Shifting youngsters round hospitals is a sophisticated process. They’re hooked as much as all types of machines, and it is exhausting to inform playful little ones to wander round calmly and quietly in a state of affairs that’d be too troublesome for many adults to bear.
A person named Roger Leggett took discover of this whereas his granddaughter was within the hospital preventing a mind tumor. He determined that there needed to be a greater strategy to safely transport these kiddos and nonetheless assist them really feel like regular youngsters. Leggett and his son, Chad, began constructing little pink wagons with IV poles in them. Sadly, Chad died of a heatstroke shortly after they started the undertaking, and Roger had all however given up on the endeavor as a result of he was heartbroken.
That is when his colleagues at Lockheed Martin stepped in to lend a serving to hand. The wagons have grow to be extremely in style in youngsters’s hospitals within the Atlanta space, and even around the globe!
After dropping his son, Roger virtually gave up on the wagon venture. Luckily, some sort buddies stepped in to assist him.
The purple wagons have turn out to be successful in youngsters’s hospitals throughout the nation! The youngsters cannot get sufficient of them, they usually convey a lot pleasure into their lives.
(by way of NBC News)
Even within the face of tragedy, Roger Leggett discovered a method to assist individuals in his group. That is what being a Good Samaritan is all about.
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