Extra Video Footage

Here's the bits and pieces I had to cut out for my video, but still think contain lots of important information. They may be a little out of order.

HUGS Final Project Video

Final Project Parts

The parts to my final project:

Video- Uploaded to the ning page
Bibliography: Under "my files" on my ning page
Reflection: Under "my files" on ning
Blog: http://hugslovee.blogspot.com
(The citations on my blog posts are all messed up so don't mind them, look to the uploaded file on ning.)

disclaimer on citations.

For some reason the URLs in the citations I add at the end of every blog entry do not show up.

Toys Help Children to Learn

Toys offer lots of fun to children, who get excited at the sight of something new, colorful, and tangible for them to play with. But toys also have many benefits to a child's learning. One type of learning that is affected is creative learning. Coloring in a book, doing arts and crafts, or paintings can help to stimulate a child's imagination and creativity. They are also good for developing a child's fine motor skills. another type of learning is physical learning, and this can come through play with balls, small cars and trucks, etc, anything that gets the child moving and active. Playing with these types of toys help the child's physical development. Playing with toys, children learn to develop new skills, and most times the child isn't even aware of this. For example, toys can help a child to learn math and number skills, but often the child is so immersed in the toy they do not realize that they are learning. Many toys are also focused on reading and writing skills, as well as musical skills. Playing with toys from a young age, as you can tell, helps to stimulate a child's learning in many areas. Toys are of great benefit especially to the children who are sick in the hospital because they may miss out on more schooling than other kids their age who are not sick. By missing out on school, these kids obtain less time to learn in class from teachers and learn from interacting with their peers. This is why toy play and my work at the hospital is of benefit to them.


Citation:
"How Do Toys Help Children Learn? - Early Childhood Education (UK)." Comprehensive Information on Early Childhood Education at Early Childhood Education (UK). Early Childhood Education. 9 July 2009 .

http://www.earlychildhoodeducation.co.uk/how-do-toys-help-children-learn.html

Quotes about Hugs

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~Bil Keane, "Family Circus"

I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore

Hugs are the universal medicine. ~Author Unknown

A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. ~Author Unknown

Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today,
because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
~Author Unknown

Citation:

"Hug Quotes, Sayings about Hugs and Hugging." The Quote Garden - Quotes, Sayings, Quotations, Verses. 5 May 2009. 21 July 2009 .

http://www.quotegarden.com/hug.html

Examples of Chronic Illnesses and Statistics

Illnesses:



Addison’s disease
AIDS
Anemia
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Asthma
Cancer
Celiac disease
CFIDS – chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome Coronary heart disease
Crohn’s disease
Cystic fibrosis
Diabetes, types 1 and 2
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Grave’s disease
Guillain Barre Syndrome
Hashimoto's Syndrome
Headache
Interstitial cystitis
Lupus
Lyme disease
Ménière's disease
Multiple sclerosis
Muscular dystrophy
Myasthenia Gravis
Osteoarthritis
Parkinson’s disease
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Scleroderma
Sjogren’s syndrome
Tay-Sachs and Allied diseases
Ulcerative colitis

Statistics:

-About 1 in 3 Americans have a chronic illness (90 million people)
-1,634,976 deaths a year are from the top 5 chronic diseases (heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, and diabetes)
-This is 1,634,976 a year, 136,248 a month, 31,441 a week, 4,479 a day, 186 an hour, an 3 per minute.
-Chronic diseases are estimated to account for 3/4 of all deaths by 2020
-Leukemias and cancers of the brain and central nervous system account for more than half of the childhood cancers
-The causes of childhood cancers are largely unknown.
-In the US in 2007, 10,400 children under the age of 15 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,545 children died from the disease.
-Cancer is the #1 cause of disease related death for children.

Works Cited:
"Chronic Illness List." Chronic Illness Coach Tom Robinson. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.chronicillnesscoach.com/disease_list.html

"Childhood Cancer Statistics." Candle Lighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. Candle Lighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.candlelighters.org/Information/AboutChildhoodCancer/ChildhoodCancerStatistics/tabid/290/Default.aspx

"Statistics about Chronic Illness - WrongDiagnosis.com." Wrong Diagnosis. Health Grades Inc. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/chronic/stats.htm

The Child Health Care Site

What it's all about.
"The Child Health Site is dedicated to funding simple and very effective preventatives and treatments with the goal of robust child health around the globe. Your daily click funds the administration of Vitamin A to prevent life-threatening childhood illness and disease as well as one preventable cause of childhood blindness; the manufacture and fitting of children's prostheses so that a child injured by a landmine or other accident can still walk, run and play and still has a fighting chance to be a productive contributor in his or her society as an adult; eye surgeries that can reverse one kind of childhood blindness; and HIV testing that will alert medical personnel that a mother may pass the infection onto her child at birth so that she can be treated and the newborn spared of this terrible disease. When you click, once per day, every day, you are helping to get these types of treatments and services to the children who need them most."

"On average, over 70,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the blue "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 100 million visitors have helped more than 2,161,000 children."

Works Cited:
"About the Child Health Site." Click to Give @ The Child Health Site. CharityUSA.com, LLC. 05 July 2009 .
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5

Obama's Proposed Health Care Plan

"I suffer no illusions that this will be an easy process. It will be hard. But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough. So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year."
– President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009

Providing quality health care for all Americans is one of President Barack Obama's primary priorities. The number of Americans who are uninsured grows everyday-we need a better system, and soon. The solutions to this problem are to reform the health care system, promoting scientific and technological advancements for medical research, and improving preventative care.

The health care reform legislation that was announced on July 14, 2009, is supposed to "reduce out of control costs, encourage competition among insurance plans to improve choices for patients, and expand access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans." President Obama is going to try to build on the current system: fixing what hasn't worked so well and increasing employer-provided care. The plan is for the new bill to provide 97% of Americans with quality and affordable health care by 2019 and to set up a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers. The goals of this legislation are: to increase choice and competition, improve the quality of care for all Americans, and ensure shared responsibility.

The reform plan is expected to cost between $50 billion to $65 billion a year. The funds to pay for this are believed to come from savings in the health system and from ending the Bush tax cuts on people who earn more than a $250,00 salary per year. Obama organizes his plan into three parts:

"1. Quality, affordable and portable health coverage for all
2. Modernizing the U.S. Health Care System to lower costs and improved quality
3. Promoting prevention and strengthening public health"

He says that his plan will save the average family up to $2,500 every year in health care by:

"* Health information technology investment aimed at reducing unnecessary spending that results from preventable errors and inefficient paper billing systems.
* Improving prevention and management of chronic conditions.
* Increasing insurance industry competition and reducing underwriting costs and profits in order to reduce insurance overhead.
* Providing reinsurance for catastrophic coverage, which will reduce insurance premiums.
* Making health insurance universal which will reduce spending on uncompensated care."

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has even looked into the potential costs and spending for the American health insurance plan, with the positive results that it works! Based off general health principles, the plan should work. France, for example, is able to offer quality health care to everyone at half the price per person we charge now. Results of the research by the Budget Office concluded that extending health care coverage to most all the 45 million people living in America and lacking health insurance will only add a few percent to our national health care bill. The HELP plan is Obama's attempt to have almost universal health care coverage in America through regulation and subsidies. Insurance companies will have to offer the same coverage to all people, and all people will have to buy insurance. Employers also, if they have more than 25 employees, have to offer their workers insurance. If the public wishes not to buy insurance from a private sector, they have the option of choosing a public plan. This creates competition in the health insurance market that is currently a bunch of monopolies. The government says that the whole HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) plan would cost $597 billion over the next decade. This is less than 4% of the $33 trillion dollars the US thinks current health care would cost over the next decade.

VIDEO:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XafSSiKEyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDl6t-iFaTE

Works Cited:

Miller Kittredge, Betsey. "America’s Affordable Health Choices Act." EdLabor Journal. 14 July 2009. Committee on Education and Labor. 21 July 2009 .
http://edlabor.house.gov/blog/2009/07/americas-affordable-health-choices-act.shtml

Laszewski, Robert. "A Detailed Analysis of Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Plan." The Health Care Blog. 21 Mar. 2008. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/03/a-detailed-anal.html

"Health Care." Organizing for America | BarackObama.com. Organizing for America. 21 July 2009 .
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/index.php

Krugman, Paul. "HELP is on the Way." The New York Times (2009). The New York Times. 5 July 2009. 20 July 2009 .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/opinion/06krugman.html?_r=1&em

Coping with Chronic Illnesses

There is an added difficulty to parenting when your child has a chronic illness. A chronic illness is one that lasts for a long time, sometimes even for life. Examples of this type of illness include all forms of cancer, diabetes, and asthma. Stress and uncertainity about health issues regarding your child consume your daily life when you are a parent of a sick kid.

I found two websites that had some good tips for parents of ill children. Below is a simplified list of the tips they discussed. For more information, follow the links.

After the Diagnosis
-keep positive, learn about your child's illness, explain it to the child, find other parents and children going through the same thing

To Help Your Child
-communicate with them, give them choices, support their activities with peers, give them responsibilities, be mindful of what the child can overhear, look for role models

Helping the Family Cope
-have a routine and stick to it, keep communication going between all family members, remember your other children

Taking Care of Yourself
-take time off to yourself, make you use of people willing to help, take use of respite care

Works Cited:
Zolten, Kristen. "Coping with chronic illness." Center for Effective Parenting | Arkansas Parenting | Parent Resources. 1997. 16 July 2009 http://www.parenting-ed.org/handout3/Specific%20Concerns%20and%20Problems/coping%20with%20chronic%20illness.htm.

Churchill, Melanie. "Chronic Illness among Children." Forever Families. 16 July 2009 http://www.foreverfamilies.net/xml/articles/children_with_chronic_illness.aspx.

Play Therapy

Play therapy is a method of psychotherapy used with children to help them resolve emotional traumas. When I visit the HUGS children in the hospital, in a way I am making use of this therapy. I wheel in my bag of toys and interact with the sick kids. Having a chronic illness and staying in the stuffy, hospital rooms are no fun for them, and having time to play with toys or engage in activities with volunteers help to relieve them of thoughts about their sickness.

Kraft, Irvin A. “Play Therapy.” Encyclopedia Americana. 2009. Grolier Online. 5 July. 2009. http://ea.grolier.com/article?id=0315630-00.

Hospitals aren't the most fun places for young children or their families to be. When you're little, all you want to be doing is running around, exploring, and playing with other children. Hospitals are foreign places and feel nothing like home. Being hospitalized, and being ill can produce stress in anyone, especially children. Studies have proved that hospital experiences have the potential to negatively impact a child's development, such as inhibit growth and development or slow down rehabilitation and recuperation. Hospitalized children can be prevented from developing stress, anxiety, or depression through play. Play is a way to help reduce the stress of these ill children, and distract them from the emotional and physical burdens of being sick.

"Educational Play Therapy : About Educational Play Therapy." The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) : Welcome to the Royal Children's Hospital. 11 Dec. 2008. Webmaster. 16 July 2009 http://www.rch.org.au/ept/index.cfm?doc_id=1175.

The Hawaii Foodbank: in the news

Here are some articles from the past two years about the HFB.

David, Mari-Ela. "Charities Struggle to feel the need." KHNLHD 10 Oct. 2008. WorldNow. 15 July 2009 <http://www.khnl.com/global/story.asp?s=9162862.>

October 10, 2008:
At this time in 2008, donations for the food bank had seen a major decline. Shelves once full with food were bare. Most likely an effect of the financial crisis and downward trend of the economy. The cost of living and layoffs increasing led to a decline in the amount of donations to the Foodbank, a decline in supply. However at the same time there was an increase in demand as new families, middle class people who had recently lost jobs, were turning to the Foodbank for help. The Hawaii Foodbank was down 4% in donations but up 8% in demand. The Foodbank relied on the generosity of the people of Hawaii to keep them running and serving the 250 agencies who relied on them during this time.

Au, Laurie. "Scramble to make ends meet begins at local food pantries." The Honolulu Star Bulletin 12 Dec. 2008. 15 July 2009. http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20081212_Scramble_to_make_ends_meet_begins_at_local_food_pantries.html#fullstory".

December 12, 2008:
Given the situation of the economy, with fewer jobs and higher prices, more and more people are showing up at the doors of Hawaii's non-profits.
The Foodbank's donations plunged from 2007 to 2008 by 200,000 pounds. They haven't had to turn families away, but they have given less food and food of lower quality. They've allocated $200,000 of their budget and more funding from the government to get more food.

Drewes, Paul. "Leftovers for the Hawaii Foodbank." KHNLHD 9 July 2009. WorldNow. 15 July 2009. http://www.khnl.com/global/story.asp?s=10673885.

July 9, 2009:
Daily distribution has gone from 34,000 pounds of food a day to 41,000, said Dick Grimm, President of the Hawaii Foodbank. But because the demand has increased, the shelves are emptier. The warehouse is full of 12-14 days worth of inventory rather than the normal 25-30 days worth of food.
They were just given a generous donation of $78,000, leftovers from a class action lawsuit against Lex Brodie's.
The money is going to be used to help fill up the Foodbank.

HFB Facts

• 95% of their funds go towards food collection and distribution, and 5% go to administration and fundraising costs.
• Donations to the foodbank feed 131,862 people in Hawaii each year: 32,965 are children. 14,504 are elderly.

Citation:

"Hawaii Foodbank - Hunger Facts." Hawaii Foodbank - Home. 15 July 2009 .

The Hawaii Foodbank Summary

The Hawaii Foodbank mission statement:
"The people of Hawaii are one ohana. The Hawaii Foodbank provides food so that no one in our family goes hungry. We work to gather food and support from our communities. We then distribute food through charitable agencies to those in need. Our mission is from the heart, and we will fulfill our mission with integrity, humanity and aloha."

The Hawaii Foodbank is a non profit agency who serves the people of Hawaii through their member agencies. The Foodbank collects, sorts, stores, and distributes perishable and non-perishable foods to their 250 member agencies, one of which is HUGS. The Foodbank is a link between the food donors (about 300) and the partner agencies who further deliver the foods to those in need. Those who benefit from the Hawaii Foodbank include the hungry elderly, children, low-income families, homeless, disabled, temporarily unemployed and those in financial crisis.

In 2008, the Hawaii Foodbank distributed 8.2 million pounds of food, as well as 1.6 million pounds of fresh fruits and veggies distributed through the Foodbank's Ohana Produce Program.

In 2008, food donations and foods distributed had increased greatly. Donations equaled 9,953,123 pouns (+1,168,761 since 2007) and distribution totaled 8,681,116 pounds (+1,060,187 pounds from 2007). This means that 6,835,524 meals were distributed in 2008.

Given the times in Hawaii in 2008, higher price of living, Hawaii businesses closing, member agencies of the foodbank had substantial increases in the number clients needing to be served. It was a challenge to secure enough food, and this is why the increased number of food donations was so valuable. To solve the problem of high demand and low supply, sometimes the amounts of food distributed to families had to be decreased, or sent in search of help to another agency.

For 2009, the goal was to collect 10 million pounds of food and to distribute at least 8.8 million pounds of food. Twice the amount of funds were set aside for food purchases ($200,000), but because food prices increased, basically the same amount of food was obtained. Since food prices were higher, people in the community spent less, thus food retailers ordered a smaller quantity of items for their inventory, and food manufacturers made less in order to save money. Less food being made meant fewer donations for the Foodbank.

To counter challenges such as these, members from the Product Resourcing Committee were frequently visiting local farmers and food retailers/wholesalers to be sure all possible food donations were being made to the Foodbank. The Foodbank looked for more food donors and kept relations good with the current ones.

Citation:

"Hawaii Foodbank - Hunger Facts." Hawaii Foodbank - Home. 15 July 2009 http://www.hawaiifoodbank.org/page18.aspx.

"Hawaii Foodbank Mission." Hawaii Foodbank - Home. 15 July 2009 http://www.hawaiifoodbank.org/page1000.aspx.

"Hawaii Foodbank - What We Do." Hawaii Foodbank - Home. 15 July 2009 .

HUGS Informational Video Clips

More information about HUGS in the form of these movie clips of interviews:
http://www.kaimukihawaii.com/news/200904/2049.html

(all 4 parts of the video are located at the bottom of this blog under my posts as well.)

What is HUGS?

HUGS is a local, non-profit organization that stands for help, understanding, and group support. HUGS' mission statement is, “providing support, compassion and aloha to keep families with seriously ill children together.” They, “accept [their] families exactly where they are...at their present emotional, physical or spiritual level.” The only membership requirement is that the family has a child with a life threatening illness. HUGS provides all services and programs free of charge to their families. The founders of HUGS recognized that families with seriously ill children have to deal with many more challenges than normal families, and this puts the whole population at risk. These families have high divorce rates and are burdened with the stress of financial, spiritual, and emotional issues that come with their child's sickness. The illness of the child not only affects themselves, but their other family members as well. For this reason, HUGS has aimed to create holistic programs that support all members of the family. Most of the children survive through their illnesses and stay with the organization past their recovery until they are ready to move on. HUGS is not a typical support group. It is a place of joy where families can come for peer-to-peer support, fun and family orientated activities.

Family Events
HUGS offers many programs to its families. The family events include dinners, holiday parties, Celebration of Life, and recreational outings. All events come at no cost to the families and are adjusted to accommodate all families and their specific needs. They are created for families to have fun, relax, meet other families in similar situations, spend quality time together, and make new friends.

The dinners are held once a month at the HUGS house and include food and informal entertainment. The parents get a time to relax and the child get time to have fun with other kids. Occasionally, the dinners are held elsewhere such as the Waikiki Aquarium, Punahou School, and the Honolulu Zoo.

Celebration of Life is held annually to commemorate the HUGS children who have passed away in the past year. There is a remembrance ceremony to reflect on the children who have passed on. The environment is very supportive at this event. After the ceremony beings the celebration of life. Families share their old stories and begin to make new ones.

The Holiday Parties are fun for the kids and time for the adults to mingle. During the holidays, families with seriously ill child normally have additional stress induced by many possible issues: time, money, ill child, siblings, coping with a loss, and/or the feeling that they are supposed to be happy. HUGS tries to make the holidays a time of joy for these families by holding these parties for their members.

Peer Groups
HUGS believes in peer-to-peer support. The organization brings families together who are facing similar situations so that they can see that they are not the only ones dealing with rough issues. Together, through events provided free of charge by HUGS, families can expand their support network and meet other people who they can relate to and vice versa. The peer group activities are aimed to bring families together and prevent them from feelings of isolation. Mom's night occurs once a month. It is a time where mothers from all over can gather for a time of relaxation and bonding, and provide support to each other. Dad's night also occurs monthly. Both the HUGS moms and dads enjoy this time to themselves, separated from the stress of having a seriously ill child that seems to consume them 24/7. Activities they engage in include scrap booking, facials, movies, dinners, and plays for the mothers, and massages, dinners, and movies for the dads. HUGS also manages a Teen group for peer support among the sick adolescents who are dealing with more stresses than average kids of their age. Activities that they have participated in during the past include submarine rides, bowling, laser tag, lunches, and movies.

Respites
Respites occur twice a month at the HUGS house, for blocks of four hours on Friday nights. These respites benefit both the children and the parents or guardians. The children's guardians leave their children in the trusted care of HUGS volunteers at the HUGS house in Kaimuki for the night. During this time, they are able to take care of any personal business that they normally have no time to focus on. These respites provides short periods of rest for the parents. The children left to play at the house get special one on one attention from the volunteers who engage all the children, sick or siblings of the sick, in an activity, whether it be playing outside on the swing set or play structure, or a game of Wii or Trouble in the house. When it gets dark, all children and volunteers are called inside for dinner.

HUGS also provides an emergency respite service to the families at the house, Monday through Friday during the work hours, provided that a HUGS staff member is present. The families do not tend to use this service often but in times of emergency it is a really valuable resource to them.

Laughter Wagon
The Laughter Wagon Program, the one I have been assigned to for the community service portion of my class, is run at Kapiolani Medical Center and Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center for HUGS children in the pediatric ward. Trained volunteers visit the inpatients with their backpack of toys, and engage them and their siblings in play and activities. The purpose of this program is to reduce their stress and anxiety built up from being hospitalized for so long. The parents are also provided with a brief break to leave the room and get some fresh air or take care of any personal needs, if necessary.

Silver Lining
The HUGS Silver Lining Toy Chest programs is run at Kapiolani Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua, and Tripler Army Medical Center. The chests are stocked with small toys and movie tickets. After a HUGS child has gone through a painful medical procedure, they have the joy of picking out a new toy from the toy chest. These toys offer a distraction from the pain after a recent procedure, and are also something for the children to look forward to after their treatments if they are aware of them.

Financial
HUGS has a couple of major funds to help out their families during times of financial need. One of them is The Maldondo Airfare Fund, established in 1996. It provides emergency airfare assistance to families in a medical crisis. It pays for the parents to travel with their child traveling for a treatment. HUGS believes that it is important to keep families together during times of medical crisis for support. The airfare fund is capped at $2000 per family per year because of financial necessity.

When HUGS expanded its neighbor island outreach program, the demand for on the HUGS airfare fund increased. Thus came of the Neighbor Island Outreach Fund. The demographics of HUGS families fluctuates, so some years the airfare fund is highly used by active duty military, and others it is more used by civilians.

In 1985, the HUGS Kokua Kupboard food box program was founded. This program supplements families with food products periodically and in emergency based on need. HUGS receives donations from the Hawaii Foodbank and community organizations. The costs of care of sick children are very expensive and use up many families incomes. Their financial problems lead to stress and anxiety. HUGS tries to assist these struggling families by at least ensuring that they have food on the table.

HUGS is partnered with the Hawaii Sand Play Council, and for this reason HUGS Sand Play Therapy is a program available to the HUGS children free of cost. The children have the opportunity to express themselves non-verbally in a therapeutic setting. Children with illnesses and undergoing treatment can have a lot of resentment, fear, anxiety, sadness, and loneliness with no outlet. With the help of trained therapists they can work out their feelings. Financial support for this program is provided from the the Jack and Chonita Larsen Fund.

The HUGS Funeral Expense Fund is for those families who after years of financial and emotional struggles, lose their child and have no way to pay for the funeral expenses. It was created in the year 2000, and is capped at $1000 per family.

Volunteers
HUGS has more than 90 volunteers who help to support the HUGS children, but they are always looking for new ones. Volunteers may participate in respites, family dinners, the Laughter Wagon program, office support, special events and recreational outings.

Donations
Money donations can be made online or by mail. HUGS also takes car, clothing, canned foods, toys, and household items donations. If interested one should contact the HUGS house prior to any collections or drop offs.

Citation:
"HUGS." HUGS, Help, Understanding & Group Support. 12 July 2009 <http://www.hugslove.org/index.php>.

Blog Dedication

This blog is dedicated to my final project for the summer '09 capSEEDS class. Here is where I will post entries of the research I will conduct that deals with topics related to my final project.

For the action portion of my final project I decided to organize a toy & canned foods drive in my community on behalf of the HUGS organization. HUGS is a local, non-profit organization whose mission is to provide support to children with life threatening illnesses and their families. The toy donations will be collected and donated to the Laughter Wagon and Silver Lining program, both of which are run by HUGS at Kapiolani Hospital for the sick children. The canned foods will be donated to the HUGS house which has been noticing a decline in supply due to the current struggling conditions of the Hawaii Food Bank.

This blog will supplement the short video I will be making about the HUGS organization and my action.