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November 2, 2020Celebrate Hatsgiving with Capital Region BOCES Career and Tech – Help Childhood Cancer Fighters!
Students at Capital Region BOCES are collecting hats to help children doing battle with childhood cancer.
Career and Technical School students at the Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) started the Hatsgiving effort and are now joined by students in the SkillsUSA organization on the Albany Campus. Donations of new or handmade hats suitable for the winter months, sizes Newborn to adult, will be accepted. The donations will in turn be donated to children going through chemotherapy.
Donation boxes available in the office, the Campus Store and the Café. Collections will continue until Nov. 19 on the Albany Campus and Nov. 20 at the Center for Advanced Technology. Anyone wishing to donate can send hats in with students on either of the campuses.
CAT Nurse Jennifer Guy Brennan started the collection in recognition of the fight her own daughter, 17-year-old Jada, waged with leukemia on two separate occasions.
“Jada has been in remission for 10 years now thanks to the Albany Medical Center Pediatric Oncology team and I’m looking to give back!,” she said.
“Hatsgiving” was started by a North Colonie elementary student who is now almost 17 years old. The non-profit collected more than 6,400 hats last year, shipping them to 60 hospitals in 43 states and the nation’s capital for kids near and far undergoing chemotherapy.
