Donation to Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center
DonnaBellas Angels donated multiple items to the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston. Donations have included the following:
Donation of art prints that were framed and displayed in the respite room.
Donation of art postcards that staff can distribute to patients and caregivers.
Donation of art prints that were given to patients and their caregivers.
Permission to use "Colorful Cancer Angel" painting on a t-shirt. The shirt was sold to fundraise to buy items for the respite room and the "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) Cart.
The clinic has a memory garden for children who have passed. They staff write their names on a rock and the angel prints are placed to watch over their memory of these little patients. DonnaBellas Angels art was placed in the respite room next to the rock garden.
It is the mission of DonnaBellas Angels to provide inspirational healing art . We used donations to help cover the cost of producing original art, and art prints so they can be made available at no cost or with a minimal fee to medical clinics.
“We had an 18 month old patient who we had taken care of since he was 4 months old. His health was rapidly declining and many of us started to prepare for the worse. There isn't much that can comfort you in these types of situations. However, the nurses went through artwork that was donated by DonnaBellas Angels and found a piece that we knew would be perfect. It was a painting of an angel holding a baby in the sky over several small houses. We placed the artwork above his head on his crib until the day he passed away. All of us finally found comfort in seeing that in this picture, we could see our little boy being taken to a better place by a sweet angel. Now knowing he was without any pain or suffering. We keep that same picture in our respite room as a constant reminder of him and how much we all miss him. Thank you to the whole DonnaBellas Angels family for providing this comfort to us!”
-Lindsey Zaremba, Pediatric Nurse Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center
Care of the Soul Angel Art Painting that the pediatric nurse used in comforting her patient