directly. If you order at least $25 worth of goodies, the shipping is free.

When you go to Kapiolani’s wish list, you’ll see a variety of items ranging from books to video games to game consoles. Each item indicates the desired amount, priority (low, medium or high) and how many were actually received. Conveniently, you can also view the items by purchased/purchased or product categories to help make your decision. Whatever your donation budget is, you can surely spare some extra bucks and a few mouse clicks to contribute.