HOW TO MAKE A CHILD SMILE

Students from The Stony Brook School recently participated in a service project to "make a child smile." Students collectively wrote letters and made cards for children with severe/chronic life-threatening illnesses. The correspondence was placed in the postal mail sent directly to the children.

This philanthropic project stems from the Make A Child Smile (MACS) organization which features monthly stories on courageous children with life-threatening illnesses. The MACS organization provides emotional and financial support to families going through these trials. The website enables people to learn about the children's stories. The site also gives people the ability to show their care and concern by sending cards and letters to the featured children. The cards not only make the children feel "warm and fuzzy" inside, but they touch the whole family knowing that there are strangers who care and send their love and support.

"It's not how much we do . . . but how much love we put into doing it" (MACS).

For more information and to read the kids' stories, please visit www.MakeAChildSmile.org.

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