KING TWINS PROVIDE ANNUAL DONATION TO FMH FOUNDATION
Donations come in all shapes and sizes to Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, and youngsters are also learning the gift of giving. Alex and Kimberly King’s two sons Alex and Adrien King (age 11) wished to donate their birthday money again this year. They donated $100 each to “help the local hospital and its patients.”
“It is exciting to see young people giving during the giving season. These two young men are helping to grow the corpus of our funds within the Foundation. This year’s donation is being added to the donation they gave last year. They seemed excited to learn that if they match this year’s donation next year, they will be placed on our Donor Wall of Honor,” stated Charlotte St.Ledger, FMH Foundation Executive Director.
Alex and Adrien are both interested in working the medical field one day and understand that they will likely see how their investment will ensure health care excellence of the future.
“Alex and Adrien’s gifts have arrived during a time when the FMH Foundation is in the midst of the Annual Giving Letter Campaign. The Annual Giving Campaign is kicked off in November of each year around Thanksgiving and this year many donors have already given their annual gift, but there are always donations that come in through the first of the year,” stated St.Ledger.
Parents, Alex and Kimberly King, are employed by Fairfield Memorial Hospital as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and often share with their children the many blessings the hospital provides the patients and the local community.
Pictured are Alex and Adrien King presenting their donation to Charlotte St.Ledger, FMH Foundation Executive Director.
(the big boys donate 1/2 of the money they recieve for their birthday and we match it)
Donations come in all shapes and sizes to Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, and youngsters are also learning the gift of giving. Alex and Kimberly King’s two sons Alex and Adrien King (age 11) wished to donate their birthday money again this year. They donated $100 each to “help the local hospital and its patients.”
“It is exciting to see young people giving during the giving season. These two young men are helping to grow the corpus of our funds within the Foundation. This year’s donation is being added to the donation they gave last year. They seemed excited to learn that if they match this year’s donation next year, they will be placed on our Donor Wall of Honor,” stated Charlotte St.Ledger, FMH Foundation Executive Director.
Alex and Adrien are both interested in working the medical field one day and understand that they will likely see how their investment will ensure health care excellence of the future.
“Alex and Adrien’s gifts have arrived during a time when the FMH Foundation is in the midst of the Annual Giving Letter Campaign. The Annual Giving Campaign is kicked off in November of each year around Thanksgiving and this year many donors have already given their annual gift, but there are always donations that come in through the first of the year,” stated St.Ledger.
Parents, Alex and Kimberly King, are employed by Fairfield Memorial Hospital as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and often share with their children the many blessings the hospital provides the patients and the local community.
Pictured are Alex and Adrien King presenting their donation to Charlotte St.Ledger, FMH Foundation Executive Director.
4 comments:
You are raising such kind, caring children. Congratulations to them and to you. Merry Christmas to everyone! Elaine
That is great. if they give "half their birthday money" does that mean they get $200 for their birthday? Wow. Our kids maybe get $20 a yr in gifts...we also work at the hospital. That is nice they donate it. But if its only half and they keep $100..it's not as if they are really making any sacrifices
I believe that anytime a child 'gives' anything, rather than 'take', is wonderful. Making a donation is an amazing learning experience. And any amount of donation given by anyone IS a sacrifice; it's choosing to give to someone else something that you could have for yourself. I don't think that any donation could be belittled in any way.
However, just to clarify (but not make excuse for), the big boys did receive $100 each for their birthday. Most of which did come from their grandma (in lieu of a present this year. They each donated $50 and we matched it for a total of $100 donation for each.
Kim you are doing a fabulous job raising such thoughtful kids. I think ANY donation should be seen as a gift, especially from a child!
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