The Home Depot Helps the

Academy of Kempo’s “Help a Child Initiative”

Making a difference in children’s lives!

Pictured above is Erica Schwartz, a Child Life Specialist-Pediatric Specialty at Yale New Haven Children’s Cancer Center, accepting a donation from Frank and Hailey Ciarleglio.

The Help a Child Initiative is a program started by Frank Ciarleglio, the Instructor at the Academy of Kempo Martial Arts to help children with life threatening diseases. “Our program is designed to  collect item such as arts and crafts and general items needed to assist “The Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer” and the Child Life Specialist-Pediatric Specialty Clinic at the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital” said Ciarleglio.

The Home Depot located on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden generously donated just over a case of kits to the Help a Child Initiative. The kits that The Home Depot donated will help to bring a little bit of normalcy to the children’s lives. “It is very difficult when anyone is dealing with a life threatening illness, but much more so to see children going through it. Being a parent of a child undergoing treatments I see firsthand how the items we collect affect the children and their parents. The smiles and laughs that are seen and heard in the clinic as the children do their crafts (which are 100 percent donated items) brings joy to everyone hearts” said Ciarleglio.

Follow  the link below for a list of items we are collecting as well as a wish list from the Child Life Specialist-Pediatric Specialty Clinic.. “I know that in these economically challenging times that it is hard for people to find anything extra in their budget, but even one item will help to make a difference,” Ciarleglio said.

All products can be dropped off at the Academy of Kempo Martial Arts, located at 1890 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden Connecticut 06514.

Monetary contributions are welcome in check form made out to the Tommy Fund or by visiting the Tommy Fund web site at www.tommyfund.org.

Click Here To Read The Quad Town Newspaper Article

Click Here For A Detailed List of Arts and Crafts

Click Here For the Child Life Wish List

Click Here For To Go To "The Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer"

Click Here For To Go To Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

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