Your donations make a difference. See below how your contributions make a lifelong impact on the lives of children in pediatric hospitals.
Thank you for helping us be kids.
Thank you for helping us play.
Thank you for helping us heal.
“...I found myself in a brightly-colored, brightly-lit room with three or four un-inhabited stretchers and a clutch of children in hospital gowns playing Playstation...”
“I am a pediatrician at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and I see firsthand what charities like yours do for children...”
“As part of our coping plan, the patient played the DS (which was generously donated by Child's Play) while getting stitches.”
“When we couldn't be there with him, two things the hospital had available got his mind off the situation: Nintendo and movies...”
“Video games didn't save my life, and I didn't have a terminal disease, but they took what could have been one of the worst experiences of my life and made it my most positive hospital-related experience to date.”
“I have a couple of older boys that were not wanting to come talk to anyone about the domestic violence in their home. One of the boys saw Xbox and made his own appointment...”