HOUSTON – Harrison’s Heroes partnered with MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital and Sunshine Kids to create an indoor tree farm experience, where young patients browse around to choose their own Christmas tree for their room.
With four-foot-tall white artificial trees provided by Harrison’s Heroes and design inspiration including a tutorial from Regina Gust of Regina Gust Designs.
Each entered the indoor tree farm and tagged their themed tree and enjoyed hot cocoa, cookies and crafts.
Harrison’s Heroes was founded in loving memory of Harrison Kothari. At age two, Harrison spent several months in and out of the hospital before passing away in December 2010. Like many parents and caregivers, Harrison’s family went to great lengths to stay by his side at all hours of the day. It is now his family’s mission to help other hospitalized children with a nonprofit organization founded in Harrison’s name. The foundation is committed to “Comforting Kids. Creating Smiles.”
In addition to the many programs Harrison’s Heroes has to serve children staying in area hospitals - which includes birthday boxes, arts and crafts, and events like an in-hospital Polar Express experience around the holidays - Harrison’s Heroes is always expanding the ways in which they serve children to add some joy to their hospital stays.
“I’ve heard from some of the patients caregivers, they didn’t want to come out of their rooms. Now they finally got down here and you can see they didn’t want to leave,” said Sandy Kothari.
KPRC 2 and our Community partners at Energy Transfer, Houston Christian University and Exclusive Furniture helped make this possible.
