Students Send Cards With Love To Hospice Patients

(Above)P.S. 222 third graders, with their art teacher (rear right)and the Director of Volunteer Services at Caring Hospice Services of New York (rear left) showing off the cards for patients.(At right) Pupils make cards with Hospice Services director.

There is nothing greater than the gift of giving and second and third graders of P.S. 222's The After-School Corporation (TASC) program learned that lesson a few weeks ago while making beautiful get-well cards for people in hospice care.

"It's great to have the kids doing something creative for people that are sick because it provides them with a sense of community," said Lauren DePrisco, TASC Director.

With the help of art teacher, Norma Telvi, the students created cards decorated with bows, anchors, and other drawings, which read, "Feel Better," and included personal messages from students to hospice patients.

Kathy Azbell-Muldoon, Director of Volunteer Services at the Caring Hospice Services of New York, said that the cards will be given to many people that are currently in hospice care. The Caring Hospice Services, located at 3071 Avenue U, provides various support programs for people dealing with serious illnesses.

"People who are ill, have bad days and good days, and your artwork is so special that it will help to brighten up their day. It will let them know that someone really cares about them," said Kathy Azbell-Muldoon.

Third grader Shannon Matthews gave Azbell-Muldoon a drawing that read, "Let the sun shine in your life."

The expressive nine-year old said that when she is feeling depressed, art is the only thing that makes "the sun come up in her heart," while holding on to her plush teddy bear.

Hospice care provides comfort to the dying. It affirms life and regards dying as a normal process. Caring Hospice Services provides personalized services and a caring community so that patients and families can attain the necessary preparation for a death that is satisfactory to them.

Thanks to the efforts of City Councilman Lew Fidler, Millennium Development has been operating the program weekdays after school at P.S. 222, at 3301 Quentin Road, for three years. The program provides academic enrichment through an array of activities, which promote interaction, such as comic book projects, science, dance, drama, physical education, art and a newspaper club.

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