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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services
Mission: Building Better Days is a nonprofit charity that gives building toys to children who need to have better days in the hospital. We provide a building toy for each child admitted for two or more nights in the hospital, recovering from surgery or who has a serious illness and is in and out of the hospital often.
Results: We've delivered over 900 toys to local hospitals in Anne Arundel County, Talbot County and Montgomery County in Maryland.
Target demographics: We provide building toys for children who need to have better days in the hospital.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 421 kids in the hospital
Geographic areas served: Maryland
Programs: Our goal is to help hospitalized children have better days. We believe that days spent in the hospital take children away from their lives spent running, playing and enjoying their friends. We want to give children a piece of childhood by providing building and constructing toys. Our hope is that it will take their minds off the treatments and procedures that they are going through, help them connect to their creative selves, and make new friends by sharing their creations with others.