Care Pears.Six years ago, 9-year-old Caitlin Phelan's eyes welled up with tears as she and her mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. caught part of a news program on homeless children in America. As Robin Phelan watched her daughter gripping her teddy bear teddy bear cuddly commodity named after President Theodore Roosevelt. [Am. Hist.: Frank, 46] See : Cuteness , an idea came to her. If this teddy bear gives her daughter so much comfort, imagine how children who have nothing might react. So, Robin and Caitlin set up the Teddy Bear Foundation, which donates teddy bears to homeless children in and around Boston. Since 1996, they've handed out over 9,000 teddies. The bears are collected at local fire and police departments in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. , but you can donate
too. Caitlin, now 15, and her mom want to set up Teddy Bear Projects
across the nation. Sometimes, making a big difference bearly takes any
effort. Look around, you might be snuggling with a slice of hope right
now. Wanna wan·na Informal 1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now? 2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? donate? Go to teddybeardrive.org. |
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