{"id":7980,"date":"2011-09-27T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:36:04","slug":"greek-dvd-drive-helps-sick-kids-stay-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/09\/27\/greek-dvd-drive-helps-sick-kids-stay-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek DVD drive helps sick kids stay happy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wednesday, September 28 will be a special day during the DVD drive\u2014organizers will be pushing the Text2Give campaign. Donors will be invited to text \u201c4KIDS\u201d to 85944. They will then receive a confirmation text, to which they must respond \u201cyes.\u201d A donation of $10 will be added to their cell phone bill.<\/p><\/div>\n

Imagine you\u2019re a kid at Dayton Children\u2019s Medical Center stuck in bed after a surgery. You can\u2019t play with your friends. You can\u2019t visit with other patients or even walk around your room. What is there to do?<\/p>\n

Well, at Cincinnati and Dayton Children\u2019s hospitals, the staff hopes to provide bedridden children with DVDs and video games to make their time stuck in bed easier to pass. Unfortunately, funding for this kind of endeavor is limited, and the hospitals\u2019 stashes of entertainments are quickly being drained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DVDs and the games are leaving at a rate that\u2019s faster than they can replenish,\u201d said Rachel McClain, the director of campus recruitment at Northwestern Mutual\u2013Miami Valley. \u201cA lot of times they\u2019re broken, they\u2019re lost, they don\u2019t work anymore.\u201d Or, said McClain, because the Children\u2019s hospitals give patients so many gifts, sometimes kids think they can take the DVDs home.<\/p>\n

Northwestern Mutual was approached by Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center earlier this year to create a fundraiser to benefit their DVD and videogame program. McClain, a Wright State University alumna, contacted the Greek communities at Wright State and University of Dayton to get local colleges involved.<\/p>\n

At Wright State, McClain met with Gina Keucher, assistant director of Greek affairs. \u201cGina kind of came up with the idea that if there was a competition between UD and Wright State Greek life, they\u2019d really get behind that because there\u2019s kind of a cross-town rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collection bins for kid-friendly DVDs and Playstation 2 games will be set up on Wright State\u2019s campus Sept. 26\u201330. There will be bins in the Student Activities office and the Greek affairs office, and a team will be on the quad on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will be a special day during the DVD drive\u2014organizers will be pushing the Text2Give campaign. Donors will be invited to text \u201c4KIDS\u201d to 85944. They will then receive a confirmation text, to which they must respond \u201cyes.\u201d A donation of $10 will be added to their cell phone bill.<\/p>\n

McClain said that when Children\u2019s Hospital get funding from an outside source the money typically goes to state-of-the-art-equipment. \u201cThings like DVDs often go unnoticed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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