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Three childhood friends of retirement age were having breakfast one day

One friend had spent his youth in and out of hospitals.

One friend had gone through chemo and radiation.

One friend has really good hair.

At the booth next to them they could hear a young mother visibly upset on the phone. She was saying this will be the first Thanksgiving we won’t be together because her child was in the hospital and that she will probably be eating Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital cafeteria.  The three friends, visibly shaken by this story, were moved to do something.

Fast forward 2 years later, after jumping through many hoops the friends were able to feed 150 families at Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and on top of that got local artists to draw on the to-go boxes to make a little extra for thanksgiving. And all of the leftover food went to the Salvation Army.

When they finished delivering the meals they saw the joy and gratitude the families felt. How can we do more was the consensus of the three friends.

The “more” turned out to be forming a 501 © (3) non-profit called Kindness in Crisis, Inc.

So far, the “more” has turned into feeding families at Memorial Health Children’s Hospital every third Tuesday of the month.

The “more” has turned into stocking the lounge in the hospital waiting area while parents and grandparents are waiting to hear results of their loved ones’ operation.

The “more” has turned into getting a yoga program at the hospital so parents can somehow deal with their unimaginable stress.

The “more” turned into seeing that Brightside advocacy had lost some of its funding for helping foster children. We asked how we could help. Their immediate need was a young man was about to be aged out of foster care and needed a place to stay. We provided him with a place to stay so he wasn’t on the streets in addition to providing meals at the halfway house he was staying.

The “more” turned into committing to 6 months assistance for housing for kids aging out of Foster Care.

In today’s world, there is so much “more” we are doing and can do.

So please help Steven, Harry, and Henry of Kindness in Crisis keep kindness in motion by donating to this worthy cause.